Today, Intel announced the Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA, the industry’s first field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated high-bandwidth memory DRAM (HBM2). By integrating HBM2, Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs provide up to 10 times the memory bandwidth of a standalone DDR memory solution. With its powerful bandwidth capabilities, Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs can be used as basic multifunction accelerators for high performance computing (HPC), data center, network function virtualization (NFV) and broadcast applications that require hardware accelerators to promote large-scale data movement and Flow Data Pipeline Frame Speed. xc3s200-4tqg144c

In HPC environments, the ability to compress and decompress data before and after mass data movement is critical. HBM2-integrated FPGAs compress and accelerate larger data movements than stand-alone FPGAs. In high performance data analytics (HPDA) environments, streaming data pipeline frameworks such as Apache * Kafka and Apache * Spark Streaming require real-time hardware acceleration. The Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA can read / write data and encrypt / decrypt data (in real time) at the same time without adding to the host CPU resources.

Reynette Au, vice president of marketing for Programmable Solutions at Intel, said: “To efficiently accelerate these workloads, we need to ensure that memory bandwidth is in sync with the data surge.We designed the Intel Stratix 10 MX Series to provide the HPC and HPDA markets with FPGA-based New multi-function data accelerator. ” xc2v1000-5fg456c

With integrated HBM2, the Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA family offers up to 512 GB / second of memory bandwidth. HBM2 vertically stacks the DRAM layer using through-silicon (TSV) technology. These DRAM layers are stacked on a base layer and the high-density microbumps are used to connect the base layer to the FPGA. The Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA family leverages Intel Embedded Multi-Chip Interconnect Bridging (EMIB) to provide high-speed communication between FPGA logic and DRAM. EMIB is used to integrate the HBM2 with a high-performance monolithic FPGA fabric to address memory bandwidth bottlenecks with excellent energy efficiency.

Intel is shipping several models of the Intel Stratix 10 FPGA family, including the Intel Stratix 10 GX FPGA with 28G Transceiver and the Intel Stratix 10 SX FPGA with an Embedded Quad Core ARM Processor. The Intel Stratix 10 FPGA family incorporates Intel’s 14-nanometer FinFET process and state-of-the-art packaging technology, including EMIB.