Microsemi's new Libero SoC v11.4 release improves design flow runtime by up to 35 percent for its award-winning SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs. The new release also offers greater design efficiency with an improved SmartDesign graphical design canvas along with improved text editor, design reporting and constraints editor capabilities.

The improved SERDES wizards have new clocking options which allow for increased flexibility in mixing serial data rates. These new design efficiencies reduce design creation complexity for Microsemi's customers which results in a faster time-to-market for FPGA based designs.

Microsemi has seen tremendous adoption of its Libero SoC design software since introducing Libero SoC v11.0 for its SmartFusion2 and IGLOO2 FPGAs in 2013, and now has over 44,000 licenses granted year to date. This is being driven by the inherent value the market is seeing with Microsemi FPGAs which are positioned competitively in mainstream applications for communication, industrial, aerospace and defense.

A significant addition to the latest version of Libero SoC v11.4 software is full design flow support for the Linux open source operating system. The new easy-to-use FlashPro Express tool that comes bundled with the software enables device programming and debugging capabilities for the Linux operating system. These capabilities provide additional efficiencies for the system architects and designers by allowing them to stay in the same development environment throughout the entire design flow.

"Our overarching goal with the release of Libero SoC v11.4 design software is to create enhanced ease-of-use and design efficiency with improvements in various design wizards, editors and scripting engines, as well as vastly improved reliability of run times. These significant improvements help our customers get their FPGA-based solutions to market faster," said Shakeel Peera, senior director of product line marketing at Microsemi.

"We also want to leverage the large and ever increasing corporate Linux operating system installed base and give our customers the ability to run an entire design exclusively through a comprehensive Linux design flow."