The Cisco Nexus SmartNIC+ V5P is an FPGA-based network application card, specifically optimized for low-latency and high-density data center applications.
High-density network application card
The device is built around a powerful 16 nm Xilinx Virtex UltraScale Plus (VU5P) FPGA with up to 1.3M logic cells, packaged into a compact, production ready, half-height half-length, PCIe 8x form factor.
High-capacity, low-latency memory
The Xilinx VU5P FPGA includes 36Mbit of block ram and 133Mbit of UltraRAM on chip for low-latency access. The Cisco Nexus SmartNIC+ V5P incorporates an additional 28MB of QDR IV SRAM (30 ns access latency using Cisco Nexus QDR controller IP1), and 9GB of DDR4 DRAM for high throughput access. The DRAM is accessible via a 72 bit wide bus for maximum performance.
High-bandwidth connectivity
The dual QSFP28 cages offer high-speed 2x 40GbE or 2x 100GbE connectivity. The high-density connectivity enables a range of high-performance, directly connected network applications, bypassing the need for traditional switching and multiplexing requirements.
Extensive IP library
Cisco is a specialist in low-latency, high-performance FPGA IP cores.
