Board Specifications
Form Factor
- Full-height, double-width PCI-Express card
- 4.376 x 10.5 inches (111 x 266.7 mm)
Host Interface
- 16-lane PCI-Express Gen 3.0
- Actual performance is host computer chipset and operating system dependent
Processing
- Intel Stratix 10 MX
- Standard product is MX1650 in an F2597 package
- Up to 8GBytes on-chip High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) DRAM (2 x 4GBytes)
- Core speed grade -2: I/O speed grade -2
- Contact BittWare for other Stratix 10 MX options
External Memory
- Two 288-pin DIMM slots each fitted with 16GB modules by default, i.e., 32GB total on board (options up to 256GB total)
- Contact BittWare for QDR-II+ & Intel Optane (3D-Xpoint) DIMM options
Application Development
- Supported design flows – Intel FPGA OpenCL SDK & HDL
- OpenCAPI support, Contact Nallatech for latest details
Electrical
- On-card power derived from 12V PCIe slot & two AUX connectors (one 8-pin, one 6-pin)
- Power dissipation is application dependent
- Typical power consumption ~225W
- Card designed to deliver up to 300W power consumption
Quality
- Manufactured to ISO9001:2015 IPC-A-610-Class III
- RoHS compliant
- CE, FCC & ICES approvals
Power Supply Monitoring & Reporting
- USB/SMBus/FPGA access to board mgmt controller
- Field upgradable – program on-board flash
- Power / temperature monitoring & VPD PROM
Four 100/40/25/10G QSFP28 Network Ports
- Flexible low jitter clocking supporting multiple telecoms standards – 100/40/25/10G
- Each QSFP28 can be independently clocked
- Network recovered clocking supported
- Clocking options user programmable
Other I/O
- Two OCuLink connectors each with 8 serial lanes for PCIe 3.0 (Contact BittWare for 25Gbps support)
Cooling
- Standard: double-width active heatsink (with fan)
- Optional: double-width passive heatsink
- Optional: double-width liquid cooling
Environmental
- Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C
Deliverables
- 520N-MX FPGA card
- USB cable (front panel access)
- Built-In-Self-Test (BIST)
- OpenCL “HPC” Board Support Package (BSP)*
- 1 year access to online support
- 1 year hardware warranty
Customization
Technical specifications (e.g. FPGA type, size, external memory capacity etc.) can be modified to meet the exact needs of commercial customer applications as off-the-shelf product available to the general market.
Integrated servers
BittWare accelerator cards are available pre-integrated in server platforms from leading vendors.
Application optimization
BittWare provides consultancy services assisting customers in the porting, optimization and benchmarking of applications executed on BittWare FPGA accelerators.
