Latest FPGA accelerator board targets HPC, HFT and prototyping
The latest FPGA accelerator board from Aldec is for high performance computing (HPC), high frequency trading (HFT) applications and high speed FPGA prototyping. The HES-XCKU11P-DDR4 is a 1U form factor board featuring a Xilinx Kintex UltraScale+ FPGA, a PCIe interface and two QSFP-DD connectors, providing a total of up to 400 Gbits per second bandwidth.
The board can connect with an external DDR4 memory module via a SO-DIMM memory socket. QSFP-DD connectors are also featured and enable network acceleration and wired communication projects.
The Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale+ FPGA is the XCKU11P-FFVE1517 has 653k system logic cells, 597k configurable logic block (CLB) flip-flops, 299k CLB look up tables (LUTs), 21.1Mbit total block RAM, 22.5Mb UltraRAM, and 2,928 DSP slices.
Zibi Zalewski, general manager of Aldec’s hardware division, said: “By combining the benefits of this cost-effective Xilinx FPGA with those of the other resources on our new HES board, we have not only created a compact and powerful product suitable for a variety of complex engineering applications, but also done so at an affordable price. . . for FPGA compute acceleration along with network and storage applications.”
Aldec offers a portfolio of HES FPGA accelerator boards based on the Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+, UltraScale, Virtex-7 families and Microchip PolarFire and SmartFusion2 families. The boards are architected to allow for easy expansion using standardised FMC and BPX daughter card connectors.
The HES-XCKU11P-DDR4’s FMC HPC connector is compliant with the ANSI/VITA 57.1 standard and provides easy extension to similarly compliant peripherals.
The HES-XCKU11P-DDR4 joins Aldec’s range of FPGA accelerators and prototyping boards which also features an FMC HPC connector for interfacing with Aldec’s FMC daughter cards. The range also includes what is claimed to be the industry’s widest range of FPGA mezzanine cards, the newest addition of which is the FMC-NVMe high-bandwidth, low-latency memory extension card.
Aldec is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, USA. It specialises in electronic design verification and offers a patented technology suite including RTL design, RTL simulators, hardware-assisted verification, SoC and ASIC prototyping, design rule checking, CDC verification, IP cores, requirements lifecycle management, DO-254 functional verification and military/aerospace solutions.
