Cisco Nexus V9P and V9P-3 FPGA Application SmartNIC Data Sheet
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Highest-density network application card
The Cisco Nexus® V9P and V9P-3 FPGA Application SmartNIC is an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) based network application card, optimized for low latency and high density.
The Cisco Nexus V9P and V9P-3 FPGA Application SmartNIC adapters are equipped with a powerful 16nm Xilinx Virtex UltraScale Plus (VU9P) FPGA with 2.5M logic cells, into a compact, half-height, half-length, PCIe 16x form factor.
High-capacity and low-latency memory
An extensive memory hierarchy for complex, memory-intensive applications.
The Xilinx VU9P FPGA features 75Mbit of block RAM and 270Mbit of UltraRAM on chip. The Cisco Nexus V9P and V9P-3 FPGA Application SmartNIC adapters are also equipped with an additional 9GB of DDR4 DRAM on the board for high throughput access. The DRAM is accessible via a 72-bit-wide bus for maximum performance.
The Cisco Nexus V9P-3 FPGA Application SmartNIC model performs at a higher speed reducing the compile time by 40% over the V9P model compile times, that reduces project build time while increasing network uptime. The improved V9P-3 model logic performance and the faster clocked FPGA helps to eliminate any timing issues and can be programmed to reduce network latency to create a better user experience.
Dual QSFP-DD ports provide up to 400Gbps of full duplex connectivity.
The dual QSFP-DD ports offer high-speed 4x40GbE or 2x200GbE connectivity. Using QSFP-DD breakout cables expands the connectivity to 16x10GbE/25GbE4 connections. This high-density connectivity enables a range of high-performance, directly connected network applications, bypassing the need for traditional switching and multiplexing requirements.
Cisco is a specialist in low-latency, high-performance FPGA IP cores.
We provide you the same high-speed, low-latency IP blocks used in our market leading products, including:
● 10GbE PCS/MAC with ultra-low-latency performance
● Low-latency, high-throughput PCIe DMA engine
● Timing, signaling, and register interfaces, including I2C
● Packet field extractor and frame multiplexer (with source code)
● Asynchronous FIFO and CDC modules (with source code)
Several example designs are also provided to help get design work started and completed quickly.
A standard Linux driver as well as transparent TCP and UDP acceleration and low-level packet access.
The Cisco Nexus V9P and V9P-3 FPGA Application SmartNIC adapters function out of the box as a high-performance network adapter. The entire Cisco Nexus 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. The Cisco Nexus V9P and V9P-3 FPGA Application SmartNIC adapters also support fast and easy firmware updates (without requiring reboots) and vital statistics monitoring (temperatures, light levels, etc.).
Cisco Nexus V9P and V9P-3 FPGA Application SmartNIC adapter
Hardware
16nm Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA:
● V9P XCVU9P-2, V9P-3 XCVU9P-3
● 2.5M System Logic Cells, 2.3M CLBs
● 2Mb total block RAM
● 270Mb UltraRAM
● 32x 32.75Gb/s I/O transceivers (16 connected to QSFP-DDs, 16 connected to PCIe)
DDR4 DRAM:
● 9GBytes
● 72-bit interface, up to 2666MHz
Oscillators:
● 161MHz crystal
● 10MHz temperature compensated crystal
● 10MHz – 750Hz programmable (I2C) crystal
Input/output:
● PPS in/out via MCX connector, 3.3V CMOS, selectable 50ohm termination
● 8x 1.8V CMOS GPIO via header
● 2x bi-color port LEDs
● 12V external supply (GPU adapter) for >75W designs
Programming/debugging:
● Software-based PCIe flash programming utility
● USB to JTAG port
● JTAG header onboard (auto select)
● 1Gbit onboard flash
Performance
PCS/MAC (TX + RX)2:
● 6.2ns (min) @ 10Gbps
● 1Gbps/100Mbps also supported
SERDES/PCS/MAC/CDC (TX+RX):
● Packet trigger, 34ns (min)2
● Full loopback, 50ns (min)
Software latency (raw frame, ½RTT)1:
● 64 bytes – 816ns
● 256 bytes – 1027ns
General
Form factor:
● Low-profile PCI Express Card
● 168x69mm (6.6x2.7in)
Environmental:
● SmartNIC operating temperature: 0 °C to 55 °C
● SmartNIC storage temperature: -40 °C to 70 °C
● FPGA operating temperature: 0 °C to 100 °C
● Operating Relative Humidity: 5% to 90% (non-condensing)
● Storage Relative Humidity: 5% to 95% (non-condensing)
Ports:
● 2x QSFP-DD
● SMA for PPS in/out
Host interface3:
● PCIe x16 Gen 3 @ 8.0 GT/s per lane
Data rates4:
● 200GbE, 100GbE, 50GbE, 40GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, 1GbE, 100M Fast Ethernet
Supported media4:
● Fiber (100GBASE-SR4, 100GBASE-LR4, 40GBASE-SR4, 40GBASE-LR4), QSFP/28 Direct Attach breakout
Note: Suitable forced air cooling is required to operate this product.
Information about Cisco’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives and performance is provided in Cisco’s CSR and sustainability reporting.
Table 1. Cisco environmental sustainability information
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