




Presentation of the Intel® Agilex™ board
The XpressSX AGI-FH401G 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.
A single board supports 10G, 40G, 100G, 200G, and 400G Ethernet, ensuring future-proof flexibility across diverse deployment environments.
Target markets include Security SmartNICs, high-performance networking, and FPGA-based acceleration.
reflex ces and DYNANIC (formerly BrnoLogic) have partnered to deliver a complete SmartNIC solution based on this powerful board. The DYNANIC provides line-rate packet processing, deep packet inspection, and inline telemetry offload – addressing the increasing demands of AI-era networking and cybersecurity.
This joint solution enables advanced use cases such as encrypted traffic visibility, real-time threat detection, and accelerated virtualized network functions (VNFs) directly on the FPGA fabric.
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.
Start your design from standard NIC
Easy to use Development Framework
-> More details as well as sources of the open-source development framework can be found here: https://www.liberouter.org/ndk/
-> License for the use of Ultra-fast DMA IP Core can be obtained here: https://support.brnologic.com/
DYNANIC delivers a universal, high-speed packet processing pipeline tailored for the reflex ces XpressSX AGI-FH401G board. This wire-speed FPGA-based solution enables full utilization of the altera® Agilex™ I-Series SoC without requiring any prior FPGA development experience.
The FPGA pipeline is fully pre-integrated and controlled through a standardized and open-source software stack, based on the DPDK RTE Flow API. Applications can define flow rules and actions using just a few lines of code in C++ or Python, eliminating the need for low-level HDL development and drastically accelerating time-to-market.
Unique features of DYNANIC solution on XpressSX AGI-FH400G :
This solution is particularly suited for demanding SmartNIC, network observability, and cybersecurity use cases — including real-time threat detection, encrypted traffic classification, NFV/VNF acceleration, and AI/ML-powered packet inspection.
The DYNANIC SmartNIC stack is production-ready and immediately available for deployment on the XpressSX AGI-FH400G.
➡️ Available now — learn more or download the solution directly at www.dyna-nic.com/reflexces
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.
Other resources
Standards and compliance
Additional PCIe Gen5 x16 daughter card
The XpressSX AGI-FH401G board is delivered with accessories : a PCI Edge Gen5 x16 daughter card, two HSI cables and a USB-C cable.
This PCIe Edge Gen5 x16 daughter card needs to be inserted in a PCIe Gen5 compatible server to deliver the full PCIe Gen5 x16 performances.
The daughter card can also be used in PCIe Gen4 slot in case the server is not supporting Gen5, and it also supports x8x8 bifurcation mode.
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Ordering Information
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ECCN Number : 5A002.a
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