FPGA Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
White Paper FPGA Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Networks Overview Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been shown to be extremely effective at complex image recognition problems.
PCIe FPGA Card
250S+
Near Storage Accelerator with Kintex FPGA
Directly Attached Accelerator & Proxy In-Line Accelerator
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Overview
The 250S+ is a fully-programmable NIC-sized near-storage accelerator featuring a Xilinx UltraScale+ Kintex FPGA. This PCIe Gen 3-capable accelerator card can be added to PCIe or CAPI-enabled server platforms introducing an energy-efficient acceleration capability for applications including:
- Database Acceleration
- In-line Compression/Encryption
- Checkpoint Restarting
- Burst Buffer Caching
The 250S+ is available with a choice of two configurations: up to four M.2 NMVe SSDs coupled on-card to the Xilinx FPGA, OCuLink or MiniSAS-HD break-out cabling allowing the 250S+ to be part of a massively scaled storage array.
Key Features
Up to 4x NVMe drives
Up to 8 GBytes DDR4
KU15 Kintex UltraScale+ FPGA: 1.1 million LCs
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Specifications
FPGA
- Xilinx Kintex UltraScale+
- KU15P in a FFVA1156 package
- Core speed grade -2
- Contact BittWare for other FPGA options
On-board DDR4 SDRAM
- One bank of DDR4 SDRAM x80 bits
- 8GB per bank (4GB version also available)
- Transfer Rate: 2400 MT/s
Host interface
- x8 mechanical PCIe Gen3
Storage options
- Four on-board 960GB NVMe SSD sticks
- Four OCuLink cables
- Four MiniSAS-HD cables
Power supply monitoring & reporting
- Voltage monitoring
- Temperature monitoring
- Fault condition reporting to FPGA
Cooling
- Single-width passive heatsink for FPGA power up to 25W
- Double-width passive heatsink for FPGA power up to 50W
Electrical
- On-card power derived from PCIe slot supplies
- Power dissipation is application dependent
- Typical FPGA power consumption ~25-50W
Environmental
- Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C
Quality
- Manufactured to IPC JSTD-001 Class 3
- RoHS compliant
Form factor
- Half-height, half-length PCIe board
- Dimensions: 167.7 mm x 68.9 mm
- Single or double-width option
- Full-height PCI bracket option
Development Tools
FPGA development
- BIST - Built-In Self-Test for CentOS 7 provided with source code (pinout, gateware, PCIe driver and host test application)
Application development
- Xilinx Tools - Vivado Design Suite HLx Editions: HDL and C/C++ with HLS
- OpenPOWER CAPI SNAP 2.0 for POWER9
Deliverables
- 250S+ FPGA board
- Built-In Self-Test (BIST)
- 1-year access to online Developer Site
- 1-year hardware warranty
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