ExaNIC FPGA Development Kit

ULTRA-LOW LATENCY FPGA DEVELOPMENT KIT FOR THE EXANIC

The ExaNIC FPGA development kit opens up the ExaNIC FPGA, allowing customers to take advantage of Exablaze's ultra-low latency 10GbE, 1GbE and DMA IP. By offloading latency critical parts of an application onto the FPGA, customers can eliminate the PCIe bus overhead and achieve true bump-in-the-wire latencies.

The ExaNIC FPGA development kit comes with source for an example application that demonstrates ultra-fast responses to inbound packets, useful in high-frequency trading. Other use cases include deep packet inspection, advanced packet filtering and full line rate packet processing.

The FPGA development kit is fully integrated with our existing software stack, including a network driver and kernel bypass sockets library, allowing customers to progressively offload software functionality onto the FPGA.

Building the example application is as simple as typing make, and the firmware image produced by the build process can be flashed to the card using our firmware update software utility. In addition, a full bus functional model is included with the development kit for design simulation and verification.