BittWare designs and manufactures enterprise-class FPGA hardware that enables customers to deploy solutions quickly and with low risk.
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BittWare’s IA-720i is an Altera® Agilex™ 7 I-series FPGA card designed for building Smartnicks or other accelerators requiring a powerful FPGA in a single-slot form factor. The standard-height, 3/4-length card provides a balance of I/O and memory using the Agilex™ chip’s unique tiling architecture with two QSFP56s, DDR4 SDRAM, and PCIe Gen5 x16 for a variety of applications. The card features two M.2 slots supporting enterprise SSDs for data storage.
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Designed for compute acceleration, the 520N-MX is a PCIe board featuring Intel® Stratix® 10 MX2100 FPGA with integrated HBM2 memory. The size and speed of HBM2 (16GB at up to 512GB/s) enables acceleration of memory-bound applications. The board’s 100G QSFP28s are ideal for clustering, and OCuLink connectors allow expansion. Both traditional HDL and higher abstraction C, C++ and OpenCL™-based tool flows are supported. Deliverables include an optimized board support package (BSP) for the Intel® OpenCL™ SDK. The 520N-MX features a Board Management Controller (BMC) for advanced system monitoring and control, which greatly simplifies platform integration and management.
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BittWare’s IA-780i is an Intel® Agilex™ 7 I-series FPGA card designed to address security challenges for data center, networking and edge compute workloads. The FPGA features optional hardened, high-speed cryptographic engines. The standard-height, 3/4-length card provides a balance of I/O and memory using the Intel Agilex® chip’s unique tiling architecture with two QSFP-DDs, DDR4 SDRAM SODIMMs, and PCIe Gen5 x16 with CXL support for a variety of applications. The IA-780i has support for Intel® oneAPI™, which enables an abstracted development flow for dramatically simplified code re-use across multiple architectures.
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BittWare’s IA-440i is an Intel Agilex® I-series FPGA card designed for building SmartNICs or other accelerators requiring a powerful FPGA in a single-slot form factor. The NIC-sized card provides a balance of I/O and memory using the Intel Agilex® chip’s unique tiling architecture with a QSFP-DD (400GbE), DDR4 SDRAM, and PCIe Gen5 x16 with CXL support for a variety of applications.
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BittWare’s IA-840f is an Intel Agilex®-based FPGA card designed to deliver up to 40% higher performance for data center, networking and edge compute workloads. BittWare maximized I/O features on the card using the Agilex chip’s unique tiling architecture with three QSFP-DDs (3× 200G) and PCIe Gen4 x16. The card also supports Intel® oneAPI , which enables an abstracted development flow for dramatically simplified code re-use across multiple architectures.
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BittWare’s IA-860m is an Intel Agilex® M-series FPGA card optimized for throughput- and memory-intensive applications. The M-series FPGA features an extensive memory hierarchy including integrated high-bandwidth memory (HBM2e) and a hard memory Network-on-Chip (NoC) to maximize memory bandwidth. The IA-860m card provides a balance of I/O and memory leveraging the Intel Agilex® chip’s unique tiling architecture with QSFP-DDs, PCIe Gen5 x16 with CXL support, and MCIO expansion port for a variety of applications. An M.2 SSD provides additional storage. The IA-860m has support for Intel® oneAPI , which enables an abstracted development flow for dramatically simplified code re-use across multiple architectures.
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Introducing ground-breaking single precision floating point performance of up to 10 TFLOPS, the 520C is a PCIe board featuring an Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA, along with four banks of DDR4 external memory. The 520C is an FPGA co-processor designed to deliver ultimate performance per watt for compute-intensive datacenter applications. Both traditional HDL and higher abstraction C, C++ and OpenCL-based tool flows are supported. Deliverables include an optimized board support package (BSP) for the Intel® OpenCL SDK.
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Features Intel® Arria® 10 SoC SX 6602x QSFP+ for 10/40Gbps Embedded BSP The 385A-SoC™ low profile accelerator card provides a powerful computing and I/O platform for FPGA across a range of application areas including high performance computing, image processing, and network analytics.
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Designed to tackle the most demanding artificial intelligence workloads, the 520NX is a PCIe card featuring the Intel® Stratix® 10 NX2100 FPGA. This revolutionary accelerator delivers a unique combination of capabilities needed to implement low latency and larger AI models: High-performance AI Tensor Blocks: 143 INT8 TOPSDeep Near-Compute Memory: up to 8GB of HBM2High-Bandwidth Networking: up to 600Gbps board-to-board bandwidth The 520NX features a Board Management Controller (BMC) for advanced system monitoring and control, which greatly simplifies platform integration and management.
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Introducing ground-breaking single precision floating point performance of up to 1.5 TFLOPS per device. The BittWare 510T Datacenter Co-Processor is a standard-height, dual-slot PCIe board designed to deliver fast and efficient performance per watt. The OpenCL-programmable 510T features two Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs, along with four banks of DDR4 external memory per FPGA.
