Zynq™ Ultrascale+™ SmartNIC – 10G/40G

• PCIe Gen3 ×8 Host Interface
• 4 x 10GbE SFP+ cages
• Standard Full-Height, Half-Length, Single Slot with Active Cooling PCIe card
• PS: Quad Arm Cortex-A53 @1.5GHz, Dual Cortex-R5 @600MHz
• PL: 504K system logic cells ,230K LUTs, 312 BRAM, 96 Ultra RAM, 1728 DSP slices
• PS – Single 8GB, 64b + 8b ECC DDR4 Channel@ 2133 Mhz
• PL – Single 1GB, 16b DDR4 Channel @ 2133 Mhz
• Storage: 8GB eMMC Flash + microSD slot
• Connectivity/Debug: Micro-USB, JTAG header
• Dual Onboard Temperature Sensors
• One Wire Authenticator
• Onboard active fan

• PCIe Slot: Gen3 ×8 FHHL
• Disk Space: At least 50GB available
• RAM: Minimum 8GB
• BIOS Settings: Enable IOMMU, Hugepages, PCI Reallocation, Disable PCI-ASM
• Supported OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, RedHat 8
• Supported Libraries & Applications: LinuxPTP, DPDK

Platform, Drivers and Applications

• OS and Supported Applications
• Operating System: Linux (RHEL8 OS, Ubuntu)
• Base application: DPDK, Python, Meson, Ninja
• Packet Generation: Pktgen-DPDK, TRex
• Packet Capture: Tcpdump & libpcap
• Software drivers:
  • For an IOMMU enabled device: VFIO – PCI

• Packet Size 64 bytes to 9600 bytes
• Line Rate Performance:
  • 1 × 10GbE
  • 4 × 10GbE
• Supported IPs are PCIe Hard IP, Ethernet Transceiver IP and Application Block.
• User-programmable Application Block Region with dedicated
• control and streaming interfaces
• DMA engines operate based on descriptors.
• Hardware checksum offload, VLAN tagging and RSS (flow hashing).
• Integrated Linux kernel mode driver for seamless netdev stack integration.

• Packet Size 64 bytes to 9600 bytes
• Line Rate Performance:
  • 1 × 10GbE
  • 4 × 10GbE
• Supported IPs are QDMA, MAC, Packet Adapter, System Management Wizard, Clock Wizard.
• PL based solutions
• Two dedicated User Logic boxes (250 MHz QDMA – Packet Adapter, 322 MHz Packet Adapter – MAC)
• DMA engines operate based on the descriptors
• AXI-based 10G and 40G MAC subsystem
• PCIe-compliant scatter/gather transfers are supported through the Xilinx QDMA engine, validated for both 10GbE and 40GbE configurations.
• RTL plugins for AXI-lite and AXI4-stream interfaces
• Monitoring Temperature and voltage with dynamic control of data transfer to the SmartNIC.

• Link Status, speed and duplex configuration
• Promiscuous mode
• MTU updates with Jumbo frame support
• Flow control, Unicast MAC filter
• Fast mbuf free
• VLAN filter, SR-IOV

Design

• L2 / L3 forward QoS framework
• Packet Generation
• IP Pipeline for flow classification / firewall
• ACL – Access Control List
• Crypto Framework

NIC Standards

• IEEE 802.3 10G, 40G Ethernet