Overview

The Mi-V ecosystem is a suite of tools and design resources that supports our RISC-V initiatives. Co-developed with industry leaders and communities, the Mi-V ecosystem offers commercial and open-source operating systems, development tools, middleware, IP, hardware and design services. Explore our Mi-V ecosystem to accelerate your time to market for RISC-V designs.

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Mi-V Development Platforms


Our Mi-V ecosystem supports development using our RISC-V SoC FPGAs and soft CPUs.

PolarFire® SoC FPGAs

Our PolarFire SoC FPGAs contain:

  • A five-core, 64-bit RISC-V processor
  •  Deterministic and coherent  L2 memory subsystem
  • A unique AMP mode for mixed real-time and Linux® operation

They are also:

  • Architecture and process optimized for mid-range applications
  • Transceiver performance optimized for 12.7 Gbps
  • Low power and high performance
  • Thermally efficient (consume half the power of competitive FPGAs)

Mi-V Soft CPUs

Our soft CPUs are:

  • 32-bit, RISC-V ISA compliant
  • Able to be implemented on our PolarFire, RTG4™ and IGLOO® 2 FPGAs

They also contain:

  • Four soft CPU cores ranging from 4– 26 KLE
  • CoreMark® scores of upto 2.48
  • Configurable options for cache, tightly coupled memory, debug, interfaces, error correction and more

Released under the Apache 2.0 license, they are available through Libero® SoC Design Suite.

Mi-V Ecosystem


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Mi-V Ecosystem

Ashling is a leading provider of Embedded Development Tools and Services for RISC-V architectures. They provide RiscFree™ IDE, Debugger and Opella-XD Debug Probe support for Plolarfire SOC. 

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Mi-V Ecosystem

MathWorks® corporation specializes in mathematical computing software. MathWorks Embedded Coder® supports PolarFire SoCs.

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IAR Systems provides IAR Embedded Workbench®, an integrated development environment for building and debugging embedded applications using C and C++. IAR Embedded Workbench support will be available for PolarFire SoCs.

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AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, C and C++, helping you build safe, secure and reliable software that matters. AdaCore’s GNAT Pro now supports PolarFire SoCs.

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Mi-V Ecosystem

Green Hills Software is the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security applications. They support SoC FPGAs with their MULTI® IDE, Green Hills Probe V4, INTEGRITY RTOS and µ-velOSity RTOS.

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Mi-V Ecosystem

Lauterbach is the world's largest producer of complete, modular and upgradeable microprocessor development tools worldwide with experience in making world-class debuggers and real-time trace. Lauterbach debug and trace tool support is available for PolarFire SoCs.

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Mi-V Ecosystem

Siemens Embedded enables embedded development for a variety of applications including automotive, industrial, smart energy, medical devices and consumer electronics with their Linux products, including and Nucleus® RTOS.

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The VectorCAST embedded software testing platform is a family of products that automates testing activities across the software development lifecycle. VectorCAST 2024 SP1 now supports PolarFire SoC FPGAs and Renode.

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Mi-V Ecosystem

iSYSTEM, part of the TASKING Group, manufactures debugging and Flash programming tools. PolarFire SoC FPGAs are now supported by iSYSTEM’s winIDEA IDE and iC7mini hardware debugger.

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LDRA is a provider of software quality, compliance management and testing solutions. LDRA’s tool suite enables the development and certification of safety- and security-critical software for industries such as automotive, aerospace and defense, medical and industrial.

Support


Mi-V Partner Information 

Please contact partners directly for more information.

For additional support, please contact MiV@microchip.com.

Technical Support

Visit our technical support portal for assistance with your PolarFire SoC FPGA-based design.

GitHub Discussions

Try our discussions forum on our GitHub page. Browse the available database of questions and answers, post your questions and support others in the discussions. 

Events and Webinars


RISC-V Innovation Unleashed Webinar Series

Learn how to get started with the PolarFire® SoC FPGA, the world’s first RISC-V based SoC FPGA, to create fully deterministic, real-time systems alongside the Linux® operating system.

Mi-V Ecosystem Unleashed Webinar Series

Mi-V Ecosystem Unleashed is a technical webinar series that showcases the various offerings for PolarFire® SoC FPGAs from Microchip and our Mi-V ecosystem partners.

Mi-V Summit

The Mi-V Virtual Summit Conference delivers engaging content about solutions, hardware, tools and Intellectual Property (IP) that are available for the PolarFire® SoC FPGA family.

Training and Videos


Learn how to get started with our PolarFire SoC FPGAs, the world’s first RISC-V-based SoC FPGA, to create fully deterministic, real-time systems alongside the Linux operating system. Watch the webinars below for an introduction to the free Renode development platform from Mi-V partner Antmicro that is available with our SoftConsole v6.2 software development environment. You will watch demo applications, learn how to create projects and discover how to set up and configure your own systems with the new SoC FPGA architecture. Additionally, check out our PolarFire SoC FPGA YouTube playlist.

Our Mi-V Partners Discuss the Growing RISC-V Ecosystem

The ecosystem for the open-standard RISC-V ISA is gaining momentum. Watch what some of our Mi-V partners, including SiFive and Wind River, have to say about RISC-V’s growing momentum.

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