ReflexCES XpressSX AGI-FH400G Agilex™ I-Series PCIe Board

Based on an Intel® Agilex™ I-series SoC FPGA

The XpressSX AGI-FH400G Agilex™ I-Series SoC PCIe board is a full height, half length PCIe Network Processing board, featuring the Agilex™ I-Series SoC FPGA and 400Gb Ethernet.

 

The Intel® Agilex™ FPGA board is based on an Intel® Agilex™ I-series SoC FPGA. This device is optimized for applications which are bandwidth intensive and require a high-performance processor interface, supported by the CXL™ standard interface, the PCIe Gen5 x16 interface, and transceiver tiles with data rates up to 116 Gbps.

The Intel Agilex FPGA board is delivered with a 2-slot PCIe active heatsink and is specifically optimized for embedded applications.

Benefits & Features

  • Intel® Agilex™ I-Series SoC FPGA
  • Quad Core ARM® Cortex® A53
  • 2700 KLE
  • PCIe Gen5 x16, CXL™ standard
  • 400GbE (8 x 56 Gbps)
  • 3x independent DDR4 banks
  • 4x HSI connectors (PCIe Gen5 x16 EP/RC)

The very first advantage of the Intel® Agilex™ board is the 400 Gigabit Ethernet capability, specially designed for SmartNIC applications. The FPGA is an Intel® Agilex™ I-Series SoC device.  Agilex™ delivers 2x better fabric performance per watt. Intel® Agilex™I-Series SoC FPGA devices also integrate the quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor to provide high system integration. The Intel® Agilex™ I-Series FPGA has options to integrate Compute Express Link™ (CXL™), an open standard interconnect protocol for high-speed CPU-to-device and CPU-to-memory. This standard is built on the PCIe physical and electrical interface. The FPGA delivers up to 40% lower power for applications in data center, networking, and edge compute. FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) are used to offer a high capacity of logic and memory storage. The System-on-chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit inside the FPGA, most often a CPU processor (central processing unit) and supporting peripherals, that provides more flexibility, integration, and allows the FPGA to better control the board.

 

Our Intel® Agilex™ board offers primary interfaces and components, such as 400 Gb Ethernet, PCIe Gen5 x16 (CXL™ compatible), HSI connectors (offering transceivers for the PCI Express), power supplies, USB 2.0 port (for JTAG, UART, BMC), high-speed transceivers, DDR4 (on-board and SO-DIMM) interfaces and more. Those components are from Intel ®, Micron Technology, Inc., STMicroelectronics and Cypress Semiconductor.

 

The Agilex™ board is full height, half length, 2-slot PCI Express form factor, specially designed to fit into various servers and chassis available on the market, and custom rack systems for embedded applications.

 

The Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, commonly known as PCI Express, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard. Our FPGA board offers up to three a x16 PCI Express slot or two CXL™ standard interface. Added to an Intel® Agilex™ SoC FPGA I-series, this allows our board to be quick and efficient.

 

Reduce time-to-market of your next embedded project with the Agilex™ SoC board, using the Intel® Quartus Prime development tools. The board is supported by ReflexCES firmware, hardware, and software and full documentation package and reference designs.

 

The Intel® Agilex™ board is RoHS and REACH standards compliant.

Block Diagram

Introduction Video

Specifications

FPGA Configuration

  • Intel® Agilex™ I-Series : AGIB027R29A1E2V
  • Including SoC (Quad Core ARM® Cortex® A53)
  • Flash configuration
  • USB 2.0 Hub for JTAG, UART, BMC, USB2

Memory

  • 1x on-board DDR4 (mutual SoC / FPGA), x64 bit bus, 4GBytes up to 2666 MT/s
  • 2x DDR4 SO-DIMM sockets, each capable up to 32GBytes SO-DIMM
  • eMMC or SD Card holder (if used) for SoC

Power

  • 200W max, delivered with 2-slot active heatsink
  • Powered by the PCIe slot and an 8 pin PCIe Aux ATX external connector (additional power)

Board dimensions: Full height half length: 167.7mm x 111.15mm

Operating range: 0°C to 35°C

Storage range: 0°C to 70°C

 

Communication interfaces

  • PCIe Edge Gen5 x16
  • CXL™ standard compatible:
    • Open standard interconnection for high-speed CPU-to-device and CPU-to-memory
    • Built on the PCIe physical and electrical interface
  • 1x QSFP-DD (8x 56G: 400G total, 400GAUI-8)
  • 2x HSI connectors (ARF6-16-L-RA): Total of 16 transceivers for PCIe Gen5 EP/RC, CXL™ standard compatible
  • 2x HSI connectors (ARF6-16-L-RA): Total of 16 transceivers for PCIe Gen5 EP/RC
  • 2x USB-C connectors for HSI Clocks & control signals

Other resources

  • Board Management Controller (MAX®10 device)
  • Programmable PLL

Standards and compliance

  • RoHS/REACH compliant
  • UL certified
  • ISO9001 certified

Deliverables

  • Full height half length 2-slot PCIe board with active heatsink and PCIe bracket
  • Board Support Package: Manuals, HDL reference designs (PCIe Gen5 RC/CXL not tested), 2D drawing
  • DWF/STEP models (upon request)
  • Online support at support.reflexces.com

Ordering Information

  • XpressSXAGI-FH400GT-ES //  Intel® Agilex™ SoC I-Series ES Silicon (AGIB027R29A1E2VR0), 3 banks DDR4
  • XpressSXAGI-FH400GT // Intel® Agilex™ SoC I-Series (AGIB027R29A1E2V), 3 banks DDR4

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