You can just buy an "Icicle" PolarFire SoC dev board (available since late 2021) and ignore the FPGA part. It's the same thing, pin compatible, same RISC-V CPUs at the same speed, and comes from the factory with the FPGA programmed to connect the CPU cores to the peripherals and boot Linux out of the box.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 16.1 ms ] threadmaybe I'll wait until it shows up at other distributors.
https://www.microchip.com/en-us/development-tool/curiosity-p...
You can just buy an "Icicle" PolarFire SoC dev board (available since late 2021) and ignore the FPGA part. It's the same thing, pin compatible, same RISC-V CPUs at the same speed, and comes from the factory with the FPGA programmed to connect the CPU cores to the peripherals and boot Linux out of the box.
https://mou.sr/44SLfUe
Obviously, it's more expensive, as it contains a 250k LE FPGA, with the bare chip selling for $400 - $500 all by itself.