Bittware 520NX | Compute Acceleration of Demanding AI | Stratix 10 NX2100 | Integrated 8GB HBM2 | 600 Gbps

The Bittware 520NX PCIe FPGA Accelerator Card has 8GB HBM2 and a Stratix 10 NX2100 FPGA which is AI-optimized for high-bandwidth, low-latency artificial intelligence.

This revolutionary accelerator delivers a unique combination of capabilities needed to implement low latency and larger AI models:

High-performance AI Tensor Blocks: 143 INT8 TOPS
Deep Near-Compute Memory: up to 8GB of HBM2
High-Bandwidth Networking: up to 600Gbps board-to-board bandwidth

Features

Intel Stratix 10 NX2100
8GB of 3D stacked HBM2
AI Tensor Blocks
The 520NX is a variant of the 520N-MX with a Stratix 10 NX FPGA instead of MX.

This board can be customized.

Specifications

FPGA: Intel Stratix 10 NX2100 in an F2597 package
8GBytes on-chip High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) DRAM, 410 GB/s (speed grade 2)
Core speed grade -2: I/O speed grade -2
On-board Flash
2Gbit Flash memory for booting FPGA
External memory
- 2x 288-pin DIMM slots each fitted with 16GB modules by default, i.e., 32GB total on board (options up to 256GB total)
- Contact us for QDR-II+ & Intel Optane (3D-Xpoint) DIMM options
Host interface
- x16 Gen3 interface direct to FPGA, connected to PCIe hard IP
QSFP cages
- 4 QSFP28 cages on front panel connected directly to FPGA via 16 transceivers
User programmable low jitter clocking supporting 10/25/40/100GbE
Each QSFP28 can be independently clocked
Jitter cleaner for network recovered clocking
2 QSFP28s have available 100GbE MAC hard IP
OCuLink
2x edge connectors (A, B) @ 12.5G per lane (default); each supports PCIe Gen 3 x8 hard IP, GPIO, and PCIe master and optional input clocking
2x inner connectors (C, D) @ 25G per lane (optional); 1x 100GbE MAC hard IP per OCuLink
Board Management Controller
Voltage, current, temperature monitoring
Power sequencing and reset
Field upgrades
FPGA configuration and control
Clock configuration
Low bandwidth BMC-FPGA comms with SPI link
USB 2.0
PLDM support
Voltage overrides
Cooling
- Standard: double-width active heatsink (with fan)
- Optional: double-width passive heatsink
- Optional: double-width liquid cooling
Electrical
- On-board power derived from 12V PCIe slot & two AUX connectors (one 8-pin, one 6-pin)
Power dissipation is application dependent
Typical max power consumption 225W
Environmental
- Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C
Quality
- Manufactured to IPC-A-610-Class 2
- RoHS compliant
- CE, FCC & ICES approvals
Form factor
- Standard-height PCIe dual-slot board
- 4.376 x 10.5 inches (111 x 266.7 mm)
Development Tools
- FPGA development: BIST - Built-In Self-Test for CentOS 7 provided with source code (pinout, gateware, PCIe driver & host test application)
- Application development: Supported design flows - Quartus Prime Pro (HDL, Verilog, VHDL, etc.)

Product Data

Specifications: BittWare 520NX PCIe FPGA Board. Stratix 10 AI-optimized FPGA with HBM2

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BittWare 520NX PCIe accelerator card with Intel’s Stratix 10 NX2100 FPGA and 8GB of 3D stacked HBM2. — BittWare 520NX is a PCIe card featuring Intel’s Stratix 10 NX2100 FPGA.

BittWare 520NX accelerator diagram showing hardware components e.g. Board Management Controller for system monitoring and control. — Hardware accelerator diagram: BittWare 520NX with Board Management Controller for system monitoring and control.