Achronix Semiconductor has released Bridge100, a 120Gbps Infiniband-to-Ethernet programmable platform designed for communications systems designers. The new platform board is built on Speedster 1.5 GHz FPGAs and its picoPIPE technology and 10.3 Gbps SerDes.
According to Achronix, the new reprogrammable Bridge100 platform provides an array of 1.5GHz Achronix SPD60 FPGAs, 8GB of additional on-board memory (upgradeable to 32GB), and two 120Gbps communication ports that provide the user access to the performance, memory, bandwidth, and capacity required in networking applications.
Achronix said that the new Bridge100 platform comes with eight DDR3 modules, a QDRII+ memory, and a NetLogic Search Engine (CAM). This memory is in addition to the 3.3Mb per SPD60 (30 Mb total) embedded in the FPGA devices. These memory resources are available for packet buffering, classification, scheduling and traffic shaping, and statistics gathering.
The company said that the new Bridge100 platform offers two 120Gbps bidirectional interfaces: three QSFP connectors on one side, and 12 XFP connectors on the other. In addition, all Achronix Speedster FPGA features are available, including logic, RAMs, multipliers, SerDes, programmable I/Os and the Achronix patented picoPIPE acceleration technology.
Yousef Khalilollahi, worldwide vice president of sales and marketing at Achronix, said: “Instead of merely claiming to support 100G applications, we have built a system enabling 100G interface between networks of different protocol. Our Bridge100 Platform serves as a connection between different protocols, including Infiniband and Ethernet, to maximise total system performance.”
