




Presentation of the Intel® Agilex™ board
The XpressSX AGI-FH400G Agilex™ I-Series SoC PCIe board is a full-height, half-length PCIe Gen5 Network Processing board, featuring the Agilex™ I-Series SoC FPGA and 400 GB Ethernet.
The Intel® Agilex™ board is based on an Intel® Agilex™ I-series SoC FPGA. This device is optimized for bandwidth-intensive applications that require a high-performance processor interface, supported by the CXL™ standard interface, the PCIe Gen5 x16 interface, and transceiver tiles with data rates of up to 116 Gbps.
The FPGA board is delivered with a 2-slot PCIe active heatsink and is specifically optimized for embedded applications.
Target markets are Security, SmartNIC, and Networking Acceleration.
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The main advantage of the Intel® Agilex™ board is the 400-Gigabit Ethernet capability, specially designed for SmartNIC applications.
The FPGA is an Intel® Agilex™ I-Series SoC device. Intel® Agilex™ I-Series SoC FPGA devices also integrate the quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor to provide high system integration.
The Intel® Agilex™ I-Series FPGA has options to integrate Compute Express Link™ (CXL™), an open standard interconnect protocol for high-speed CPU-to-device and CPU-to-memory. This standard is built on the PCIe physical and electrical interface.
The FPGA delivers up to 40% lower power for applications in data centers, networking, and edge computing.
FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) are used to offer high-capacity logic and memory storage.
The system-on-chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit inside the FPGA, most often a CPU (central processing unit) processor and supporting peripherals, that provides more flexibility and integration, and allows the FPGA to better control the board.
Our Intel® Agilex™ board offers primary interfaces and components, such as 400 Gb Ethernet, PCIe Gen5 x16 (CXL™ compatible), HSI connectors (offering transceivers for PCI Express), power supplies, a USB 2.0 port (for JTAG, UART, BMC), high-speed transceivers, DDR4 (on-board and SO-DIMM) interfaces and more. These components are from Intel®, Micron Technology, Inc., STMicroelectronics, and Cypress Semiconductor.
The Agilex™ board has a full height, half-length, 2-slot PCI Express form factor, specially designed to fit into various servers and chassis available on the market, as well as custom rack systems for embedded applications.
The Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, commonly known as PCI Express, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard. Our FPGA board offers up to three PCI Express x16 slots or two CXL™ standard interfaces. Added to an Intel® Agilex™ SoC FPGA I-series, this makes our board quick and efficient.
Reduce time to market of your next embedded project with our Agilex™ SoC board, using the Intel® Quartus Prime development tools. We draw on our firmware, hardware, and software skills, and full documentation package and reference designs to create our boards.
The Intel® Agilex™ board is RoHS and REACH standard compliant.
Our Intel® Agilex™ board is specially designed for customer needs and specifications.
Our sales team is available to advise you on the best solution to meet your requirements. Contact us at sales@reflexces.com.
FPGA Configuration
Memory
Power
Board dimensions: Full height half length: 167.7mm x 111.15mm
Operating range: 0°C to 35°C
Storage range: 0°C to 70°C
Communication interfaces
*Use of CXL™ features might require separate CXL™ IP license purchase. Please contact Intel® for details.
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Standards and compliance
Additional PCIe Gen5 x16 daughter card
The XpressSX AGI-FH400G board needs to be inserted in a PCIe Gen5 compatible server in order to deliver the full PCIe Gen5 x16 performances.
In case the user is only using a PCIe Gen4 compatible server, the XpressSX AGI-FH400G is delivered with this PCIe Gen4 x16 daughter card. This way, the sytem will achieve 2x Gen4 x16 performances similar to PCIe Gen5 x16, using two R-Tile PCIe Hard IPs inside the FPGA.
The daughter card also supports x8x8 bifurcation mode.
Part number: NDK-PROF-SUPPORT
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Deliverables
Ordering Information
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Target Network Applications
Hardware acceleration of precise network monitoring, IDS/IP systems, next generation firewalls, test equipment, Anti DDoS and other time-critical networking applications.
Only one card for 10, 40, 100, 200 and 400 GE link speeds.
Network monitoring probes
▪ high-speed packet capture with up to 512 receive queues, DPDK support |
Security devices
▪ Hardware filters and pattern matching to accelerate IDS/IPS systems
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Design services
The card is prepared for custom hardware acceleration in FPGA We provide FPGA design based on high-speed 400 Gb IP cores for: ▪ packet headers parsing (Ethernet, ICMP, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, etc.), |