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Napatech SmartNIC N3070X

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N6470 SmartNIC

Powerful Altera®-based SmartNIC
The Napatech SmartNIC N3070X is a 400G PCIe Gen5 card with Altera’s Agilex™ AGI041 FPGA. The Agilex™ AGI041 FPGA provides hardened 100/200Gbps Ethernet, 3x PCIe Gen 5.0 interfaces, and plenty of resources to support a 400G pipeline for line rate processing of data. One PCIe Gen 5.0 interface connects to the host, whereas the other PCIe Gen 5.0 interfaces support an optional mezzanine card and an expansion port to remote PCIe devices, such as NVMe storage. These powerful capabilities allow for unique offload capabilities, and the N3070X is the perfect solution for network and security data plane offload and acceleration.

Customization on demand
The N3070X offers programmable hardware to tailor the SmartNIC to the most demanding and specific needs in your network, and to modify and enhance its capabilities over the life of the deployment. It is based on the Altera’s Application Stack Acceleration Framework (ASAF) that supports the integration of software and IP from Intel, Napatech, 3rd parties and homegrown solutions. This one-of-a- kind architecture enables hardware performance and the speed of software innovation.

Applications and Use Cases:

  • Artificial Intelligence infrastructure
  • Cloud and edge computing
  • 5G mobile infrastructure
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Fintech and financial services
  • Cybersecurity
  • Monitoring and recording
  • Network test & measurement

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS AND SPECIFICATIONS

FPGA Device

  • Standard FPGA configuration
    • Intel Agilex AGI041 (4M LEs, 1356.1K ALMs, 17.1K M20Ks)
  • FPGA configuration options
    • Intel Agilex AGI022, AGI027

External Memory

  • Standard memory configuration
    • 4×4 GB DDR4 (40b + ECC)
  • Memory configuration options
    • 4×8 GB DDR4 (40b + ECC)
  • 2×2048 Mbit flash memory for boot images

PCI Express Interfaces

  • Host IF (card edge): PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 (32 GT/s) + CXL 2.0
  • Expansion port: PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 (32 GT/s) + CXL 2.0
  • Mezzanine interface: PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 (32 GT/s) + CXL 2.0

High-Speed Network Interfaces

  • 2-ports QSFP-DD
    • QSFP-DD MSA power class 5 (max 10W)
    • 2x200GbE, 4x100GbE

Network Standards

  • IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
  • Ultra Ethernet (UEC) (*)

Form Factor, Power and Cooling

  • Full-height, half-length, dual slot
  • Passive and active cooling options
  • PCI Express 150W-ATX AUX power connector
  • Max 175W power dissipation supported by platform
  • Typical power consumption: TBD

Board Management

  • Secure FPGA image update
  • MCTP over SMBus
  • MCTP over PCIe VDM
  • Dedicated NC-SI RBT internal port
  • PLDM for Monitor and Control (DSP0248)
  • PLDM for FRU (DSP0257)

Operating Environment (passive cooling)

  • Temperature:
    • -5 to +55 deg. C at >= 3.5 m/s airflow
    • -5 to +45 deg. C at >= 2.5 m/s airflow
  • Humidity: 5 – 85%
  • ASHRAE class A2

Operating Environment (active cooling)

  • Temperature: 0 to +45 deg. C at 0 m/s airflow
  • Humidity: 20 – 80%
  • ASHRAE class A2

Regulatory Approvals and Compliances

  • PCI-SIG®, CE, CB, RoHS, REACH, cURus (UL)
  • FCC, ICES, VCCI, RCM

Supported Napatech Software

  • Link-Programmable™
  • Link-Inline™ (*)
  • Link-Capture™ (*)
  • Link-Virtualization™ (*)

(*) Napatech directional roadmap

Napatech SmartNIC N3070X Data Sheet