The Cisco Nexus SmartNIC+ V9P is an FPGA-based network application card, optimized for low latency and high density. The device packs a powerful 16nm Xilinx Virtex UltraScale Plus (VU9P) FPGAs with 2.5M logic cells into a compact, half-height, half-length, PCIe 16x form factor.
High-bandwidth connectivity
The dual QSFP-DD ports offer high-speed connectivity. Using QSFP-DD breakout cables expands the connectivity. This high-density connectivity enables a range of high-performance, directly connected network applications, bypassing the need for traditional switching and multiplexing requirements.
Integrated software library
The Cisco Nexus SmartNIC+ V9P functions out of the box as a high-performance network adapter. The entire SmartNIC software library is available, including the ExaSOCK sockets application acceleration system and the libexanic direct user-space access API. Libexanic provides easy support for low-latency packet TX/RX, managing the FPGA state (through register access), and low-latency TCP/UDP delegated sending of operations for hybrid hardware/software applications.
