LDA E4 & C5

FPGA Board-Agnostic Enclosure

LDA e4 and c5 are FPGA board and FPGA vendor-agnostic enclosures that transform any PCIe-compliant FPGA card into a high-end networking device.

Unlike card-in-a-server solutions, LDA enclosures have the board right in the center and all serial links available on it are exposed on the front panel of a compact switch-like device.

e4/c5 devices apply LDA's DSDA™ technology to PCIe and various expansion ports such as FMC connectors, unused SATA links, etc.

Keeping just one PCIe lane for configuration and status reporting and rerouting the remaining links to the front panel, the device exposes up to 48 10G ports from some FPGA boards.

For example: an FPGA board with PCIe x16 can be expanded by 15 extra serial links / 10G Ethernet ports.

There are many boards available today that can utilize the full 48-port capacity of LDA e4 and provide its users with:

  • 48 × 12.5 Gbps ports
  • Full signal recovery, regeneration, and conditioning for each port.
  • Per-port monitoring and troubleshooting features such as a non-intrusive eye-diagram monitor, PRBS pattern generator and checker, and so on.

Device Highlights:

  • 48 ZSFP+ ports
  • 10G Layer 1 replication
  • Flexible operational environment
  • Instruments for advanced FPGA development

Certified Boards

  • Alpha Data
  • Bittware
  • Newwave DV
  • Xilinx

Alpha Data

When hosted by LDA e4 enclosure, FPGA boards from Alpha Data provide the highest number of ports among other low-profile cards and as a result are a popular customer choice.

Highlights

  • 25 G and 10 G Independent Crosspoint Switch fabrics allow flexible data replication scenarios
  • Wide range of CPUs via COM Express Type 10 / Type 6 module
  • Designated precision power control: redundant power supplies, PCIe power uncoupled from the system, fans dependent on power draw
  • Precision clock source (5/10 ppb OCXO)
  • Rapid Start-up (1 sec)
  • Out-of-band management, timestamping and Internal USB ports
  • Short Depth (12″, 1U)
  • Built-in FPGA tools and operating system for programming on-the-fly

Board Specific Parameters

  • ADM-PCIE-9V3
  • ADM-PCIE-KU3

ADM-PCIE-9V3

  • 31 network ports:
    • 8 × 25 GbE
    • 23 × 10 GbE
  • Xilinx® Virtex® Ultrascale Plus™ : VU3P-2 – FFVC1517
  • 2x banks of 1G × 72, DDR4-2400 (16 GiB total), upgradeable to 16 GiB, DDR4-1866 (dual bank devices), per bank (32 GiB total)
  • On-board re-programmable flash memory for embedded configuration
  • On-board JTAG through internal USB port
  • e4 Aux Integration kit: Ultraport SlimSAS™
  • Optional integrated Board Support Package (BSP) including extensive FPGA example designs, plug and play drivers, and a mature Application Programming Interface (API)

ADM-PCIE-KU3

  • 25 10 GbE network ports:
  • Xilinx® Kintex® Ultrascale™ : XCKU060 – FFVA1156
  • ECC-SODIMM : Two 8 GB DDR3 ECC-SODIMM for memory speeds up to 1600 MT/s
  • FLASH : 1 GBit of BPI × 16 configuration flash
  • e4 Aux Integration kit: SATA
  • Reference Design Package available separately

Bittware

LDA e4 platform hosting a range of FPGA boards from Bittware is deployed in various data centers and labs across the world.

Highlights

  • 25G and 10G Independent Crosspoint Switch fabrics allow flexible data replication scenarios
  • Wide range of CPUs via COM Express Type 10 / Type 6 module
  • Designated precision power control: redundant power supplies, PCIe poweruncoupled from the system, fans dependent on power draw
  • Precision clock source (5/10 ppb OCXO)
  • Rapid Start-up (1 sec)
  • Out-of-band management, timestamping and Internal USB ports
  • Short Depth (12″, 1U)
  • Built-in FPGA tools and operating system for programming on-the-fly
  • BittWare BittWorks II software and BMC for remote programming and board monitoring

Board Specific Parameters

  • XUPP3R
  • XUSPL4
  • A10P3S
  • A10PL4
  • 385A

XUPP3R

  • 48 network ports:
    • 16 × 25 GbE
    • 32 × 10 GbE
  • Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale+ VU7P/VU9P/VU11P
  • Board Management Controller for Intelligent Platform Management
  • On-board JTAG access using internal USB port
  • Timestamping support
  • On-board USB-to-serial access through internal USB port
  • e4 Aux Integration kit: Bittware SEP

XUSPL4

  • 23 network ports:
    • 8 × 25 GbE
    • 15 × 10 GbE
  • Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale™ 65/95 or Kintex UltraScale 95
  • Memory: up to 32 GBytes of DDR4 SDRAM with ECC (x72)
  • Board Management Controller for Intelligent Platform Management
  • Precision timestamping support

