Stratix V GX Development Kit

High-End FPGA Board to address finance industry needs.

Enyx is developing a Stratix V PCI-Express board, to be plugged into a standard server to answer the following needs:

Low-latency network feeds processing using an FPGA device.
Very high speed hardware algorithms hosting.
High bandwidth networking interfaces for in and out network connections.
Ultra Low-latency memory access coupled with high bandwidth memory access.
Scalable parallel processing.
Low Latency Hardware-Software communications.

All these key features are needed to build hardware market feed handlers, in-hardware trading algorithms, and in-hardware order execution gateways.

Technical Specifications
Bloc Diagram

Featured device	Altera Stratix V 5SGXEA7N2F45C2N 622 000 Logic Elements, 234 750 Adaptive Logic Modules (ALMs), 642 000 Registers, 57 Mb internal memory, 512 18×18 Hardware multipliers, 256 27×27 Digital Signal Processing Blocks, 28 PLL for digital clocks synthesis.
Memory devices	High Density / High Bandwidth memory: 4 x 4 Gb DDR3-1600 @ 800 MHz memory Organized in two separate banks with 16 bit data bus. Total Bandwidth = 6,4 GBytes/sec. Total Density = 2 GBytes. Low Latency / High Bandwidth memory: 8 x 144Mbit QDR II+ SRAM Memory @ 550 MHz. Organized into 8 separate banks. 4 banks with x18 data width, 4 banks with x36 data width. Memory latency: 25 ns. Simultaneous write and read operation. Total memory array bandwidth = 240 Gbits/sec reading + 240 Gbits/sec writing. Total Density = 144 MBytes. Non-Volatile Flash memory device: 1 x 256Mbit SPI flash memory to hold FPGA bitstream configuration and networking interfaces MAC addresses.
Networking Interface	4 x SFP+ ports for 1 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s Ethernet fiber or copper applications. 3 x QSFP+ ports for 40 Gb/s Ethernet and PCI- Express 3.0 4x External Cabling applications.
Internal Buses	PCI Express Generation 3.0 x8 interface. Proprietary inter-board communication bus to link two boards together at 62,5 Gb/sec.
Power supply	Standard 6-pin PCI-Express power supply connector. Standard Fan speed / temperature / voltage mo- nitoring feature via SMBus.
Form factor	PCI Express Standard profile, 3⁄4 length using 1 PCI- Express slot in standard configuration, 2 slots for additional SFP+ ports and leds.

High-End FPGA Board to address finance industry needs.

Featured device

Altera Stratix V 5SGXEA7N2F45C2N

Memory devices

High Density / High Bandwidth memory: 4 x 4 Gb DDR3-1600 @ 800 MHz memory

Low Latency / High Bandwidth memory: 8 x 144Mbit QDR II+ SRAM Memory @ 550 MHz.

Non-Volatile Flash memory device: 1 x 256Mbit SPI flash memory to hold FPGA bitstream configuration and networking interfaces MAC addresses.

Networking Interface

4 x SFP+ ports for 1 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s Ethernet fiber or copper applications.

3 x QSFP+ ports for 40 Gb/s Ethernet and PCI- Express 3.0 4x External Cabling applications.

Internal Buses

PCI Express Generation 3.0 x8 interface.

Proprietary inter-board communication bus to link two boards together at 62,5 Gb/sec.

Power supply

Standard 6-pin PCI-Express power supply connector.

Standard Fan speed / temperature / voltage mo- nitoring feature via SMBus.

Form factor

PCI Express Standard profile, 3⁄4 length using 1 PCI- Express slot in standard configuration, 2 slots for additional SFP+ ports and leds.

Non-Volatile Flash memory device: 1 x 256Mbit SPI flash memory to hold FPGA bitstream
configuration and networking interfaces MAC
addresses.

4 x SFP+ ports for 1 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s Ethernet
fiber or copper applications.

3 x QSFP+ ports for 40 Gb/s Ethernet and PCI-
Express 3.0 4x External Cabling applications.

Proprietary inter-board communication bus to link
two boards together at 62,5 Gb/sec.

Standard 6-pin PCI-Express power supply
connector.

Standard Fan speed / temperature / voltage mo-
nitoring feature via SMBus.

PCI Express Standard profile, 3⁄4 length using 1 PCI-
Express slot in standard configuration, 2 slots for
additional SFP+ ports and leds.