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They've had some design wins. For instance, the new PolarFire SoC FPGA-plus-CPU systems from Microsemi (recently bought by Microchip) use two SiFive designs, a
by throwaway86783 6y ago
They've had some design wins. For instance, the new PolarFire SoC FPGA-plus-CPU systems from Microsemi (recently bought by Microchip) use two SiFive designs, a simple microcontroller-like core and a quad-core application processor: https://www.microsemi.com/document-portal/doc_download/1244584-polarfire-soc-product-overview https://www.microsemi.com/document-portal/doc_download/12445....
- rjsw 6y agoThere is also a dev kit for this [1], could use more RAM though. [1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/microchip/polarfire-soc-icicle-kit https://www.crowdsupply.com/microchip/polarfire-soc-icicle-k...
- ansible 6y agoYeah, I was looking at that. At $500 USD, that's a little outside of what I'd want to spend on something like that. I'm still thinking about it though.
- bpye 6y agoI really wish they just used a (SO)DIMM slot but there we go. Still tempted to get one, the dual NICs and FPGA fabric could make an interesting network gateway. I’d wonder what throughput you could get if you used the FPGA for routing and maybe even some inspection.