Ethernet adapter card is based on OCP 3.0 form factor
Following the announcement of the Alveo U25 SmartNIC, Xilinx has also introduced an XtremeScale X2562 10/25Gbit Ethernet adapter card based on the OCP Spec 3.0 form factor.
It is designed for high-performance electronic trading environments and enterprise data centres, with sub-microsecond latency and high throughput, combined with ultra-scale connectivity for real-time packet and flow information to thousands of virtual NICs.
Xilinx also announced a proof of concept for what is believed to be the world’s first FPGA-based Open Compute Accelerator Module (OAM). Based on the Xilinx UltraScale+ VU37P FPGA with 8Gbyte of high bandwidth memory (HBM), the mezzanine-based card is compliant with Open Accelerator Infrastructure (OAI). It supports seven 25Gbits per second x-eight links for rich inter-module system topologies for distributed acceleration, says Xilinx.
The X2562 is currently sampling and will be generally available in the second calendar quarter of 2020.
Xilinx develops flexible and adaptive processing platforms from the endpoint to the edge to the cloud. It is the inventor of the FPGA, hardware programmable SoCs, and the ACAP, designed to deliver the most dynamic processor technology in the industry for an adaptable, intelligent and connected world.
