A5E 013A vs MPFS095T
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 5 E-Series A5E 013A and the Microchip PolarFire SoC MPFS095T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A5E 013A | MPFS095T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 5 E-Series | Microchip PolarFire SoC |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 93,600 | 93,000 |
| LUTs as published | 46,800 ALMs | 93,000 LUT4 |
| Vendor logic figure | 138,060 LE | 93,000 LE |
| DSP | 188 variable-precision DSP blocks | 292 18×18 math blocks (MACC) |
| Block RAM | 7 Mb | 6 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 392 | 276 |
| Transceivers | 4 × XCVR 28 Gb/s | 4 × SERDES 12.5 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen4 x4 | Gen2 x4 |
| Hard processor | 4× Arm Cortex-A76 + Cortex-A55 (optional) | 4× RISC-V (RV64GC U54) |
| Process | Intel 7 | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | Non-volatile (SONOS flash) |
| Packages | 2 | 4 |
| Design tool | Altera Quartus Prime | Microchip Libero SoC |
Highlighted values are higher. Logic is compared in LUT4 equivalents; see how FPGA vendors count logic.
Key differences
Both devices offer similar logic capacity: 93.6K and 93K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the A5E 013A is built from ALMs and the MPFS095T from LUT4, so the raw LUT counts (46.8K vs 93K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the MPFS095T has 292 18×18 math blocks (MACC) against 188 variable-precision DSP blocks on the A5E 013A.
The A5E 013A has more on-chip memory (7 Mb vs 6 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 4 at up to 28 Gb/s on the A5E 013A and 4 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the MPFS095T.
Configuration memory: sram on the A5E 013A, non-volatile (sonos flash) on the MPFS095T.
The A5E 013A is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the MPFS095T with Microchip Libero SoC.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A5E 013A (Agilex 5 E-Series) and MPFS095T (PolarFire SoC).