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
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