Xilinx Alveo U25 SmartNIC Accelerator Card - PCI Express 3.0 x16 - 2 Port(s) - Optical Fiber - 25GBase-X - Plug-in Card
For cloud architects building modern data centers, the Alveo U25 provides a comprehensive SmartNIC Platform that brings true convergence of network, storage, and compute acceleration functions onto a single platform.
The U25 SmartNIC platform is based on a powerful FPGA, enabling hardware acceleration and offload to happen inline with maximum efficiency while avoiding unnecessary data movements and CPU processing. The U25 programming model supports both high-level network programming abstractions such as HLS and P4, as well compute acceleration frameworks such as Vitis™ to enable both Xilinx and 3rd party accelerated applications.
A Powerful SmartNIC
The U25 delivers ultra-high throughput, small packet performance and low-latency. The host interface supports standard NIC drivers as well as Onload® kernel bypass to provide both TCP and packet-based APIs for network application acceleration. IEEE1588v2 precision timing protocol (PTP) is provided for applications that require synchronized time stamping of packets with single-digit nanosecond accuracy.
A Programmable Fabric
The U25 SmartNIC contains a programmable FPGA handling all network flows. Each flow can be inpidually delivered to the host and/or streamed in hardware to through bump-in-the-wire network acceleration functions and/or compute acceleration kernels for application processing within the FPGA.
A Platform for Hardware Accelerated Clouds
Cloud service providers are deploying SmartNIC fabrics to achieve virtual switching and micro segmentation of services that scale linearly with CPU cores and network links. The U25 is a platform for the industry's first converged SmartNIC fabric, including shrink-wrapped applications.
