Accelerator card with SoC enables challenging compute and networking applications

Mouser Electronics, Inc. now offers the AV-870p Versal accelerator card from BittWare, a Molex company. The new PCIe Gen5 accelerator card is the result of a collaboration between BittWare and LDA Technologies. The accelerator card supports blockchain, fintech, genomic sequencing, generative AI, packet processing, storage services and other demanding applications. It is designed to deliver extreme performance for data centre and edge computing workloads.

"We value the easy ordering process that Mouser enables for our accelerator card portfolio," said Craig Petrie, VP of BittWare. "Our relationship with LDA allowed us to bring the AV-870p to market, and now we are pleased to see Mouser stock this card for easy online ordering."

Maria Sukiasyan, COO of LDA Technologies, said: "The collaboration between BittWare and LDA is a perfect example of a successful project. The AV-870p card brings significant increases in speed and capacity to the FPGA sector. I'm confident clients will quickly recognise the multitude of benefits delivered by the advancements the card brings to this growing market. It's great to be working with Mouser, the go-to place for people in high-tech, including us at LDA."

The BittWare AV-870p accelerator, with the AMD Versal Premium adaptive SoC, combines power-optimised, network-ready cores on an adaptable platform for challenging compute and networking applications. The PCIe Gen5 accelerator card features AMD's Versal Premium adaptive SoC, along with QSFP-DDs that support up to 400G high-speed connections and two 8GB LPDDR4 memory chips (for a total of 16GB). The board also supports a board management controller (BMC) with onboard CLI and APIs in Python and C++ for advanced system monitoring and control.

The AV-870p accelerator card is deployment-ready with a standard height, three-quarter length, and dual-width PCIe form factor. The board features USB access to BMC, USB-JTAG, and USB-UART interfaces, dual-width passive heatsink cooling, and onboard flash memory for FPGA booting. PCle Gen5 delivers twice the data transfer speed of PCIe Gen4 and a high-speed interface between CPUs and workload accelerators.