RCHD-PF

Compact System on Module based on Microchip PolarFire® SoC FPGA.

Compact System on Module based on Microchip PolarFire® SoC FPGA.

Highly scalable System-on-Module, capable of performant and extremely efficient digital signal processing.

Ideal for FPGA-specific loads like video processing, imaging, artificial intelligence, deep packet inspection, advanced sensor fusion, and Operational Technology systems supervision - all in real-time.

Orchid is accompanied by an evaluation board that provides access to most of Orchid’s features in a standard PCIe card form factor.

  • 5 core RISC-V 667 MHz
  • FPGA up to 254K logic elements
  • up to 8GB RAM
  • up to 64GB eMMC
  • High speed IO
  • Numerous buses and interfaces
  • Real-time signal processing
  • Evaluation board available
SoC Microchip PolarFire® FPGA SoC
CPU Architecture
  • RISC-V, 667 MHz, 5 cores
  • 4x RV64GC application cores
  • 1x RV64IMAC monitor/boot core
  • Performance: 3.125 CoreMarks/MHz, 1.714 DMIPS/MHz
FPGA
  • Microchip PolarFire® SoC, full coverage of the FCVG484 package:
  • MPFS025T - 23k logic elements
  • MPFS095T - 93k logic elements
  • MPFS160T - 161k logic elements
  • MPFS250T - 254k logic elements
Memory LPDDR4 (512 MB, 1, 2, 4 or 8GB) 1600 MT/s
Mass storage
  • eMMC 5.0 (4-64 GB)
  • 4 KB EEPROM
  • NOR Flash memory (32 MB) for FPGA configuration
  • Ethernet
    • 1x 10/100/1000 Ethernet PHY
    • 1x 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC (SGMII interface)
    PCIe PCIe 2.0 up to x4
    USB 1x USB 2.0 OTG
    Debug
    • Conclusive Developer Cable connector providing access to:
    • System UART
    • JTAG port
    • System I2C bus
    Software support
    • Linux 4.14 to 5.16 and newer
    • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
    • U-Boot
    • Buildroot
    • Yocto and other distributions on request
    • FreeBSD 13 on request
    • FreeRTOS
    • Zephyr
    Additional features
    • 802.11/b/g/n WiFi with u.fl antenna connector (optional)
    • RTC with external battery back-up
    • 30 high speed differential GPIO / 60 high speed single ended GPIO
    • 32 differential GPIO / 64 single ended GPIO
    • 4 XCVR bidirectional lanes (12.3Gbps)
    • 32MB Flash NOR memory
    Operating Temperature –40 °C to 85 °C
    Power supply single 3.3V 12A
    Dimensions 65x45 mm

    RCHD-PF is applicable for:

    • Operational Technology and Industrial Control Systems
    • Imaging and Video Processing
    • Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)
    • Internet of Things (IoT)
    • Industrial Automation
    • Automotive
    • Aerospace and Defense
    • Wireline Access Networks
    • Cellular Infrastructure