High Performance Computing

The goal of the M2DC project is to develop a new class of low-power TCO-optimized appliances with built-in efficiency and dependability enhancements, easy to integrate with a broad ecosystem of management software and fully software-defined to enable optimization for a variety of future demanding applications in a cost-effective way.

In this project, REFLEX CES developed the Stratix 10 FPGA SoC module (COMXpressSX) for acceleration (specifications, hardware development in COM Express form factor, firmware, middleware, and various Board Support Package including OpenCL), and also two types of mechanical chassis where several boards are included.

REFLEX CES product board is named COMXpressSX Stratix 10 board.

Design Gateway’s NVMe Host Controller IP is designed to connect directly with Ultra High Speed NVMe SSDs without a CPU, OS, device driver or external DDR memory. It’s the best solution for applications which require ultra high speed performance, multi channel NVMe interfaces and compact systems. The IP core includes a reference design for the REFLEX CES Alaric Arria 10 board to shorten development time.

Key features

• Application layer implemented in FPGA logic, no need for CPU/OS
• Supports PCIe Gen2 and Gen3 x4 M.2 SSDs
• Built-in optimized PCIe Bridge
• Very low FPGA resource utilization, only ~1,200ALMs
• FAT32 IP and Linux reference design available

See the FPGA + NVMe IP core demo video on Alaric Arria 10 SoC Instant DevKit !

Design Gateway’s SATA IP core provides a link layer to implement SATA channels to Intel FPGAs. It supports SATA 3.0 (6Gbps) SSDs. It can connect to SSD/HDD without external PHY chips. The IP core includes a reference design for the REFLEX CES Alaric Arria 10 board to shorten development time.

Key features :

•  Compliant with SATA 3.0 6Gbps
•  Supports both Host and Device side
•  FAT32-IP & Host-IP is available for pure hardware Host controller without CPU/OS
•  AHCI-IP for Linux reference design available
•  Demo available on Alaric Instant-DevKit

See the FPGA + SATA IP core 4ch RAID demo video on Alaric Arria 10 SoC Instant DevKit !