LMS ÜberNIC | NIC Cards Leveraging PCIe 5.0 + CXL

Fully Hardware-Accelerated Network Stack

First Use Case Targets Financial Services Industry (FSI)

The First FPGA-Powered CXL NIC

PCIe 5.0 + CXL

BittWare partner Liquid-Markets-Solutions (LMS) have done something unique: moved the full network stack into an FPGA. What’s even better is that FPGA is Agilex I-Series from Intel, with the groundbreaking bandwidth of PCIe 5.0 and low-latency performance of CXL.

Called ÜberNIC, this family of NIC cards is built on BittWare hardware for enterprise-class deployment in datacenters.

PCIe NIC card

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.

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!

Jump to Performance Graph

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.

Future Compatible

Support for latest PCIe 5.0, CXL, and link speeds up to 400G.

Foundation

100% Offload

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

RFC & IEEE Compliant

Fiber Port Density Leader

Single-slot card supports up to 16× 10/25G fiber pairs

Multi-GB On-board Memory

Single-Slot, Compact Form Factor

Tap into the Power of Agilex® 7

Central to the performance gains of ÜberNIC over competitors is the Intel Agilex 7 FPGA. This chip brings the core features like PCIe 5.0 and CXL—plus I/O giving double (or more) the port density of even top competitors.

Performance & Usability

61% Lower Latency, Full RTT <558ns

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

267% Higher Throughput Without Performance Loss

Highly Consistent; 95th Percentile Latency StDev 2.19%

Multi-GB DDR Buffer Ensures Lossless Reception

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

Built on BittWare

BittWare brings enterprise-class products to market using the latest technology such as Agilex 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

Market Data Handling & Line Arbitrage

Data Preprocessing, Filtering, & Enhancement

MAC-based PCAP & Port Spanning

Simultaneous Network I/O Support for SW & HW EUC

Consistent Performance

Even up to 3,000 Mb/s ÜberNIC performs with low latency. The cards can run in a variety of servers supporting PCIe 3/4/5 and CXL as shown in the different lines on the performance graph.

ÜberNIC 95th Percentile RTT Performance Summary

Tested By Naros.TaSR

50,000 Frames Per Throughput Rate | 10GbE | 64B UDP Payload (110B Frame) | Transceiver to Transceiver L2 SOF to SOF via Linux User-Space | Excluding Business Logic

Configuration Overview

Each ÜberNIC configuration is single width and passively cooled.

ÜberNIC Ultra | ÜberNIC Ultra+
Single Width, Low Profile | Up to 8× 1/10/25G Links

ÜberNIC Ultra Wide | ÜberNIC Ultra+ Wide
Single Width, FH ¾L | Up to 16× 1/10/25G Links

Product Features

ÜberNIC is Available in a Variety of Configurations

ÜberNIC

Standard
PCIe 3/4 x16
  • ÜberNIC Bitstream
  • Full Network Stack in Hardware
  • Low Profile (HHHL)
  • Intel Agilex F-Series
    FPGA: AGF 014
  • Link Speeds
    1/10/25/40/50/100 GbE
  • QSFP-DD up to 8× 1/10/25G,
    or 1× 200G, or 2× 100G
  • 8GB DDR4 Total (Two Banks)
Get Pricing

ÜberNIC

Ultra
PCIe 3/4/5 x16 | CXL x16
  • ÜberNIC Bitstream
  • Full Network Stack in Hardware
  • Low Profile (HHHL)
  • Intel Agilex I-Series
    FPGA: AGI 019
  • Link Speeds
    1/10/25/40/50/100/200/400 GbE
  • QSFP-DD up to 8× 1/10/25G,
    or 1× 400G, or 2× 200G, or 4× 100G
  • 16GB DDR4 Total (Two Banks)
Get Pricing

ÜberNIC

Ultra+
PCIe 3/4/5 x16 | CXL x16
  • User-Programmable ÜberNIC
  • Full Network Stack in Hardware
  • Low Profile (HHHL)
  • Intel Agilex I-Series
    FPGA: AGI 023
  • Link Speeds
    1/10/25/40/50/100/200/400 GbE
  • QSFP-DD up to 8× 1/10/25G,
    or 1× 400G, or 2× 200G, or 4× 100G
  • 16GB DDR4 Total (Two Banks)
Get Pricing

ÜberNIC

Ultra Wide
PCIe 3/4/5 x16 | CXL x16
  • ÜberNIC Bitstream
  • Full Network Stack in Hardware
  • Single Slot, FH ¾L
  • Intel Agilex I-Series
    FPGA: AGI 019
  • Link Speeds
    1/10/25/40/50/100/200/400 GbE
  • QSFP-DD up to 16× 1/10/25G,
    or 1× 400G, or 2× 200G, or 4× 100G
  • Up to 64GB DDR4 Total (Two Banks)
Get Pricing

ÜberNIC

Ultra+ Wide
PCIe 3/4/5 x16 | CXL x16
  • User-Programmable ÜberNIC
  • Full Network Stack in Hardware
  • Single Slot, FH ¾L
  • Intel Agilex I-Series
    FPGA: AGI 023
  • Link Speeds
    1/10/25/40/50/100/200/400 GbE
  • QSFP-DD up to 16× 1/10/25G,
    or 1× 400G, or 2× 200G, or 4× 100G
  • Up to 64GB DDR4 Total (Two Banks)
Get Pricing

Get in Touch

Ready to learn more about ÜberNIC? Reach out to BittWare to learn more!

Where to Next?

© Copyright 2023 | Privacy Policy
Code of Conduct Cookie Settings
45 South Main Street, Concord, NH 03301 | 603-406-6200 | Contact