Supported Platforms¶

Host operating systems¶

Windows 10 64-bit

Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS 64-bit
Debian 11 64-bit
CentOS 7 64-bit and RHEL 7 64-bit

Note

SoftConsole no longer officially supports Windows 7.

Target CPUs¶

Microchip PolarFire SoC RISC-V 64-bit multi-processor FPGA
Microchip Mi-V RISC-V CPU soft cores for PolarFire, RTG4, IGLOO2 and SmartFusion2 FPGAs

JTAG Debug¶

Microchip FlashPro3, FlashPro4, FlashPro5 and FlashPro6
Other JTAG debug probes supported by OpenOCD (such as Olimex ARM-USB-TINY-H) may be used, but are not tested or supported by SoftConsole team.

Microchip FlashPro5 and FlashPro6
Other JTAG debug probes supported by OpenOCD (such as Olimex ARM-USB-TINY-H) may be used, but are not tested or supported by SoftConsole team.

Note

Using SoftConsole from within a Virtual Machine might limit which JTAG probes can be used.

Other software¶

Microchip Libero SoC
- Microchip Libero SoC v2022.2
- Microchip Firmware Catalog v2022.2
Firmware (minimum required version)
- PolarFire SoC MPFS_HAL 2.0.102
- RISC-V Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) 3.0.105

FlashPro support matrix¶

	Standalone FlashPro6	Embedded FlashPro6 Rev B	Standalone & Embedded FlashPro5	Standalone & Embedded FlashPro4	Standalone & Embedded FlashPro3/LCPS
Windows	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Linux	Yes	Yes	Yes
Virtual Machine
Docker on Linux	Yes	Yes	Yes
Debug PolarFire SoC MSS Core Complex	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PolarFire SoC UltraSoC trace/debug
Debug Mi-V RV32 RISCV soft core via CoreJTAGDebug/UJTAG			Yes	Yes	Yes
Debug Mi-V RV32 RISCV soft core via JTAG signals on I/O pins	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes
Debug Cortex-M1 soft core via CoreJTAGDebug/UJTAG			Yes	Yes	Yes
Debug Cortex-M1 soft core via JTAG signals on I/O pins	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes

Note

Refer to the Libero SoC v2022.2 or Program Debug Tools v2022.2 (or later) release notes for details of how to upgrade the Embedded FlashPro6 from Rev A to Rev B.

Note

Empty cells mean there is no support.