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

Platform Selector Guide

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Features Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card D5005 Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 Intel® FPGA SmartNIC N6000-PL Platform Intel® IPU C5000X-PL Platform
Platform Category          
Target Market Cloud and Enterprise Cloud and Enterprise IPU for Comms SmartNIC for Comms IPU for Cloud Service Providers
Type Intel PAC Intel® FPGA PAC Intel® FPGA PAC SmartNIC Platform IPU Platform
FPGA Resources          
FPGA Intel® Arria® 10 GX Intel® Stratix® 10 SX Intel® Arria® 10 GT Intel® Agilex™ F-Series SoC FPGA Intel® Stratix® 10 DX
Logic Elements 1,150K 2,800K 1,150K 1,437K 1,325K
On-Chip Memory 65.7 MB 244 MB 65.7 MB 190Mb 114 MB
DSP Blocks 3,036 11,520 3,036 4,510 5,184
Processor          
Type - - - Quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 Processor Intel® Xeon® D-1612 Processor
Memory          
DDR4 8 GB (4 GB x 2 banks) 32 GB (8 GB x 4 banks) 9 GB (4 GB x 2 banks + 1 GB) 16GB for FPGA, 1GB for Processor 20 GB
SRAM - - 144 MB QDR IV - -
HBM - - - - -
Flash 1 Gb 2 Gb 2 Gb 2 GB 1.25 Gb
Interfaces and Modules          
PCI Express* Gen3 x8 (electrical) Gen3 x16 Gen3 x16 Gen4 x8 to FPGA & Gen4 x8 to Ethernet controller (N6000) Gen3 x8, Gen4 x8 (Option)
        Gen4 x16 to FPGA (N6001)  
  Gen3 x16 (mechanical)        
QSFP Interface x1 x2 x2 x2 x2
Network Interface 10 Gbps, 40 Gbps (up to 40 GbE) 10 Gbps, 25 Gbps, 40 Gbps, 100 Gbps 10 Gbps, 25 Gbps (up to 100 GbE) with 2 x 100 Gbps 2 x25 Gbps
      Dual Intel Ethernet Controller XL710 Intel Ethernet Controller E810-CAM2 (N6001)  
Intel® MAX® 10 FPGA Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - Yes Yes Yes Option
FPGA Interface Manager Yes Yes Yes Yes -
Mechanical, Thermal, and Power          
Form Factor ½ length, full height ¾ length, full height ½ length, full height 1/2 length, full height ½ length, full height
  ½ length, ½ height        
Width Single slot Dual slot Single slot Single slot Single slot
           
Maximum Power Consumption (TDP) 66 W 215 W 100 W 75W (N6000), 100W (N6001) 36 W (FPGA) + 22/30 W (Xeon-D 4C/8C)
Tools Support          
Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs Yes Yes Yes Yes -
Intel® Quartus® Prime Software Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Intel oneAPI Toolkits Beta Beta - TBD -
Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) - - Yes Yes Yes
Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit Yes - - - -
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