ORCHID

RCHD-PF
Polarfire System on Module

667 MHz RISC-V, 5 cores
Microchip PolarFire® FPGA: 23K - 254K Logic Elements
RISC-V and FPGA integrated on a Single Chip
High-Speed I/O and 12.7 Gbit/s transceivers
Real-Time Signal Processing with Hardware Offloading

Frontal view of RCHD-PF Single Board Computer

Frontal view of RCHD-PF evaluation board

Top view of RCHD-PF mounted on RCHD-PF evaluation board

Features and specifications
of the RCHD-PF Polarfire System on Module

SoC	Microchip PolarFire® FPGA SoC
CPU Architecture	RISC-V, up to 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 MPFS025T - 23k logic elements MPFS095T - 93k logic elements MPFS160T - 161k logic elements MPFS250T - 254k logic elements
Memory	LPDDR4 (512 MB, 1, 2 or 4GB) 1600 MT/s
Mass storage	eMMC 5.0 (4-64 GB) 4 KB EEPROM NOR Flash memory (32 MB) for FPGA configuration
Ethernet	1x 1 Gbit/s Ethernet PHY 1x 1 Gbit/s 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 6.1 & 6.5 U-Boot Yocto Buildroot Ubuntu FreeBSD (on request)
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	3.3 V
Dimensions	65 x 45 mm

RCHD-PF Software

For universality, the RCHD-PF PolarFire SoM supports a variety of software choices.
Additionally, we offer software customization services to minimize development cost and speed up time to market.

Software support

Linux 6.1 & 6.5
U-Boot
Yocto
Buildroot
Ubuntu
FreeBSD (on request)

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RCHD-PF - Compact System on Module based on Microchip PolarFire® SoC FPGA

667 MHz RISC-V, 5 cores with real-time capability
Microchip PolarFire® FPGA, from 23 K to 254 K logic elements
Unique combination of RISC-V and FPGA on a single chip
Rich connectivity, including high speed IO and 12.7 Gbit/s transceivers
Real-time signal processing with hardware offload

RCHD-PF - Ideal for FPGA-specific

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

Orchid RCHD-PF System on Module is 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.

Graphics illustrating various applications of artificial intelligence

Evaluation board

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