Bittware IA-440i | Agilex 7 I-Series FPGAs |PCIe 5.0 + CXL |  400G networking

The Bittware IA-440i is a compact 400G FPGA Accelerator Card. The Intel Agilex 7 I-Series FPGAs are optimized for applications that are bandwidth intensive and require high performance processor interfaces. 

This Single-Width Card has 400G configurable networking support for the most demanding bandwidth requirements including hard Ethernet media access control (MAC), physical coding sublayer (PCS), and forward error correction (FEC) for a range of speeds.

The IA-440i features 2nd Gen Intel® Hyperflex™ Architecture, which yields up to 40 percent higher performance.

PCIe Gen5 supports data transfer speeds 2x higher than PCIe Gen4, providing greater performance capabilities to developers of PC interconnect, graphics adapters, and chip-level communications. And Compute Express Link (CXL) support enables high-speed, low-latency interface to CPUs.

The IA-440i 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.

IP & Solutions from BittWare Partners

VAS Suite Video Analytics Solution from Megh

MACsec IP Core from Xiphera

NVMe Bridge Platform IP from IntelliProp

oneAPI Software Tool Flow Frame for FPGAs by Intel

Board Specifications

• FPGA:
  • Intel Agilex 7 I-Series: AGI019 or AGI023
    • AGI019: Core speed grade -2: XCVR speed grade -1
    • AGI023: Core speed grade -1: XCVR speed grade -1
    • XCVR speed grade -1 supports CXL (CXL IP is licensed and purchased separately)
    • FPGA includes ARM HPS
  • Other Agilex FPGA options are available, including
    • Hard crypto blocks
• On-Board flash: 2Gbit Flash memory for booting FPGA
• External memory: 2x banks on-board DDR4, up to 16GB each
• Host interface:
  • x16 Gen5 interface direct to FPGA, connected to PCIe hard IP
  • CXL v1.1 (CXL IP is licensed and purchased separately)
• QSFP-DD cage:
  • 400 Gbps (8x 50Gbps PAM4)
  • PAM4: 1x 400GbE, 2x 200GbE, 4x 100GbE, 8x 50GbE
  • NRZ: 1x 200GbE, 2x 100GbE, 4x 50GbE, 8x 10/25 GbE
  • Multi-rate hard MAC supports all combinations
  • Jitter cleaner for network recovered clocking
• External clocking:
  • 1 PPS and 10MHz ref clk inputs (in-board)
• USB: USB access to BMC, USB-UART
• Board Management Controller
  • Power sequencing and reset
  • Voltage, current, temperature monitoring
    • Protection shut-down
  • Clock configuration
  • Low bandwidth BMC-FPGA comms with SPI link
  • USB 2.0
  • PLDM support
• Card-level security
  • BMC Root of Trust
  • BMC and FPGA secure boot
  • BMC and FPGA secure upgrade
  • Key management
  • RTC with battery backup
• Cooling
  • Standard: single-width passive heatsink
• Electrical
  • On-board power derived from PCIe slot and external power connector
  • Power dissipation is application dependent
  • Max power consumption 150W
• Environmental
  • Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C
• Quality
  • Manufactured to IPC-A-610 Class 2
  • RoHS compliant
  • CE, FCC & ICES approvals
• Form factor
  • Standard-height, 3/4-length, single-slot PCIe card

Development Tools

• BittWare SDK including PCIe driver, libraries, and board monitoring utilities
• Intel FPGA oneAPI Base Toolkit, Intel High-Level Synthesis (C/C++) and Quartus Prime Pro (HDL, Verilog, VHDL, etc.)

Product Data

• Specifications: BittWare IA-440i PCIe FPGA Card