Microchip Technology launched the PolarFire® SoC Discovery Kit, a user-friendly, feature-rich RISC-V-based processor for embedded industry applications, supporting Linux and real-time applications.

Microchip Technology, a global semiconductor company, has recently launched the PolarFire® SoC Discovery Kit to address the rising demand for open-source RISC-V-based processor architectures in the embedded industry. The kit is designed to be user-friendly and feature-rich, making it more accessible to engineers at all levels. It includes a quad-core RISC-V application-class processor, supports Linux® and real-time applications, a rich set of peripherals, and 95K of low-power, high-performance FPGA logic elements. This full-featured and low-cost kit allows rapid testing of application concepts, developing firmware applications, programming, and more, ultimately making emerging technologies more accessible to a wider range of embedded engineers.

February 15, 2024
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