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I've a PolarFire SOC eval board on my desk at the moment. 4x U54 cores. Only started to play with it but lots of kernel panics so far. Not sure where the issue is just yet but hopefully it'll get more stable over the next year

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If only if they had support on the open FPGA stack (yosys+nextpnr), it'd get one in an eyeblink.

Alas, I'll have to settle for softcores on ECP5.

The Polarfire SOC is a very neat, powerful series of chips — I also have an Icicle board and have some plans for it — but the Unleashed is definitely a better purchase unless you have plans on utilizing the FPGA, just from the spec sheets. The Polarfire chip is pretty darn cool on its own though...

FPGA is definitely my number one requirement, that's why I have it

Yeah same here. I admit I'm real jealous of the M.2 drive...

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