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BittWare’s A10PL4 is a low-profile PCIe x8 card based on the Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA. The Arria® 10 boasts high densities and a power-efficient FPGA fabric married with a rich feature set including high-speed transceivers , hard floating-point DSP blocks, and embedded Gen3 PCIe x8. The board offers over 32 GB of memory, sophisticated clocking and timing options, and two front panel QSFP cages, each supporting . The A10PL4 also incorporates a Board Management Controller (BMC) for advanced system monitoring, which greatly simplifies platform management. All of these features combine to make the A10PL4 ideal for a wide range of applications, including network processing and security, compute and storage, instrumentation, broadcast, and SigInt. Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGABuilt on 20 nm process technology, the Arria® 10 FPGAs feature industry-leading programmable logic that integrates a rich feature set of embedded peripherals, embedded high-speed transceivers, hard memory controllers, and protocol IP controllers. Variable-precision digital signal processing (DSP) blocks integrated with hardened floating point (IEEE 754-compliant) enable the Arria® 10 to deliver floating-point performance of up to 1.5 TFLOPS. The FPGA supports Gen3 PCIe x8 via a hard IP block and provides up to 1150K equivalent LEs.I/O InterfacesThe A10PL4 provides a variety of interfaces for high-speed serial I/O as well as debug support. Two QSFP cages are available on the front panel, each supporting 40GbE or four 10GbE channels. The QSFP SerDes channels are connected directly to the Arria® 10 FPGA, thus removing the latency of external PHYs. The QSFP cages can optionally be adapted for SFP+.The x8 PCIe interface provides 8 SerDes lanes to the Arria® 10 FPGA. A USB 2.0 interface with built-in USB-Blaster is available for debug and programming support. The board also supports timestamping with an optional precision timing module, which features 1 PPS and reference clock inputs and outputs along with precision clock circuitry. The timing module option requires a full-height front panel.MemoryThe A10PL4 features up to 32 GBytes of DDR4 with optional error-correcting codes (ECC). Additional on-board memory includes flash memory with factory default and support for multiple FPGA images. An on-board PROM provides access to the board’s MAC ID.OpenCL™ SupportThe A10PL4 supports the Open Computing Language (OpenCL™) programming model, providing an incredibly powerful solution for system acceleration. Development tools for OpenCL include Intel’s SDK for OpenCL and BittWare’s OpenCL Developer’s Bundle. Board Management Controller Boards in BittWare’s A10 family feature an advanced system monitoring subsystem, similar to those typically found on today’s server platforms. At the heart of the board’s monitoring system lies a Board Management Controller (BMC), which accepts Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) messaging protocol commands. The BMC provides a wealth of features, including control of power and resets, monitoring of board sensors, FPGA boot loader, voltage overrides, configuration of programmable clocks, access to I2C bus components, field upgrades, and IPMI messaging. Access to the BMC is via PCIe or USB. BittWare’s BittWorks II Toolkit also provides utilities and libraries for communicating with the BMC components at a higher, more abstract level, allowing developers to remotely monitor the health of the board.BwMonitor in the BittWorks II Toolkit provides a view into the board management capabilities of your BittWare hardware.Development ToolsBittWorks II ToolkitBittWare offers complete software support for the A10PL4 with its BittWorks II software tools. Designed to make developing and debugging applications for BittWare’s boards easy and efficient, the Toolkit is a collection of libraries and applications that provides the glue between the host application and the hardware. A variety of features allow developers to take full advantage of the Arria 10 FPGA capabilities on the BittWare board, including FPGA control via PCIe, Flash programming, custom ISR scripts, and convenient control of FPGA loads. The Toolkit supports 32-bit, and 64-bit Windows and Linux platforms and can connect to the board via PCIe or USB, providing a common API no matter the connection method.FPGA Development KitBittWare’s FPGA DevKit provides FPGA board support IP and integration for BittWare’s Intel FPGA-based boards. The FDK includes FPGA components that provide preconfigured physical interfaces, infrastructure, and examples, drastically cutting development time and easily integrating into existing FPGA development environments.Working example projects are available for each board which illustrate how to move data between the board’s different interfaces. Supported interfaces include DDR4, DDR3, DDR2, QDR2/+, PCIe, 10GbE, LVDS, SerDes, and Double Data Rate I/O. All example projects are available on BittWare’s Developer Site.BittWare Firmware and Network Solutions PartnersBittWare offers firmware for the Arria 10 FPGA on the A10 family PCIe boards, targeted specifically for networking applications. BittWare’s FPGA framework provides a solid base for your application, including the following:10GbE MACPCIe multi-channel DMA enginesDDR4 SDRAM and QDRII/II+ controllersBittWare has also partnered with several companies to offer solutions for networking and financial acceleration:Algo-Logic: Market feed handler and low latency gateway libraries, MAC, TOEArgon Design: Design services specializing in multimedia and FPGA-based high performance tradingAtomic Rules: Custom IP development, example UDP, precision timestamping, PCIe, networkingEnyx: UOE, TOE, book building IP, order management IP, Market Feed HandlerIntilop: Ultra low latency TOE, UOE, and MACLDA Technologies: 25 GbE Networking enclosures for PCI Express compliant FPGA board platformsLeWiz: Ultra low latency, multi-session TOE IP coresPolyBus: Infiniband link layer and transport layerTamba Networks: Ultra low latency 10/40 GigE MAC + PCS, TOE
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Features: Altera Arria 10 GX 1150 FPGA ,Up to 1150K logic elementsGen3 PCIe Hard IP block Up to 1.3 TFLOPS floating point performance PCIe x8 Gen3 Optional QSFP for 40GbE or 4x 10GbEUp to 16 Gbytes of DDR4 SDRAM with ECC (x72)Board Management Controller for Intelligent Platform Management Complete software support and FPGA examples Aggressive volume pricing BittWare’s A10SA4 is a low-profile PCIe x8 card based on the Altera Arria 10 GX FPGA. Designed specifically to support large FPGA loads, the board offers an FPGA with up to 1150K logic elements, optional 10/40GbE high-speed networking, and up to 16 Gbytes DDR4 SDRAM – all of which make it ideal for server-based applications. OpenCL support enables a high-level software-like development flow, which greatly simplifies FPGA development.