Intel® FPGA Acceleration Boards and Platforms
The portfolio of Intel® FPGA acceleration boards and platforms includes SmartNICs and Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs). Designed for use in telecommunications, cloud service provider, and other types of enterprise data center environments, these acceleration boards and platform designs are continuously being qualified and sold by leading original equipment manufacturer (OEM) server providers.
Intel® FPGA Acceleration Boards and Platforms
See why Microsoft chose Intel FPGAs to accelerate their next generation cloud infrastructure.
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Why Choose Intel® FPGAs for Acceleration?
Ease of Deployment
Find validated and qualified field-programmable gate array Acceleration Cards through several leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as wells as platform architectures.
Portability
Evolving acceleration needs require unique platform software solutions. Intel’s deep ecosystem works to make it easier for hardware and software designers to gain business value from FPGAs in the data center or cloud.
Standardization
Customize your own unique acceleration platform solutions using the new Intel® OFS. Delivered via git repositories, this scalable infrastructure can accelerate software and workload development for a wide range of projects.
Wide Range of Solutions
Discover what FPGAs can do for your business with the broad portfolio of acceleration solutions from technology experts with workloads for network infrastructure acceleration, network functions virtualization, and other types of application acceleration.
Intel® FPGA Acceleration Partners
Intel has engaged with leading providers of virtual appliances and accelerator functions best suited for FPGA acceleration. Our partners specialize in the workloads you care most about, such as 5G, network functions virtualization (NFV), and data analytics to provide you with complete solutions and design services to minimize your development investment and accelerate your time to market.
Customization
Create customer platform solutions using source-accessible Intel® OFS hardware and software code.
Experience faster time to deployment thanks to native support of Intel® OFS by leading open source software distribution vendors.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a SmartNIC?
A SmartNIC is a programmable network adapter card with programmable accelerators and Ethernet connectivity that can accelerate infrastructure applications running on the host.
What is an IPU?
An IPU is an advanced networking device with hardened accelerators and Ethernet connectivity that accelerates and manages infrastructure functions using tightly coupled, dedicated, programmable cores. An IPU offers full infrastructure offload and provides an extra layer of security by serving as a control point of the host for running infrastructure applications.
What is the difference between a SmartNIC and IPU?
An IPU is capable of offloading the entire infrastructure stack from the host and can control how the host attaches to this infrastructure. This gives the service provider an extra layer of security and control, enforced in hardware by the IPU. A SmartNIC has similar networking and offload capabilities as the IPU but remains under the control of the host as a peripheral.
How do IPUs from Intel work?
An IPU is capable of offloading the entire infrastructure stack from the host and can control how the host attaches to this infrastructure. This gives the service provider an extra layer of security and control, enforced in hardware by the IPU. A SmartNIC has similar networking and offload capabilities as the IPU but remains under the control of the host as a peripheral.
What is the Intel® FPGA IPU C5000X-PL platform architecture?
An Intel reference architecture that provides service providers and solution providers an efficient and cost-effective design to build production deployable IPU for the cloud data centers.
Partner Offerings
Discover Intel®-based partner offerings for FPGA Boards solutions in the Intel® Solutions Marketplace.