Bittware IA-860m

  • Card information:

    • Vendor: Bittware

    • Name: IA-860m

    • Ethernet ports: 3x QSFP-DD (Only 2x used in minimal design)

    • PCIe conectors: Edge connector

    • FPGA Card Website

  • FPGA specification:

    • FPGA part number: AGMF039R47A2E2VR0, AGMF039R47A1E2VC

    • Ethernet Hard IP: F-Tile (up to 400G Ethernet)

    • PCIe Hard IP: R-Tile (up to PCIe Gen5 x16)

NDK firmware support

  • Ethernet cores that are supported in the NDK firmware:
  • PCIe cores that are supported in the NDK firmware:

    • R-Tile in the PCIe Module

    • See the <NDK-FPGA_root_directory>/cards/bittware/ia-860m/config/card_conf.tcl file for supported PCIe configurations.

  • Makefile targets for building the NDK firmware (valid for NDK-APP-Minimal, may vary for other apps):

    • Use make 400g2 command for firmware with 2x400GE (default).

  • Support for booting the NDK firmware using the nfb-boot tool:

    • YES

Note

To build the NDK firmware for this card, you must have the Intel Quartus Prime Pro installed, including a valid license.

Detailed boot information can be found in the Common readme for BittWare cards with BMC 3.x

Board Variants

The NDK firmware supports different hardware revisions of the IA-860m card, distinguished by the BOARD_VARIANT parameter.

  • BOARD_VARIANT=4 - The board uses FPGA part number AGMF039R47A1E2VC. This variant uses a different pinout for BMC communication than variants 0, 1, and 2.

  • BOARD_VARIANT=3 - The board uses FPGA part number AGMF039R47A2E2VR0. This variant uses a different pinout for BMC communication than variants 0, 1, and 2.

  • BOARD_VARIANT=0, 1, 2 - The board uses FPGA part number AGMF039R47A2E2VR0.

    • These variants share the original pinout for BMC communication.

    • Variants 1 and 2 represent updated PCB revisions, but are functionally identical to Variant 0 from the NDK firmware perspective.