BittWare IA-840F PCIe Agilex™ FPGA Cards

BittWare IA-840F PCIe Agilex™ FPGA Cards with QSFP-DD and MCIO are designed to deliver significant performance-per-watt improvements for next-generation data center, networking, and edge computing workloads. I/O features include the Agilex chip’s unique tiling architecture with dual QSFP-DDs (4× 100G), PCIe Gen4 x16, and three MCIO expansion ports for diverse applications. BittWare IA-840F PCIe Agilex FPGA Cards support Intel oneAPI™, which enables an abstracted development flow for dramatically simplified code reuse across multiple architectures.

Features

  • Thermal cooling options
    • Passive
    • Active
    • Liquid
  • HDL developer toolkit
    • API
    • PCIe drivers
    • Application example designs
    • Diagnostic self-test
  • QSFP-DDs for 4x 100G or 16X 1/25G
  • Sophisticated Board Management Controller (BMC)
  • Support for Intel oneAPI unified software programming environment
  • Intel Agilex FPGA with up to 2.6M logic elements
  • Multiple expansion ports for additional PCIe, storage, or network I/O

Specifications

  • FPGA
    • Intel Agilex
      • AGF027 in an R2581A package
      • Core speed grade -2: I/O speed grade -2
  • 2Gbit On-board Flash memory for booting FPGA
  • External memory
    • 3x 288-pin DIMM slots, each supporting up to 128GB DDR4 SDRAM modules (up to 384GB total)
    • Designed-in support for other DIMM modules such as QDR SRAM and Optane
  • x16 Gen4 host interface directly to FPGA, connected to PCIe hard IP
  • QSFP-DD cages
    • 2 QSFP-DD cages on the front panel connected directly to FPGA via 16 transceivers
    • User programmable low jitter clocking supporting 10/25/40/100GbE
    • Each QSFP-DD can be independently clocked
    • Jitter cleaner for network recovered clocking
    • Multi-rate hard MAC+FEC for 10/25/100GbE
  • MCIO
    • 2x edge connectors supporting 8x 16G plus GPIO sidebands; supports 4x Gen4 x4 PCIe root complexes, 2x Gen4 x8 endpoints, or 1x Gen4 x16 root complex or endpoint
    • 1x inner connector supporting 8x 25G plus GPIO sidebands
  • 1 PPS and 10MHz reference clock, front panel inputs
  • Micro USB, USB access to BMC, USB-JTAG, USB-UART
  • Board management controller
    • Voltage, current, temperature monitoring
    • Power sequencing and reset
    • Field upgrades
    • FPGA configuration and control
    • Clock configuration
    • Low bandwidth BMC-FPGA comms with SPI link
    • USB 2.0
    • PLDM support
    • Voltage overrides
  • Cooling
    • Standard: double-width passive heatsink
    • Optional: double-width active heatsink (with fan)
    • Optional: double-width liquid cooling
  • Electrical
    • On-board power derived from 12V PCIe slot & two AUX connectors
    • Power dissipation is application dependent
    • Typical max power consumption TBD
  • +5°C to +35°C operating temperature range
  • Quality
    • Manufactured to ISO9001:2015 IPC-A-610-Class III
    • RoHS compliant
    • CE, FCC, and ICES approvals
  • Form factor
    • Standard-height PCIe dual-slot board
    • 4.376" x 10.5" (111mm x 266.7mm)

Compliances

           •  FCC (USA) 47CFR15.107 / 47CFR15.109
           •  CE (Europe) EN 55032:2015 / EN 55035:2017 / EN 61000-3-2:2019 + A1:2021 / EN 610003-3:2013 + A1:2019
             UKCA (United Kingdom) BS EN 55032:2015 / BS EN 55035:2017 / BS EN 61000-3-2:2019 + A1:2021 / BS EN 610003-3:2013 + A1:2019
           •  ICES (Canada) ICES-003 issue 7
           •  CE (Europe) EN IEC 62368-1:2018 / EN IEC 62368-1:2020 + A11:2020
           •  UKCA (United Kingdom) BS EN IEC 62368-1:2018 / BS EN IEC 62368-1:2020 + A11:2020
           •  CB scheme certificate No. DK-141340-UL
             RoHS compliant to the 2011/65/EU + 2015/863 directive

Block Diagram

BittWare IA-840F PCIe Agilex™ FPGA Cards
Published: 2020-12-11 | Updated: 2025-10-15