BittWare IA-420F with Intel Agilex AGF014 FPGA Accelerator

The IA-420F is built on BittWare ’s enterprise-class foundation stones: existing products and processes that are already proven through extensive validation. When it’s time to ramp to production, this means a faster turnaround and utilizing the same hardware you have been using for development.

Tap Into the Power of Agilex: The new Intel Agilex FPGAs are more powerful, draw less power and add I/O features like PCIe Gen4.

Advanced memory support: DDR4, QDR-II+ (through custom BittWare DIMMs) and Intel Optane DC persistent memory.

The IA-420F FPGA features a configurable DSP engine with hardened support for single-precision FP32, half-precision FP16, BFLOAT16, and INT8 calculations. Agilex also supports low-precision configurations from INT7 to INT2 for maximum flexibility – ideal for evolving AI workloads.

2nd Gen Intel® Hyperflex™ Architecture: Continuous improvements to Intel Hyperflex deliver improved performance compared to Stratix 10 device designs. The 2nd Gen architecture thus greatly improve the productivity of customers and reduce time-to-market.

The Agilex FPGA delivers optimal power, performance and logic utilization efficiency by integrating hardened protocols for many popular functions including 100G Ethernet and PCIe Gen 4.

Built with the latest PCIe Gen4 interface, the IA-420F can transfer up to twice the bandwidth of Gen3 devices.

Supporting Intel's oneAPI.

Develop faster and reuse code in this software-orientated tool flow.

Supporting high-level software tool flows is critical to a growing customer base who want to take advantage of heterogenous architectures. The new oneAPI from Intel is designed around code re-use while providing similar performance to other high-level tools. BittWare recently completed an updated 2D FFT white paper using oneAPI and found the performance matches our optimized OpenCL-based approach.

Board Specifications

• Intel Agilex AGF014
• Core speed grade -2: I/O speed grade -2
• On-Board flash
• 2Gbit Flash memory for booting FPGA
• 2x banks on-board DDR4, up to 16GB each
• x16 Gen4 interface direct to FPGA, connected to PCIe hard IP
• QSFP-DD cage on front panel connected directly to FPGA via 8 transceivers
• User programmable low jitter clocking supporting 10/25/40/100GbE
• Jitter cleaner for network recovered clockingE
• GPIO
• 8x GPIO expansion connector
• External clocking
• 1 PPS and 10MHz ref clk front panel inputs (optional)
• USB access to BMC, USB-JTAG, USB-UART
• Board Management Controller
• Voltage, current, temperature monitoring
• Power sequencing and reset
• Field upgrades
• FPGA configuration and control
• Clock configuration
• Low bandwidth BMC-FPGA comms with SPI link
• PLDM support
• Voltage overrides
• Cooling: Standard single-width passive heatsink
• On-board power derived from PCIe slot
• Power dissipation is application dependent
• Max power consumption 75W
• Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C
• Quality
• Manufactured to IPC-A-610 Class 2
• RoHS compliant
• CE, FCC & ICES approvals
• Low profile (half-height, half-length) PCIe slot card
• Size: 167.7 mm x 68.9 mm
• BittWare SDK including PCIe driver, libraries, and board monitoring utilities
• Supported design flows - Intel FPGA OneAPI Base Toolkit, Intel High-Level Synthesis (C/C++) & Quartus Prime Pro (HDL, Verilog, VHDL, etc.)

Product Data

• Specifications: BittWare IA-420F PCIe FPGA Card. Agilex FPGA card with PCIe Gen4 x16