A5E 043A vs MPFS250T
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 5 E-Series A5E 043A and the Microchip PolarFire SoC MPFS250T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A5E 043A | MPFS250T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 5 E-Series | Microchip PolarFire SoC |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 294,400 | 254,000 |
| LUTs as published | 147,200 ALMs | 254,000 LUT4 |
| Vendor logic figure | 434,240 LE | 254,000 LE |
| DSP | 564 variable-precision DSP blocks | 784 18×18 math blocks (MACC) |
| Block RAM | 20.5 Mb | 15.9 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 504 | 372 |
| Transceivers | 16 × XCVR 28 Gb/s | 16 × 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
The A5E 043A has about 16% more logic capacity (294K vs 254K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the A5E 043A is built from ALMs and the MPFS250T from LUT4, so the raw LUT counts (147K vs 254K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the MPFS250T has 784 18×18 math blocks (MACC) against 564 variable-precision DSP blocks on the A5E 043A.
The A5E 043A has more on-chip memory (20.5 Mb vs 15.9 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 16 at up to 28 Gb/s on the A5E 043A and 16 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the MPFS250T.
Configuration memory: sram on the A5E 043A, non-volatile (sonos flash) on the MPFS250T.
The A5E 043A is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the MPFS250T with Microchip Libero SoC.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A5E 043A (Agilex 5 E-Series) and MPFS250T (PolarFire SoC).