BittWare IA-440i Agilex™ FPGA Card

BittWare IA-440i Agilex™ FPGA card with 400GbE and PCIe Gen5 x16 is designed for security challenges in a data center, networking, and edge computing workloads. The FPGA features optional hardened, high-speed cryptographic engines. The NIC-sized card balances I/O and memory using the Agilex chip’s unique tiling architecture with a QSFP-DD (400GbE), DDR4 SDRAM, and PCIe Gen5 x16 with CXL support.

Associated Cables

USB/JTAG access requires an accessory kit. To access USB and/or JTAG, accessory cables are needed.

Choose from these options:
USB-only breakout cable: BittWare RS-PL12-UAP-83 Pico-lock to USB A cable
JTAG-only breakout cable: BittWare RS-PL12-JTB-13 Pico-lock to JTAG cable
USB + JTAG breakout card: BittWare ACC-IA-JTUSB-BKO

The combination USB + JTAG breakout card is recommended for development. For deployment, the USB-only breakout cable is recommended. These accessory cables are sold separately.

Features

FPGA
- Intel Agilex AGI023
  - Package R18A
  - Core speed grade -2 XCVR speed grade -2
  - FPGA includes ARM HPS
- Other Agilex FPGA options are available, including
  - XCVR speed grade -1 for CXL (CXL IP is licensed and purchased separately)
  - Hard crypto blocks
On-board Flash with 2Gbit Flash memory for booting FPGA
External memory of 2x banks onboard DDR4, up to 8GB each
Host interface
- x16 Gen5 interface direct to FPGA, connected to PCIe hard IP
- CXL v1.1 (CXL IP is licensed and purchased separately)
QSFP-DD cage
- 400Gbps (8x 50Gbps PAM4)
- PAM4 1x 400GbE, 2x 200GbE, 4x 100GbE, 8x 50GbE
- NRZ 1x 200GbE, 2x 100GbE, 4x 50GbE, 8x 10/25 GbE
- Multi-rate hard MAC supports all combinations
- Jitter cleaner for network recovered clocking
External clocking
- 1 PPS and 10MHz ref clk inputs (in-board)
USB access to BMC, USB-UART
Cooling - standard single-width passive heatsink

Board management controller
- Power sequencing and reset
- Voltage, current, and temperature monitoring
  - Protection shut-down
- Clock configuration
- Low bandwidth BMC-FPGA comms with SPI link
- USB 2.0
- PLDM support
- Card-level security
  - BMC Root of Trust
  - BMC and FPGA secure boot
  - BMC and FPGA secure upgrade
  - Key management
Electrical
- On-board power derived from PCIe slot
- Power dissipation is application-dependent
- Maximum power consumption of 75W
+5°C to +35°C operating temperature range
Quality
- Manufactured to IPC-A-610 Class 2
- RoHS compliant
- CE, FCC, and ICES approvals
Form factor
- Low profile (half-height, half-length) PCIe slot card
- 68.75mm x 167.50mm size