Two Approaches to Rapidly Developing Customized FPGA Solutions
Article Two Approaches to Rapidly Developing Customized FPGA Solutions How BittWare reduces risk over the complete customized solution lifecycle Overview While FPGAs in the datacenter
When are FPGAs right for network acceleration?
Many important networking functions now depend upon FPGA-based hardware acceleration. In general, such functions fall into one of four categories:
Functions evolving too quickly for ASIC solutions
Most often in security: Anti-DDoS for example. Also high-frequency trading (HFT/Fintech) where competitive algos change regularly.
Functions too new to harden into ASIC
ASICs are expensive to justify for modest-volume applications. Early-to-market speeds like 56G PAM4 enabling 400G are first available on FPGAs.
Too specialized to justify ASIC implementation
This is seen in real-time packet capture and filtering for Lawful Intercept (LI) and functional testing of high line-rate equipment in excess of 100Gbps.
Quickly emerging proprietary functionality that previously ran on CPUs
CPUs struggle handling network tasks like DPI above 10 GbE, creating a need for offload at 40+ GbE rates. Adopting an FPGA-based solution is challenging—which is why we provided reference designs and services to help.
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