The NetFPGA PLUS is a code base built for the Xilinx Alveo Data Center Accelerator Card based upon Xilinx Virtex Ultrascale+ FPGAs. The code base currently operates on the U200, U250 and U280 as well as the discontinued VCU1525 Acceleration Development Kit.

A typical Alveo board is an FPGA-based PCI Express board with I/O capabilities for 10 and 100 Gbps operation, an x16 gen3 PCIe adapter card. It can be used as NIC, multiport switch, firewall, test/mesaurement environment, and more.

Full feature lists are available at the Xilinx Alveo website.

Example feaures (e.g., U250)

• Field Programmable Gate Array
• Xilinx Ultrascale+ VCU250
• 1,728K logic cells
• 57MB block RAM
• Fully programmable by the user
• 100-Gigabit Ethernet networking ports
• Connector bloack on left of PCB interfaces to 2 QSFP+ ports
• Directly connected to the FPGA.
• Wire-speed processing on all ports at all time using FPGA logic.
• Double-Data Rate Random Access Memory (DDR4 DRAM)
• 4x 16GB 72b DIMM DDR4
• 933MHz clock (2400MT/s)
• 77 GB/s peak memory throughput
• PCI Express Gen. 3
• Third generation PCI Express interface, 8Gbps/lane
• 16 lanes (x16)
• Hard IP
• Provides CPU access to memory-mapped registers and memory on the NetFPGA hardware
• Storage
• FLASH devices
• Standard PCIe Form Factor
• Standard PCIe card
• 3/4 or Full length, full height
• Flexible, Open-source code