LMS ÜberNIC Nano | NIC Cards for Fintech

Fully Hardware-Accelerated Network Stack

Built on the Proven Performance of AMD + BittWare for FSI

Addressing the Weakness of NIC cards for Financial Traders

Liquid-Markets-Solutions (LMS) and BittWare are addressing a weak point in the FSI market: the humble NIC card. Once a simple purchase for getting adequate low-latency performance, today’s NIC cards aren’t keeping up. At 825 Mb/s, latency on today’s NIC cards begin to degrade to several microseconds—quietly eating away at the edge your algorithms had in the market.

Enter ÜberNIC Nano: the latest addition to the ÜberNIC family of SmartNICs. It starts with the impressive latency of AMD UltraScale+ FPGAs and stays there—right through to multiple Gb/s. It does this with similar ease and cost to the NICs you’re using now.

Powerful Performance in a Single-Slot NIC

The Silicon Advantage

The internal latency of your NIC is a critical performance component. That’s why the ÜberNIC Nano is built on AMD’s UltraScale+ family of FPGAs—proven to provide the lowest possible latency.

But that’s not to say all NICs will perform equally. The real difference is how the network stack is designed, specifically how much is handled by the CPU. That’s where the ÜberNIC family gives the ultimate advantage: the entire network stack is implemented in hardware, ensuring the lowest possible latency.

Even today’s most popular NICs favored in FSI use a combination of hardware/software that results in poor latency within the scope of today’s market feeds. See our example using a 1-day NYSE stream below.

Game-Changing Performance for Fintech

ÜberNIC for Low-Latency Trading

Today's NICs Don't Stack Up for Market Trading

Fact: today’s market feeds regularly pass 850 Mb/s—the point at which even the best competitive NIC’s network stack begin to dramatically lose sufficient latency performance.

Enter ÜberNIC, the first commercially-available FPGA NIC with the entire network stack in accelerated hardware, allowing for consistent low latency—ready for today’s markets and the future.

Port Density + Precision Time

Though the focus can be on low latency, another big advantage with LMS ÜberNIC is precision time. Specifically, this family of cards offer time synchronization with a variety of external devices and standards, including White Rabbit.

Powerful Performance in a Single-Slot NIC. Shown as Nano+ with optional Timing Kit.

Key Features at a Glance for Financial Services Industry (FSI)

Performance

Raw performance improvement that’s consistent through the critical peak market feed moments when you need it most!

Utility

More fiber pairs per card means getting more out of each server. Powerful enough for ancillary services like PCAP and timestamping on the same card.

Precision Time

Built-in support for time synchronization between cards and the CPU.

Foundation

100% Offload

By moving the complete network stack into FPGA hardware, the ÜberNIC Nano achieves unmatched performance.

RFC & IEEE Compliant

Fiber Port Density Leader

Single-slot card supports up to 8x 10/25G fiber pairs

Multi-GB On-board Memory

Single-Slot, Compact Form Factor

The Standard for FSI Performance

Tap into the world’s top choice for FSI ultra-low latency performance, the AMD Virtex UltraScale+ family of FPGAs. Featuring incredible transceiver performance, LMS and BittWare built ÜberNIC on an excellent foundation. There’s no lack in I/O features either, with up to 32GB DDR4, 16 lanes of 10/25G with hard MAC, and PCIe Gen3 x16.

Performance & Usability

At its core, ÜberNIC Nano is a low-latency focused NIC. With the combination of full hardware acceleration and low-latency PCIe transfers, you get unmatched performance—even during peak market times.

Higher Throughput Without Performance Loss

Zero frame drops through line rate

Multi-GB DDR Buffer Ensures Lossless Reception

Plug & Play x86 I/O (BSD/POSIX; Raw Frame; Custom API)

PTP v2.1/PPS/PTM time sync*

White Rabbit time sync*

* Available on ÜberNIC Nano+ only.

Built on BittWare

BittWare brings enterprise-class products to market using the latest technology such as AMD UltraScale+ FPGAs. Today’s high-speed interfaces require significant care in the design and manufacturing process to make a reliable, high-quality product at scale.

Pictured is our manufacturing facility at ISI, a Molex company, in California.

Extensibility

FPGA-Exclusive Functions

Only FPGA-based solutions with bundled hardware network allows for all these extensible functions.

MAC-based Timestamping

Support for custom user IP

MAC-based PCAP & Port Spanning

Simultaneous Network I/O Support for SW & HW EUC

Configuration Overview

Each ÜberNIC Nano configuration is single width and passively cooled.

ÜberNIC Nano

Single Width, Low Profile | Up to 4x 1/10/25G Links

ÜberNIC Nano+

Single width, full-height, 1/2 length | Up to 8x 1/10/25G Links

Product Features

ÜberNIC is Available in a Variety of Configurations

PCIe Gen3 x16

ÜberNIC with pre-programmed Bitstream
Optionally User-programmable
Full Network Stack in Hardware
Low-profile, Half-height Half-length
AMD Virtex UltraScale+
FPGA: VU3P
Link Speeds
1/10/25/40/50/100 GbE
QSFP-DD up to 4× 1/10/25G,
or 1x 100G
16GB DDR4

PCIe Gen3 x16

ÜberNIC with pre-programmed Bitstream
Optionally user-programmable
Full Network Stack in Hardware
Single Slot, Full-height, 1/2 Length
AMD Virtex UltraScale+
FPGA: VU3P
Link Speeds
1/10/25/40/50/100 GbE
QSFP-DD up to 8× 1/10/25G,
or 2x 100G
32GB DDR4
Precision Timing Kit

Get in Touch

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