FPGA-based PCIe accelerator board optimized for AI, ML, high-bandwidth tasks

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announced a new class of FPGA accelerator card targeting high-performance compute and data acceleration applications. The VectorPath® S7t-VG6 accelerator card features the 7nm Speedster7t AC7t1500 FPGA and offers the industry’s highest performance interfaces available on a PCIe FPGA accelerator card.  The card includes 1x400GbE and 2x100GbE ports and 8 banks of GDDR6 memory with aggregate bandwidth of 4 Tbps making it ideal for high-bandwidth data acceleration applications.

The VectorPath accelerator card was designed for high-performance and high-bandwidth data applications and features the following hardware capabilities:

  • 400GbE QSFP-DD and 100GbE QSFP56 interfaces
  • 8 banks of GDDR6 memory delivering 4 Tbps aggregate bandwidth
  • 1 bank of DDR4 running at 2666MHz with ECC
  • PCIe compliance and certification
  • 20 Tbps two-dimensional network-on-chip (NoC) inside the Speedster7t FPGA
  • 692K 6-input LUTs
  • 40K Int8 MACs that deliver >80 TOps
  • OCuLink – 4-lane PCIe Gen 4 connector for connecting expansion cards

The VectorPath accelerator card includes a full suite of Achronix’s ACE development tools along with BittWare’s board management controller and developer toolkit which includes the API, PCIe drivers, diagnostic self-test and application example designs to enable a rapid out-of-the-box experience.  Designed for prototyping as well as high-volume production applications, the VectorPath S7t-VG6 accelerator card provides designers the ability to process massive amounts of data not possible with previous generations of FPGAs.

The VectorPath S7t-VG6 accelerator card will ship at the beginning of Q2 2020.