Bittware PCIe 5.0 NIC Card with Agilex 7 and LMS ÜberNIC with CXL

The Bittware PCIe 5.0 NIC Card has an Intel Agilex® 7 FPGA and LMS ÜberNIC with CXL. This fully hardware-accelerated network stack finds first use in data centers for the financial services industry (FSI) and others. This is the first FPGA-powered CXL NIC.

PCIe 5.0 + CXL

BittWare partner Liquid-Markets-Solutions (LMS) have moved the full network stack into an FPGA, a unique achievement. The Intel Agilex I-Series FPGA has  PCIe 5.0 bandwidth and CXL low-latency.

Called ÜberNIC, this family of NIC cards is built on BittWare hardware for enterprise-class deployment in datacenters.

ÜberNIC for Low-Latency Trading

Fact: Today's NICs Don't Stack Up for Market Trading. Today’s market feeds regularly pass 850 Mb/s—the point at which even the best competitive NIC’s network stack begin to dramatically lose sufficient latency performance.

Enter ÜberNIC, the first commercially-available FPGA NIC with the entire network stack in accelerated hardware, allowing for consistent low latency. This is game-changing performance for Fintech.

Key Features at a Glance for Financial Services Industry (FSI)

Performance

• Raw performance improvement that’s consistent through the critical peak market feed moments when you need it most!

Utility

• More fiber pairs per card means getting more out of each server. Powerful enough for ancillary services like PCAP and timestamping on the same card

Future Compatible

• