Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N6010/N6011 (N6000-PL)

Flexible Multi-port Ethernet Intel® Agilex Based SmartNIC

The Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N6010/N6011 is a high-performance OEM hardware platform intended for hardware acceleration for mobile 4G and 5G Baseband Units or Distributed Units with two QSFP28 modules. Example: supports up to 4 100MHz carriers Radio Units via 4x 25G eCPRI/CPRI with SFP28 modules, as well as interfacing to a Grand master via QSFP28 at 10/25G.

The card is based on an Intel® Agilex AGFB014, which embeds a Hard Processor System (HPS) with four 64-bit Application Processing Units (ARM Cortex-A53) along with a powerful Programmable Logic part.

The design is set to work in ORAN LLS-C1, C2 and C3 with the intention to be utilized with a 4G/5G IP stack interfacing at 3GPP functional split options 6 for CPRI or 7.2x for eCPRI.

The Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N6011 is supported by the Intel® Open FPGA Stack (OFS). The Intel OFS FPGA Interface Manager (FIM) provides a common developer interface to both application and acceleration function developers and includes drivers, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and an FPGA factory image.

Silicom validates each FPGA SmartNIC N6010/N6011 to support large scale deployments requiring FPGA acceleration. This platform is targeted for market-specific acceleration in applications listed below:

Target Applications

4G/5G Acceleration & Integration
(e.g., vRAN, O-RAN, UPF, CSR, MEC)
NFV (e.g., Contrail, OVS, SRv6)
Media Production (e.g., SMPTE ST 2110, NDI)
VNF (e.g., IPsec, vFirewall)
High-Performance Computing
FinTech

Key features

Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N601x

Intel® Agilex™ AGFB014 FPGA w/ embedded quad core ARM® Cortex-A53
Intel® e810-CAM2 NIC (N6011 only)
2 x 100GbE / 8 x 25GbE / 4 x 25GbE / 8 x 10GbE
PCIe® Gen 4 (x16 or bifurcated x8)
16 GB DDR4 Memory
Time Sync: IEEE-1588 PTP and SyncE

Specifications

Network Interface
IEEE standard	IEEE 802.3 10GE, 25GE, 100GE
Interfaces	Physical interface: 2 x QSFP28/56 slots Supports QSFP28/56 modules with Multimode SR (850nm), single mode LR (1310nm), multimode LRM (1310 nm) Data rate: Each module 100G, 4x25G, 4x10G Support for SyncE
Interfaces
Network	2x100GbE, using QSFP28/56
Host	PCIe 4.0 x 16 (N6011 is bifurcated x8, x8) Support for SMBUS

General Technical Specifications
NIC details	Intel® E810-CAM2 Interfaces to PCIe 4.0 x8 Supports 2x100GE (active/protect), 4x25GE and 8x10GE
FPGA Details	Intel® Agilex™ AGFB014 1.4M Logic Element Fabric Provides Ethernet or Ethernet and Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) interface over QSFP28/56 ports P-Tile – Provides PCIe Gen4 x8 interface to the host Hard Processor System (HPS) DDR4 Memory controllers interfacing to the FPGA fabric Platform Management Communications Interface (PMCI) module
Configuration	Configuration flash can be made to support multiple boot images for automatic fallback to factory default image Upload of FPGA configuration to flash via PCIe Direct FPGA configuration via the onboard JTAG dongle
On-board Memory	8 GB DDR4 memory, with ECC (2 channels) 8 GB DDR4 memory, without ECC (2 channels) 1 GB DDR4 memory for HPS 280 MB Flash memory for non-volatile storage
On-board Clock	PCIe clock: 100 MHz 8 output reprogrammable clock generator Supports network synchronization

Additional Board Support	On-board power and temperature sensors (via SMBus/I2C) FPGA controlled Link and Activity LED for each port. 2 for each QSFP28 Board status LEDs FPGA Reset via host I2C
Environment	Full height, ½ length 111.28 x 167.65 mm with bracket Storage temperature: -40 – 65°C -40 – 149°F Operating temperature (card inlet): -5 – 50°C, 23 – 122°F Operating humidity: 5 – 85% Hardware compliance: RoHS, FCC, CE
Power	Max 125W, above 75W PCIe AUX power must be used Passive cooling Power and temperature monitoring via SMBus/I2C PCIe AUX power connector available
Manageability Features	Full card BMC solution host communication via SMBus (PLDM) FPGA image remote update capability Full security implementation using MAX10 FPGA as RoT
Networking	A configurable packet processor IP core Extensive configuration API Packet forwarding and bridging across network, main host and SoC Parsing, match, and action operations Bandwidth rate limit
Time Synchronization	PTP: Yes, with PTP4L on x86 Support Sync-E/ 1588 standard PLL: ZL30793
Hardware Acceleration	SR-IOV, 256 virtual functions 32 physical functions
Software Support	Open FPGA Stack (IOFS) ContrailOVS SRv6 vFW acceleration 4G and 5G vRAN enablement package DPDK BBDev FlexRAN

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Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N6010/N6011 (N6000-PL)

Flexible Multi-port Ethernet Intel® Agilex Based SmartNIC

Key features

Specifications

Network Interface

Interfaces

General Technical Specifications

Resources and Downloads

Product Data Sheet

Data Sheet_SmartNIC N6011

Data Sheet_SmartNIC N6010

Product Brief

Product Brief_SmartNIC N6011

Product Brief_SmartNIC N6010

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Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N6010/N6011 (N6000-PL)

Flexible Multi-port Ethernet Intel® Agilex Based SmartNIC

Key features

Specifications

Network Interface

Interfaces

General Technical Specifications

Resources and Downloads

Product Data Sheet

Data Sheet_SmartNIC N6011

Data Sheet_SmartNIC N6010

Product Brief

Product Brief_SmartNIC N6011

Product Brief_SmartNIC N6010

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