HiPrAccâ„¢ NCS280-I

Intel Agilex I-Series PCIe Card

High performance CxL/PCIe Gen5 accelerator  F-Tile FPGA with up to 400Gbps (8x56Gbps PAM-4) Ethernet interface

 Features

  • PCIe low profile (half-length, half-height) form factor (6.6" x 2.46")
  • Single-slot design auxiliary power input
  • Agilex 023/019 device support
  • CXL (Compute Express Linnk) and 16x PCIe Gen5 (512Gbps) host interface
  • Up to 2x 200Gbps or 8x 25/50Gbps network support via two QSFD interfaces
  • Support for up to four Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSDs
  • 2 banks of 72-bit DDR4 memory (8GB/16GB)
  • Agilex ARM HPS support with 32GByte eMMC
  • Option for direct GigE network interface to HPS for debug
  • Up to 75W card load with edge power and up to 100W card load with 6-pin PCIe power connector
  • Integrated USB Blaster II, Agilex debug and module monitor interfaces through a single micro-USB connector on PCIe bracket
  • Flexible clocking architecture with support for external synchronization/clock interface
  • Extensive power, voltage and temperature telemetry with SMBus based access for host server board management controller (BMC)

Target Applications

  • Designed for Data Center workloads and scale out architectures
  • Machine learning, network, compute and storage acceleration
  • 5G infrastructure DU and CU

 On-board Development and Debug Support

  • Integrated USB BlasterII
  • UART access to the FPGA and module control CPLD
  • Temperature, voltage and current monitoring sensors to module control CPLD
  • Module input power measurement for profiling and verification in target servers/environment
  • Automatic over-temp FPGA de-configuration
  • Support for server Board management controller (BMC) with MTCP protocol support via SMBus through integrated module control CPLD processor
  • Tri-color module status LED at PCIe bracket edge
  • Multiple on-board diagnostic and status LEDs

NC280 I Front View

 

Interfaces

  • x16 Gen4 PCIe card edge Interface
    • Backwards compatible with Gen3
    • Supports bifurcation as two x8 Gen4/Gen3
    • Gen2 and Gen1 supported via link downtraining
  • QSFP-DD network interface port with hard IP support for:
    • PAM4: 2x 200G
    • PAM4: 4x 100G
    • PAM4: 8x 50G
    • NRZ: 2x 100/50G/40G
    • NRZ: 8x 25G/10G
  • Unified micro-USB 2.0 interface with on-board USB hub for:
    • Integrated USB Blaster II
    • UART interface to HPS or FPGA fabric (DIP switch selectable)
    • UART interface to module control CPLD for card monitor and remote board control
  • 20-pin header for HPS GigE network interface (requires full-height bracket with RJ-45 adapter)
  • SMB coaxial connector for external clock and PPS reference input

 

NCS280 I Block Diagram
 
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