Cost-sensitive development platform helps student, beginner and seasoned designers work with emerging technologies
6 March 2024 
The embedded industry is seeing an increased demand for open-source RISC-V®-based processor architectures says Microchip, but there are still limited options when it comes to commercially available silicon or hardware. To fill this gap and help empower innovation, the company has launched the PolarFire® SoC Discovery Kit, by which it claims to be offering a user-friendly, feature-rich development kit for embedded processing and compute acceleration, Microchip is making emerging technology more accessible to engineers at all levels. They go on to claim that open-source development kit features a quad-core, RISC-V application-class processor that supports Linux® and real-time applications, a rich set of peripherals and 95K of low-power, high-performance FPGA logic elements. This full-featured, yet low-cost kit allows rapid testing of application concepts, developing firmware applications, programming and debugging user code.
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