Getting Started
UG0786 User Guide Revision 1.0
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Getting Started
The Microsemi PolarFire
®
FPGA Splash Kit (MPF300-SPLASH-KIT) is an RoHS-compliant, cost-
optimized kit with general-purpose interfaces that enables you to evaluate the basic features of the
PolarFire family of FPGAs. The PolarFire Splash Kit supports the following interfaces:
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PCI Express Gen1 and Gen2
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1 GbE
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DDR4 memory
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FMC LPC with one transceiver lane
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UART interface to FTDI device
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SPI interface to SPI flash device
The PolarFire device is programmed using the on-board FlashPro5 programmer. The on-board
FlashPro5 programmer is used to develop and debug embedded applications using SoftConsole,
Identify, or SmartDebug.
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Kit Contents
The following table lists the contents of the PolarFire Splash Kit.
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Kit Contents
Item
Quantity
PolarFire Splash Board featuring the MPF300TS-1FCG484EES
device with 300K logic elements
1
12 V/5 A wall-mounted power adapter
1
USB 2.0 A male to mini-USB B cable for UART/power interface
(up to 1 A) to PC
1
Quickstart card
1
One-year Libero
®
Gold software license
1
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License value USD 995. Supports PolarFire 100K LE devices, 200K LE devices, and
the MPF300TS-1FCG1152I/EES and MPF300TS-1FCG484I/EES kit devices.
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