1Plenary_State of SmartNICs Today-Achronixr.PDF

1、State of SmartNICs TodayScott SchweitzerSr.Product ManagerAchronix SemiconductorSan Jose,CA April 26-28,2022Agenda News Architectures Products Future Architectural Directions2San Jose,CA April 26-28,2022News$1.9 Billion for Pensando!31.Clearly not revenue play,otherwise 40X multiplier?2.Genius move

2、by AMD,for many reasons:a.Took Pensando off the boardb.Blocks Cisco from proven mass market SmartNICc.Clearly a move to dominate the data centerd.An AMAZING chiplet story?Combine Xilinx FPGA,x86 cores and Pensando I/O San Jose,CA April 26-28,2022New PerspectiveThe Data Center is the New Computer4Sma

3、rtNICs will be the Execution Platformfor the Data Center OSSan Jose,CA April 26-28,2022Architectures&Products Architectures Control vs.Data Plane Classic(Arms with IP&NoC)FPGA Hybrid(ASIC NIC/Arm/IP/x86)Products Intel,Marvell,Napatech,NVIDIA,Pensando,Xilinx5San Jose,CA April 26-28,2022Control vs.Dat

4、a Plane Control Plane is the Coaching staff Define&draw the plays Select&deploy players Orchestrate plays from the sidelines 1/10GbE+Arm Complex Data Plane the Court,Players the Packet Engines Move the ball Execute the play Listen to coaching staff ASIC,Arm Complex and FPGA6San Jose,CA April 26-28,2

5、022Architecture:Classic(Arms,IP&NoC)Pensando Oversimplified Capri7San Jose,CA April 26-28,2022Products:Classic Intel:Mt.Evans-16x Arm Neoverse N1 Fungible:MIPS cores,unique design,UDP acceleration NVIDIA:BlueField 2-8xA72 Arm Cores$1,500 BlueField 3-16xA78 Arm Cores,Fall 2022 Pensando:DSC25 P4 Engin

6、es&4xA72$1,300 DSC100(200)$4,7008San Jose,CA April 26-28,2022Products:Classic,MarvellFour ASIC Family8-36xNeoverse N225-60WChips Samples 6/219San Jose,CA April 26-28,2022Architecture:FPGAHigh Tech Lego Style IP blocks ASIC Logic PerimeterNetwork on Chip(NoC)10San Jose,CA April 26-28,2022Products:FPG

7、A Napatech NT200A02,2x100GbE,UltraScale+VU5P NT100A01,4x25GbE,UltraScale+VU5P NT50B01,2x25GbE,UltraScale+VU5P11San Jose,CA April 26-28,2022Architecture:HybridHigh Latency3-Chip,expensive BoMFPGA as Bump-in-wireProgrammable to a point12Intel N5010San Jose,CA April 26-28,2022Products:Hybrid AMD(Xilinx

8、)SN1022(2x100G):Virtex,NXP 8xArm A72$2,400 U25(2x25G):Zynq+X2$2,500 Intel:C5010X-FPGA/Xeon N5010-FPGA/2xE81013San Jose,CA April 26-28,2022Future Architectural Directions Control plane:More powerful Arm/x86 Complex Security concerns for physical separation,real out of band management Growth of contro

9、l plane OSes CXL expanded to enable greater SmartNIC control over host14 Data plane:Explosion of Hard-IP Chiplets will dominate in 2024 and beyond Huge extensible FPGA fabrics supporting containerized bitstreams More P4 Engines for increased traffic More powerful ARM cores for complex packet transforms AI/ML within FPGA fabric and chiplets may prove invaluable