A10P3S

  • 31 10GbE networking ports
  • Altera Arria 10 GX/SX FPGA and SoC
  • Board Management Controller for Intelligent Platform Management
  • Timestamping support
  • Memory options:
    • up to 40 GBytes of DDR4 SDRAM with ECC
    • up to 144 MBytes QDR-II+

A10PL4

  • 15 10GbE network ports
  • Altera Arria 10 GX FPGA
  • Memory: up to 32 GBytes of DDR4 SDRAM with ECC (x72)
  • Board Management Controller for Intelligent Platform Management
  • Precision clock and timing options

385A

  • Fifteen (15) 10G network ports
  • OpenCL tool flow
  • Arria 10 1150 GX FPGA with up to 1.5 TFlops
  • 8 GB DDR3 on-card memory
  • On-board JTAG access through internal USB port
  • On-board USB-to-serial access through internal USB port
  • Designated Power Control
  • Ultra-fast start-up time
  • Optional 10 ppb OCXO clock source

Newwave DV

LDA e4 hosting FPGA cards from NewWave DV is an ultimate platform for their top of the line IP Core

Higlights

  • 25 G and 10 G Independent Crosspoint Switch fabrics allow flexible data replication scenarios
  • Wide range of CPUs via COM Express Type 10 /Type 6 module
  • Designated precision power control: redundant power supplies, PCIe power uncoupled from the system, fans dependent on power draw
  • Precision clock source (5/10ppb OCXO)
  • Rapid Start-up (1 sec)
  • Out-of-band management, timestamping and Internal USB ports
  • Short Depth (12″, 1U)
  • Built-in FPGA tools and operating system for programming on-the-fly

Board Specfic Parameters

  • 32-Port PS

32-Port PS

  • 32 network ports:
    • 16 × 25GbE
    • 16 × 10GbE
  • Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale+™ VU5P – VU11P
  • Fibre Channel Protocols: RDMA, HSDN, ASM
  • Ethernet Protocols: TCP, UDP, ARP, ICMP, Multicast, Broadcast
  • On-board re-programmable flash memory for embedded configuration
  • On-board JTAG through internal USB port
  • e4 Aux Integration kit: USB Type C

LDA c5: Xilinx VCU118 Edition

LDA c5 is a rare rackmount platform that can host Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA VCU118 Evaluation Kit and deliver its extensive capabilities to the end user in the form of a turn-key production-ready system.

Board Specfic Parameters

  • VCU118

VCU118

  • 48 network ports:
    • 16 × 25 GbE
    • 32 × 10 GbE
  • 2 SATA ports connected to FPGA for storage connectivity. Can be driven outside through back panel.
  • 25G and 10G Independent Crosspoint Switch fabrics allow flexible data replication scenarios
  • Wide range of CPUs via COM Express Type 10 /Type 6 module
  • Designated precision power control: redundant hot-swappable power supplies, PCIe power uncoupled from the system, fans dependent on power draw
  • Precision clock source (5/10 ppb OCXO): reaches every transceiver quad making it extremely development friendly (single TX clock design)
  • Two additional 0.25 ppm tunable directly from FPGA VCTCXOs allow implementing a variety of protocols and standards
  • Six SMA ports (2 general purpose AC coupled I/O, LVDS clock input, LVDS clock output)
  • Rapid Start-up (1 sec)
  • Out-of-band management, timestamping and Internal USB ports
  • Built-in FPGA tools and operating system for programming on-the-fly
  • On-board re-programmable flash memory for embedded configuration
  • On-board JTAG through internal USB port

General Specifications

Ethernet
16 Ports are up to 25.8 Gbps
32 Ports are up TO 12.5 Gbps
Total 48 zSFP+ ports
Full signal recovery, regeneration, conditioning for each port
FPGA board
Any PCIe form factor
Any PCIe FPGA board Manufacture
Any FPGA Vendor
20/50/100 GbE and 10/40 GbE Layer 1 replication
Under 3 ns replication latency
Both front panel input and FPGA board output can serve as a replication source
Replication scenarios: predefined as well as configurable through custom rules
Designated precision power control
FPGA board independent power off / on
Current draw monitoring in real time
Dedicated cooling
10 ppb TCXO clock source
via SMA, FPC and PCIe connectors
Dimensions
16.9″ × 1.71″ × 12"
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Timestamping Ports
2 (Front Panel)
CPU Support
Intel® Atom / Xeon D / Core (via COM Express type 6 or 10)
Storage
2x 2.5″ internal bays
Per port signal monitoring tools
PRBS pattern Generator, checker
Non-intrusive eye monitor
Out-of-band Management
Dedicated ethernet port
Micro USB serial console
Internal USB Ports
Yes
OS
Any Linux distro
Windows
Optional installable LDA Custom Packages
Monitoring
Diagnostics
Configuration
etc.

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