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NT400D13 PCIe4 SmartNIC
Programmable

2×200G, 2x100G, 2x40G, 8×10/25G

The Napatech SmartNIC NT400D13 is a 2x200G PCIe Gen4 card with Altera’s Agilex™ AGFB022 FPGA. 18 GB DDR4 SDRAM (16 GB + ECC), PCIe Gen4 16 lanes @ 16 GT/s and 2 × QSFP56 network ports. The Agilex™ AGFB022 FPGA provides hardened 100/200Gbps Ethernet, the PCIe4 ×16 host interface supports full-duplex 2 × 100G or 1 x 200G packet transfer between network ports and server memory. These powerful capabilities allow for unique offload capabilities, and the NT400D13 is the perfect solution for network and security data plane offload and acceleration.

Compatible Software

Link-Programmable™ Software

Link-Programmable™ Software

Link-Programmable™ enables end users and OEMs to deploy their own FPGA IP on Napatech’s industry-proven SmartNIC platform.

NT400D13-SCC SmartNIC

To generate and control the airflow, the Napatech design contains a blower that takes in air from the top and bottom of the SmartNIC, thereby doubling the amount of air and ensuring superior cooling.

Benefits

  • Durable design for extended real-life operation
  • Free choice of server platform
  • Reduced noise and power-consumption as server-fans can run at minimum speed
  • Freedom to pack unlimited FPGA SmartNICs into a standard server

Specs

  • No airflow dependency to server
  • Well-defined cooling of all critical components
  • Guaranteed device hot spot temperatures
  • Maximized airflow, ensuring optimal thermal performance
  • Dissipated energy exhaled outside server through front plate cutouts
  • Significant reduction in temperature drop between FPGA die and heat sink surface
  • Mechanical stiffener enabling higher screw torque for fastening heatsink to the PCB

Compliance

Napatech upholds the highest quality, environmental and safety standards, and complies with all applicable regulations across regions. This helps our customers to realize a seamless integration without delays – and ensures error-free operation throughout the product life cycle.

Ethernet Front Port Compliance

The SmartNIC design maximizes mechanical and electrical front port margin, securing trouble-free operation with the optical or electrical modules of the customer’s choice.

The thermal design is validated dissipating the maximum power level as standardized for the given form factor. Margin on the data interface has been optimized tuning the equalization parameters of the transceivers hosting the front port channel, maximizing EYE margin to the relevant standard.

EMC Compliance

All Napatech designs have passed EMC compliance testing for major regions, including Europe and North America. By ensuring compliance as an integral part of the design, the risk of delays is eliminated. Moreover, the EMC testing has been performed in a mainstream server, potentially directly applicable to the use case.

Environmental Compliance

The end product (server + installed SmartNIC) must adhere to regional environmental legislation. To enable trouble-free server integration, Napatech SmartNICs are manufactured using only materials that fully comply with the current RoHS, REACH and proprietary Tier 1 legislation.

Full compliance from early inception eliminates the risk delays and product withdrawal due to authority intervention.

Event Handling & System Monitoring

In order for the SmartNIC to become an integral part of the server environment and maximize uptime, it needs to monitor and expose key performance metrics to the application during operation. Napatech SmartNICs monitor the following metrics:

  • Blower speed
  • Hot spot temperatures
  • Key supply voltages and currents
  • PCI protocol events
  • General system events

PCI Compliance

With the PCI interface on the SmartNIC dictated by the server plane, the hardware maximizes mechanical and electrical PCI margin, ensuring trouble-free operation in the server and server slot(s) of the customer’s choice. All designs have passed relevant PCI-SIG tests and have been adopted on the PCI-SIG integrators list.

Safety Compliance

To enable trouble-free server integration, Napatech SmartNICs are fully compliant with all applicable safety standards.

By ensuring safety compliance as an integral part of the SmartNIC design, the risk of delays is eliminated. Compliance testing is performed in a mainstream server, potentially directly applicable to the use case.

Conflict Minerals Compliance

To ensure quick and trouble-free server integration, Napatech SmartNICs are manufactured using only materials that fully comply with the relevant Conflict Mineral Legislation. For US based SmartNIC integrators, this facilitates submission of the mandatory Conflict Mineral report to SEC.

Shock & Vibration Robustness

Many server environments expose the SmartNIC to substantial shock and vibration, predominantly during the transportation phase. To ensure trouble-free server integration and operational robustness throughout the product life cycle, validated design aspects include:

  • Cooling enclosure for superior mechanical stiffness
  • Key exposed components are under-filled (glued) to the PCB
  • Shock robustness validated against JESD22-B110A
  • Vibration robustness validated against ASTM D4169-09

Feature Highlights and Specifications

 

Hardware
  • Intel® Agilex™ AGFB022 FPGA
  • 18 GB DDR4 SDRAM (16 GB + ECC)
  • PCIe Gen4 16 lanes @ 16 GT/s
  • 2 × QSFP56 network ports
  • 2x SMA-F, PPS input/output (10 MHz ready HW)
  • 2x MCX (reserved for future)
  • RJ45 1000BASE-T PTP port
  • Stratum-3 compliant TCXO
  • Flash memory with support for two boot images
  • Cooling options and physical dimensions:
    • NT400D13-SCC: Active cooling, Single-slot, full-height, 3/4-length
    • NT400D13-PC: Passive cooling Single-slot, full-height, half-length
  • MTBF according to IEC TR 62380 (UTE C 80-810 –2004):
    • NT400D13-SCC: 497,216 hours
    • NT400D13-PC: 593,730 hours
  • Typical power consumption for 80% of line rate traffic load:
    • NT400D13 with 2x100GBASE-SR4: ~80 W
    • NT400D13 with 2x200GBASE-SR4: ~105 W
Accessories (not included)
  • PCI Express 2×3 (6-pin) AUX power adapter cable
  • PCI Express 12VHPWR AUX power adapter cable
Board Management
  • MCTP over SMBus
  • PLDM for Monitor and Control
  • Built-in thermal protection
Environment for NT400D13-SCC (active cooling)
  • Operating temperature: 0 °C to 45 °C (32 °F to 113 °F)
  • Operating humidity: 20% to 80%
Environment for NT400D13-PC (passive cooling)
  • Operating temperature: –5 °C to 45 °C (23 °F to 113 °F)
  • Operating humidity: 5% to 85%
  • Altitude: < 1,800 m
  • Airflow: >= 3.5 m/s
Regulatory Approvals and Compliances
  • PCI-SIG®, CE, CB, RoHS, REACH, cURus (UL), FCC, ICES, VCCI, RCM

Resources and downloads

Product Data Sheet

NT400D13 SmartNIC Data Sheet

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