Altera® FPGA AI NICs and SmartNICs
Altera FPGA AI NICs and SmartNICs are network adapter cards with hardware programmable accelerators and Ethernet connectivity that can accelerate infrastructure applications running on the host CPU.
Altera® FPGA AI NICs and SmartNICs
Accelerate Data from Edge to Cloud
Altera FPGA-based acceleration solutions make it possible to move, process, and store data faster and more efficiently. With hardware programmability on production-qualified platforms, solution providers can quickly design and deploy new offerings. Reprogrammable FPGAs also provide the flexibility needed in a rapidly changing environment – ensuring assets are deployed efficiently and cost-effectively.
Platforms
Napatech N3070X AI/SmartNIC
Targeted for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Connectivity, Backend Storage, and High-Performance Computing.
- 2x200GE connectivity
- Agilex™ 7 FPGA I-Series
- 4x4GB DDR4
- PCIe5 x16 to card edge, and expansion port
- Passive and active cooling options
Intel® FPGA SmartNIC N6000-PL Platform
Targeted for 4G/5G Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN), Virtual Cell Site Router (vCSR), 5G User Plane Function (UPF), and SMPTE ST2110 Professional Media over Managed IP Networks.
- 2x100GE connectivity
- High performance Agilex™ 7 FPGA F-Series
- Two variants, one with integrated Intel Ethernet Controller
- Integrated 1588 PTP / SyncE
Demo video: Accelerated Virtual Cell Site Router (vCSR) ›
Solution brief: Intel’s Accelerated vCSR Solution with ORAN-Compliant Precision Timing ›
Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N5010 Series
Targeted for 5G User Plane Function (UPF), 5G Access Gateway Function (AGF), Virtual Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG), Virtual Firewall, IP Security (IPSec), Transport Layer Security (TLS), High-Performance Computing.
- 4x100GE connectivity
- Stratix® 10 DX FPGA
- 32GB DRAM, 8GB HBM, 144 Mb QDR IV SRAM
- Two variants, one with integrated Intel® Ethernet Controllers
Solution brief: Intel SmartNICs Boost Broadband Performance ›
Platform Selector Guide
| Features | Napatech N3070X AI/SmartNIC | Intel® FPGA SmartNIC N6000-PL Platform | Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N5013/N5014 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform Category | |||
| Target Market | AI NIC for Datacenter SmartNIC for Comms |
SmartNIC for Comms | SmartNIC for Comms |
| Type | FPGA SmartNIC | FPGA SmartNIC Platform | FPGA SmartNIC |
| FPGA Resources | |||
| FPGA | Agilex™ 7 FPGA I-Series | Agilex™ 7 SoC FPGA F-Series Silicom and WNC: AGF014 Artiza: AGF027 |
Stratix® 10 DX |
| Logic Elements | 4,000K | Silicom and WNC: 1,437K Artiza: 2,693K |
2,100K |
| On-Chip Memory | 377.0 Mb | Silicom and WNC: 190Mb Artiza: 287Mb |
239.5 Mb |
| DSP Blocks | - | Silicom and WNC: 4,510 Artiza: 8,528 |
7,920 |
| Processor | |||
| Type | - | Quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 Processor |
- |
| Memory | |||
| DDR4 | 16 GB | 16GB for FPGA, 1GB for Processor |
32 GB |
| SRAM | - | - | 144 Mb QDR IV |
| HBM | - | - | 8 GB |
| Flash | - | 2 GB |
- |
| Interfaces and Modules | |||
| PCI Express | 5.0 x16 | 4.0 x8 to FPGA & 4.0 x8 to Ethernet controller (N6000) 4.0 x16 to FPGA (N6001) |
4.0 x16 |
| QSFP Interface | x2 | x2 | x4 |
| Network Interface | 2 x 200 Gbps | 2 x 100 Gbps |
4 x 100 Gbps |
| Intel Ethernet Controller E810-CAM2 (N6000) | Dual Intel Ethernet Controller E810-CAM1 (N5014) | ||
| MAX® 10 FPGA Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mechanical, Thermal, and Power | |||
| Form Factor | 1/2 length, full height | Silicom and WNC: ½ length, full height Artiza: ¾ length, full height |
¾ length, full height |
| Width | Dual slot | Single slot |
Dual slot |
Maximum Power Consumption (TDP) *TDP not relevant to deployment power. TDP only used for server thermal design |
175 W | Silicom and WNC: 125W Artiza: 185W |
225 W |
| Tools Support | |||
| Open FPGA Stack (OFS) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quartus® Prime Software | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Intel oneAPI Toolkits | - | Yes | - |
| Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| How to Buy | |||
| Contact | Silicom | Silicom | |
| WNC | |||
| Artiza Networks | |||
Open FPGA Stack drives Scalability and Standardization in the Open Source FPGA Community
OFS is a hardware and software infrastructure that addresses the challenges associated with designing custom FPGA-based platforms and workloads. OFS supports Intel, custom, and 3rd party FPGA based platforms. Developers can visit our open-source OFS Repository on GitHub.
Learn more about Open FPGA Stack (OFS)
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