BittWare IA-440i Agilex™ FPGA Card w/400GbE & PCIe Gen5 x16

BittWare IA-440i Agilex™ FPGA card with 400GbE and PCIe Gen5 x16 is designed for security challenges in a data center, networking, and edge computing workloads. The FPGA features optional hardened, high-speed cryptographic engines. The NIC-sized card balances I/O and memory using the Agilex chip’s unique tiling architecture with a QSFP-DD (400GbE), DDR4 SDRAM, and PCIe Gen5 x16 with CXL support.

Associated Cables

USB/JTAG access requires an accessory kit. To access USB and/or JTAG, accessory cables are needed.

Choose from these options:
USB-only breakout cable: BittWare RS-PL12-UAP-83 Pico-lock to USB A cable
JTAG-only breakout cable: BittWare RS-PL12-JTB-13 Pico-lock to JTAG cable
USB + JTAG breakout card: BittWare ACC-IA-JTUSB-BKO

The combination USB + JTAG breakout card is recommended for development. For deployment, the USB-only breakout cable is recommended. These accessory cables are sold separately.

Features

  • FPGA
    • Intel Agilex AGI023
      • Package R18A
      • Core speed grade -2 XCVR speed grade -2
      • FPGA includes ARM HPS
    • Other Agilex FPGA options are available, including
      • XCVR speed grade -1 for CXL (CXL IP is licensed and purchased separately)
      • Hard crypto blocks
  • On-board Flash with 2Gbit Flash memory for booting FPGA
  • External memory of 2x banks onboard DDR4, up to 16GB each
  • Host interface 
    • x16 Gen5 interface direct to FPGA, connected to PCIe hard IP
    • CXL v1.1 (CXL IP is licensed and purchased separately)
  • QSFP-DD cage
    • 400Gbps (8x 50Gbps PAM4)
    • PAM4 1x 400GbE, 2x 200GbE, 4x 100GbE, 8x 50GbE
    • NRZ 1x 200GbE, 2x 100GbE, 4x 50GbE, 8x 10/25 GbE
    • Multi-rate hard MAC supports all combinations
    • Jitter cleaner for network recovered clocking
  • External clocking
    • 1 PPS and 10MHz ref clk inputs (in-board)
  • USB access to BMC, USB-UART
  • Cooling – standard single-width passive heatsink
  • Board management controller
    • Power sequencing and reset
    • Voltage, current, and temperature monitoring
      • Protection shut-down
    • Clock configuration
    • Low bandwidth BMC-FPGA comms with SPI link
    • USB 2.0
    • PLDM support
    • Card-level security
      • BMC Root of Trust
      • BMC and FPGA secure boot
      • BMC and FPGA secure upgrade
      • Key management
  • Electrical
    • On-board power derived from PCIe slot
    • Power dissipation is application-dependent
    • Maximum power consumption of 75W
  • +5°C to +35°C operating temperature range
  • Quality
    • Manufactured to IPC-A-610 Class 2
    • RoHS compliant
    • CE, FCC, and ICES approvals
  • Form factor
    • Low profile (half-height, half-length) PCIe slot card
    • 68.75mm x 167.50mm size

Block Diagram

Block Diagram - BittWare IA-440i Agilex™ FPGA Card w/400GbE & PCIe Gen5 x16

BittWare IA-440i Agilex™ FPGA Card w/400GbE & PCIe Gen5 x16