Every Polaris Prototyping board solution or Appliance offers the ability to add expansion cards that are Altera HSMC specification compliant to model an entire electronic system running at 100+ MHz. In addition to leveraging Altera HSMC daughter card ecosystem, one can implement Polaris-supplied HAPS Adapter card that allows access to the HAPS/Synopsys daughter card ecosystem.

An example of system-level modeling of a Smartphone, using a Polaris Single-FPGA Prototyping board along with 3 HSMC-compliant daughter cards – A custom RF daughter card that models the RF front-end, an off-the-shelf Camera interface daughter card and an off-the-shelf Multimedia LCD Touchpad daughter card is shown below. This prototype of a Smartphone can effectively run at 100+ MHz, whereby the design team can perform meaningful system verification tasks – all this, prior to committing the ASIC/SOC for fabrication.

Example of a Smartphone prototyping using an Polaris S4-Tile-V8S and 3 HSMC Daughter cards