Nallatech, a leading supplier of high-performance COTS FPGA solutions, today announced availability of the PCIe-280, an 8-lane PCI Express 2.0 FPGA accelerator card boasting the highest sustained host bandwidth available on the market. Customers deploying the PCIe-280 can increase application performance by harnessing up to 5GByte/sec of sustained host bandwidth. The PCIe-280 is the latest product to be introduced to Nallatech’s highly successful Embedded PCI Series of FPGA COTS solutions and is targeted at signal intelligence, network security and algorithm acceleration applications.
The PCIe-280 features an onboard Xilinx Virtex-5 user FPGA directly coupled to a high bandwidth, flexible memory configuration that includes ECC and parity protection. Two independent banks of QDR-II SRAM provide 8GBytes/sec of sustained, random access memory bandwidth. Up to two banks of DDR2 SDRAM memory provide 4GBytes/sec of deep storage local to the user FPGAs. Thirty-two high speed serial I/O links are exposed at the top of the card allowing multiple PCIe-280 cards to be interconnected via low latency point-to-point links. These deterministic datapaths are independent of the PCI Express bus and host operating system - an ideal way of scaling applications.
“Market demand for FPGA-attached server and blade platforms is growing rapidly as customers begin to deploy hybrid computing platforms in greater volumes,” said Craig Petrie, Product Manager at Nallatech. “Sustained host bandwidth performance is a critical parameter for many customer applications. The PCIe-280 offers on average five times greater host bandwidth than competitive offerings. “
The PCIe-280 is compatible with high density server and blade centre platforms from leading OEMs such as Cray, Dell, HP, IBM, SGI and Supermicro. Optimized VHDL memory controller IP cores and reference designs are included as part of the standard product deliverables along with driver and API source code for 64-bit Linux operating systems. Onboard FPGA, memory and I/O can be increased through population of compatible DIME-II modules.
About Nallatech
Nallatech, a subsidiary of Interconnect Systems, Inc. (www.isipkg.com), is a leading supplier of accelerator computing solutions. Nallatech designs and manufactures FPGA products for high performance computing applications and rugged embedded computing platforms. Customers benefit from lower costs, reduction in size, weight and power and improved performance. For further information, visit www.nallatech.com, or call (805) 383- 8997 (North America) or +44 1236 789 567 (Europe).
