# Leon3 Polarfire

**URL:** <https://discourse.grlib.community/t/leon3-polarfire/108>\
**Category:** LEON\
**Created:** [22 March 2021 08:11 UTC](https://discourse.grlib.community/t/leon3-polarfire/108 "2021-03-22T08:11:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsarcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jsarcher](https://discourse.grlib.community/u/jsarcher)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2021 08:11 UTC](https://discourse.grlib.community/t/leon3-polarfire/108/1 "2021-03-22T08:11:10Z")

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Hello GRLIB community,

I am generally new to the GRLIB and was searching for a Leon3 design template for the Microsemi Polarfire Evaluation Kit. In the GRLIB documentation in Chapter 6.2 “Supported Boards” I found indications that such a template does actually exist: **leon3-microsemi-polarfire-eval-kit**.

I’ve downloaded **grlib-gpl-2020.4-b4261** but can’t find the template anywhere. Is it contained only in another version of the GRLIB, e.g. COM, FT, FT-FPGA, GPL?

Additionally, I would be interested if there is any support planned for the **NanoXplore NG-MEDIUM** FPGA.

Thank you very much for any help. 🙂

Best Regards,  
Julian

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**Author:** ![ronnback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f17d59/32.png) [@ronnback](https://discourse.grlib.community/u/ronnback)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2021 08:28 UTC](https://discourse.grlib.community/t/leon3-polarfire/108/2 "2021-03-22T08:28:57Z")

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Hello Julian,

Welcome to the GRLIB forum!

Polarfire support is not included in the GPL version of GRLIB. In GRLIB IP Core User’s Manual section 1.6, you can find a list of supported technologies and in which distributions each technology support is included. GRLIB supports NanoXplore NG-Medium in FT releases.

For NOEL-V and LEON5 there are evaluation bitstreams for the PolarFire FPGA Splash Kit available for download from [www.gaisler.com](http://www.gaisler.com).

Best regards,  
Martin

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**Author:** ![jsarcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jsarcher](https://discourse.grlib.community/u/jsarcher)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2021 09:01 UTC](https://discourse.grlib.community/t/leon3-polarfire/108/3 "2021-03-22T09:01:02Z")

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Hi Martin,

thank you for pointing me to this table. This helps a lot.

Can you elaborate on what are the differences between **FT** and **FT-FPGA** package?

Best Regards,  
Julian

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**Author:** ![ronnback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f17d59/32.png) [@ronnback](https://discourse.grlib.community/u/ronnback)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2021 10:06 UTC](https://discourse.grlib.community/t/leon3-polarfire/108/4 "2021-03-22T10:06:09Z")

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Hi Jason,

The difference between the two packages is that a full FT package supports ASIC implementations, e.g. by providing support for ASIC tools, while the FT-FPGA only provides support for FPGA technologies and tools.

Both packages contain the same cores.

Best regards,  
Martin