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Working With the Microchip PolarFire® SoC FPGA Using SEGGER Development Tools and Debug Probes

By June 24, 2025August 12th, 2025No Comments2 min read
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The PolarFire® SoC family offers the industry’s first RISC-V based System-on-Chip Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (SoC FPGAs), delivering a combination of low power consumption, thermal efficiency and defense-grade security for smart, connected systems. For embedded developers working with the RISC-V microprocessor subsystem on these devices, SEGGER offers a variety of development tools and debug probes.

Some things just become even better when you combine them, like bricks and mortar, movies and popcorn, or cookies and milk. With the PolarFire® SoC family, Microchip has combined a powerful 64-bit 5-core RISC-V Microprocessor Sub-System (MSS) with the PolarFire FPGA fabric in a single device. Packed with this powerful combination, PolarFire SoC devices offer the scalable features of FPGAs and high-performance of ASICs. Only the FPGA fabric resources vary and the MSS remains the same across PolarFire SoC device variants, making these devices ideal for a variety of applications.

Another great combination is an innovative SoC and a powerful debug probe. SEGGER J-Links are the most widely used line of debug probes on the market. They have provided solid value to embedded development for over 20 years. Unparalleled performance, an extensive feature set, many supported CPUs and compatibility with popular development environments all make J-Link an unbeatable choice.

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