Microchip PolarFire vs Xilinx FPGA comparison

Award-winning PolarFire FPGAs deliver the industry’s lowest power at mid-range densities with exceptional security and reliability. The product family spans from 100K logic elements (LEs) to 500K LEs, features 12.7G transceivers and offers up to 50% lower power than competing mid-range FPGAs. The devices are ideal for a wide range of applications within wireline access networks and cellular infrastructure, defense and commercial aviation markets, as well as industrial automation and IoT markets. Get started with your design today by downloading the Libero SoC PolarFire Design Suite and ordering a PolarFire development kit that best matches your needs.

Cost-optimized Architecture
-Architecture and process optimizations for 100K/500K LE devices
-Transceiver performance optimized for 12.7 Gbps, which yields smaller size
-1.6 Gbps I/Os supporting DDR4/DDR3/LPDDR3, LVDS - hardened I/O gearing logic with CDR (supports SGMII/GbE links on GPIOs)
-Best-in-class high-performance, hardened security IP in mid-range devices

Power Optimization
-The lowest static power—1/10 static power vs. competing devices
-Transceiver optimized for 12.7 Gbps, which yields 1/2 the power vs. competing devices
-Integrated hard IP—DDR PHY, PCIe endpoint/root port, crypto processor
-Total power (static and dynamic)—up to 50% lower power

Xilinx® 7 series FPGAs comprise four FPGA families that address the complete range of system requirements, ranging from low cost, small form factor,
cost-sensitive, high-volume applications to ultra high-end connectivity bandwidth, logic capacity, and signal processing capability for the most demanding
high-performance applications.