Orion II

The Next Generation of LDA's AMD Versal™ Premium FPGA Board

LDA Technologies delivers the next in its series of AMD Versal Premium FPGA boards. Featuring a unique modular design, ultra-low latency SRAM, and LDA's signature quad jitter attenuators.

Featuring a customized I/O mezzanine card, the LDA Orion II enables tailored I/O configurations to meet individual customer requirements. This includes various types and number of ports, additional functionalities like L1 support, or custom ASICs provided by the customers.

Customers also have the flexibility to design and manufacture their own I/O mezzanine card according to specifications provided by LDA, should their work processes require it.

The board includes 432 MB of onboard ultra-low latency static RAM, making it perfect for high-frequency trading, high-performance computing, and various crypto applications.

LDA Orion II boards are available with VP1402, VP1502, or VP1552 FPGA chips.

Common implementations:

  • High Frequency Trading: Versal VP1552 FPGA with all GTYP transceivers, optional hardwired ultra-low latency static RAM and PCIe 5.0 support.
  • High Speed Connectivity: Versal VP1402 FPGA with all GTM transceivers supporting up to 9 400 Gbps Ethernet cores (see AMD product selection guide for all other options regarding 50/100/200 Gbps Ethernet support).
  • High Speed Packet Processing: Versal VP1502 FPGA with mixture of GTM and GTYP transceivers supporting up to 3 400 Gbps Ethernet cores and variety of lower speed interfaces, as well as hardwired PCIe 5.0 support.

AMD Versal Premium series FPGAs are a heterogeneous compute platform engineered to help users reach the highest acceleration levels for a wide range of compute-intensive data center workloads by providing the highest compute density, custom memory hierarchy, and massive on-chip memory.

Specifications

FPGA
AMD Versal Premium Series:
• VP1402-2 (Medium Speed Grade)
• VP1402-3 (Fastest Speed Grade)
• VP1502-2 (Medium Speed Grade)
• VP1502-3 (Fastest Speed Grade)
• VP1552-2 (Medium Speed Grade)
• VP1552-3 (Fastest Speed Grade)
SRAM
3.456 Gb (432 MBytes) 675 MHz ultra-low latency static RAM (6 clock cycle latency).
DDR4
16 GB LPDDR4 memory.
Clocking
2x SI5363 ultra-low jitter cleaner clock generators.
0.2 ppm TCXO clock source.
I/O Interfaces
2x Samtec AcceleRate® Connectors (16x serial channels) supporting up to 56 Gbps data rates.*
PCIe:
• Single x16 Gen 3/Gen 4 OR
• Dual x8 Gen 5.
48 SerDes channels via Mezzanine card.
*Data rates supported vary by chip, see AMD specifications for more information.
Mezzanine Card
4x QSFP DD ports supporting 10/25 Gbps NRZ and 56/112 Gbps PAM4.*
Custom Mezzanine cards available, please contact LDA for more information.
*Data rates supported vary by chip, see AMD specifications for more information.
Timing
2x MMCX PPS Input ports support 1 Hz and 10 MHz.
Management
Onboard USB JTAG.
Management controller with onboard CLI and API.
Micro USB or PCIe SMBUS communication.
Onboard Micro SD Card with integrated USB card reader.
Onboard QSFP Diagnostics software.

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