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PCIe FPGA Card
385A-SFP
Intel Arria 10 1/2-Length PCIe with Six SFP+ and DDR3
Overview
The 385A-SFP network accelerator card provides a powerful PCI-Express compute and high-density I/O platform for processing high-speed network traffic, FPGA development and deployment across a range of application areas including inline error correction, network traffic storage, and high frequency trading.
Key Features
Intel Arria 10 GX 1150
6x SFP+ for 10 Gbps
8 GBytes DDR3
Block Diagram, Data Sheet and Specifications
Specifications
FPGA
- Intel Arria 10 GX
- 1150 GX in F45 package
- Core speed grade -2: I/O speed grade -3
- Contact BittWare for other Arria 10 GX options
On-board Flash
- Flash memory for booting FPGA
On-board memory
- Two banks of DDR3 SDRAM x 72 bits
- 4GB per bank (8GB total /16GB and 32GB version also available)
- 2133MT/s per bank
Host interface
- x8 Gen3 interface direct to FPGA
QSFP cages
- 6 SFP+ cages on front panel connected directly to FPGA via 6 transceivers
- Supports 1/10Gb Ethernet, Fiber Channel, and CPRI rates up to 10 Gbps
- Clocked by up to four independent sources
- Clocking options:
- User clock programming via I2C
- Flexible low jitter clocking
- External clock input, 1PPS
GPIO
- Single ended and differential GPIO connector
Power supply monitoring and reporting
- On-board Intel USB-Blaster II
- Power and temperature monitoring
Cooling
- Standard: single-width active heatsink (embedded fan)
- Optional: single-width passive heatsink
Electrical
- On-card power derived from host motherboard PCIe slot and optional external power source
- Power dissipation is application dependent
- Typical max power consumption 75W
Environmental
- Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C
Quality
- Manufactured to IPC-A-610 Class 2
- RoHS compliant
Form factor
- Standard-height, half-length PCIe single-slot board
- 167.6mm x 110.9 mm x 17mm
Development Tools
FPGA development
- BIST - Built-In Self-Test for CentOS 7 provided with source code (pinout, gateware, PCIe driver & host test application)
Application development
- Supported design flows - Intel Quartus Prime Pro (HDL, Verilog, VHDL, etc.)
Deliverables
- 385A-SFP FPGA board
- USB cable (back panel access)
- Built-In Self-Test (BIST)
- 1-year access to online Developer Site
- 1-year hardware warranty
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