Altera® FPGA Acceleration Platforms and SoMs

The portfolio of Altera and Altera Partner FPGA-acceleration platforms includes AI NICs, SmartNICs, Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs), and System on Modules (SoMs). These acceleration boards and platform designs are tailored for use in telecommunications, cloud service providers, and various enterprise data center environments. They are continuously undergoing qualification and are being distributed by leading original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service providers.

Altera® FPGA Acceleration Platforms and SoMs

Expanding Possibilities

Since 2017, Intel has been making it easier for hardware and software designers with a range of FPGA experience to realize the benefits of deploying FPGAs in the data center or cloud. As the model of acceleration card and software stack has evolved, so has the need to enable partners and customers to leverage Intel’s experience and infrastructure for their own proprietary acceleration platform solutions. Intel’s answer was to expand our platform offering to include the new Intel® Open FPGA Stack (Intel® OFS).

Intel OFS is a scalable, source-accessible hardware and software infrastructure delivered via git repositories that enables you to customize your own unique acceleration platform solutions. This second-generation hardware and software infrastructure is being used by Intel and selected third-party platforms featuring our Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs, Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs, and future Intel® FPGA families.

You now have the choice to use the Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs available today for the existing Intel® programmable acceleration card (Intel® PAC) platforms or to adopt Intel OFS for new Intel, third-party, or proprietary platforms.

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Enhanced Performance, Simplified

The Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs is a robust collection of software, firmware, and tools designed and distributed by Intel to make it easier to develop and deploy Intel® FPGAs for workload optimization in the data center. The Intel Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon CPU with FPGAs provides multiple benefits such as saving time, enabling code reuse, and providing the first common developer interface.

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Intel FPGA Acceleration stack diagram

Intel Acceleration Stack Components

The Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs provides optimized and simplified hardware interfaces and software application programming interfaces (APIs), saving developers time so they can focus on the unique value-add of their solution.

Saves developer time to focus on unique value-add of their solution.
Enables code-reuse across multiple Intel FPGA form-factor products.
Establishes the world's first common developer interface for Intel® FPGA data center products.
Offers optimized and simplified hardware and software APIs provided by Intel.
Enables growing adoption by Intel partner ecosystem, further broadening appeal and simplifying use.

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