Microchip Technology is opening the Early Access Program (EAP) for the PolarFire® system-on-chip (SoC) field programmable gate array (FPGA). The platform offers the world’s first hardened real-time, Linux® capable, RISC-V-based microprocessor subsystem on the award-winning, mid-range PolarFire FPGA family, bringing class-leading low power consumption, thermal efficiency and defense grade security to embedded systems. The program starts for PolarFire SoC, which delivers simultaneous support of real-time applications and rich operating systems (VxWorks included) with unparalleled power efficiency.