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BittWare 520N FPGA Accelerator Card

BittWare 520N FPGA Accelerator Card features an Intel Stratix 10 FPGA. The 520N FPGA Accelerator Card offers a single-precision floating-point performance of up to 10 TFLOPS and four banks of DDR4 external memory. The device provides four network ports enabling FPGA-to-FPGA scaling separate from the PCIe bus.

The BittWare 520N FPGA Accelerator Card supports an array of serial I/O protocols operating up at 10/25/40/100GbE. The device provides both traditional HDL and higher abstraction C, C++, and OpenCL-based tool flow support.

Features

  • Intel Stratix 10 GX 2800
  • BittWare-optimized OpenCL BSP
  • Intel FPGA OpenCL Software Development Kit (SDK)
    • OpenCL support for software-orientated customers
    • Abstraction for faster development
    • Push-button flow for FPGA executable, driver, and API
    • Add optimized HDL IP cores to OpenCL designs as libraries
  • 4x QSFP28s for 400Gbps
  • Hardware Description Language (HDL)
    • Traditional VHDL/Verilog support for hardware-orientated customers
    • Hand-code for ultimate performance
    • High-Level Synthesis (HLS) available for rapid development
    • FPGA card designed to support standard Intel IP cores for Stratix 10

Specifications

  • FPGA
    • Intel Stratix 10 GX
    • GX2800 in an F1760 package
    • L-tile with up to 26Gbps SerDes I/O
    • H-tile with up to 28Gbps SerDes I/O
    • Core speed grade -2: I/O speed grade -2
  • On-board Flash
    • 2Gbit Flash memory for booting FPGA
  • External memory
    • Four banks of DDR4 SDRAM x 72 bits
    • 8GB per bank (32GB total/64GB version also available)
    • 2400 MT/s Transfer Rate
  • Host interface
    • x16 Gen3 interface direct to FPGA, connected to PCIe hard IP
  • Cooling
    • Double-width active heatsink (with fan) - standard
    • Double-width passive heatsink - optional
  • QSFP cages
    • 4 QSFP28 cages on front panel connected directly to FPGA via 16 transceivers
      • L-Tile: up to 2 100Gbps network ports
      • H-Tile: up to 4 100Gbps network ports
    • User programmable low jitter clocking supporting 10/25/40/100GbE
    • Each QSFP28 can be independently clocked
    • Jitter cleaner for network recovered clocking
    • 2 QSFP28s have available 100GbE MAC hard IP
  • System manager
    • On-board Intel USB Blaster
    • Power and temperature monitoring
    • Fault condition reporting to FPGA
  • Electrical
    • On-board power derived from 12V PCIe slot & two AUX connectors (one 8-pin, one 6-pin)
    • Power dissipation is application dependent
    • Typical max power consumption 225W
  • Environmental
    • 5°C to 35°C Operating temperature
  • Quality
    • Manufactured to ISO9001:2015 IPC-A-610-Class III
    • RoHS compliant
    • CE, FCC & ICES approvals
  • Form factor
    • Standard-height PCIe dual-slot board
    • 4.376 x 10.5 inches (111 x 266.7mm)
  • Development Tools
    • FPGA development BIST – Built-In Self-Test for CentOS 7 provided with source code (pinout, gateware, PCIe driver & host test application)
    • Application development Supported design flows – Intel FPGA OpenCL SDK, Intel High-Level Synthesis (C/C++) & Quartus Prime Pro (HDL, Verilog, VHDL, etc.)

Kit Contents

  • 520N FPGA board
  • USB cable (front panel access)
  • Built-In Self-Test (BIST)
  • OpenCL HPC Board Support Package (BSP)
  • 1-year access to online Developer Site
  • 1-year hardware warranty

Applications

  • Machine learning
  • Gene sequencing
  • Oil and Gas
  • Video transcoding

Associated Software

Block Diagram

Block Diagram - BittWare 520N FPGA Accelerator Card
Published: 2020-06-11 | Updated: 2022-03-11