A5E 028A vs MPFS160T
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 5 E-Series A5E 028A and the Microchip PolarFire SoC MPFS160T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A5E 028A | MPFS160T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 5 E-Series | Microchip PolarFire SoC |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 191,360 | 161,000 |
| LUTs as published | 95,680 ALMs | 161,000 LUT4 |
| Vendor logic figure | 282,256 LE | 161,000 LE |
| DSP | 376 variable-precision DSP blocks | 498 18×18 math blocks (MACC) |
| Block RAM | 14 Mb | 10.2 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 392 | 312 |
| Transceivers | 12 × XCVR 28 Gb/s | 8 × 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 | 3 |
| 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
The A5E 028A has about 19% more logic capacity (191K vs 161K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the A5E 028A is built from ALMs and the MPFS160T from LUT4, so the raw LUT counts (95.7K vs 161K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the MPFS160T has 498 18×18 math blocks (MACC) against 376 variable-precision DSP blocks on the A5E 028A.
The A5E 028A has more on-chip memory (14 Mb vs 10.2 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 12 at up to 28 Gb/s on the A5E 028A and 8 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the MPFS160T.
Configuration memory: sram on the A5E 028A, non-volatile (sonos flash) on the MPFS160T.
The A5E 028A is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the MPFS160T with Microchip Libero SoC.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A5E 028A (Agilex 5 E-Series) and MPFS160T (PolarFire SoC).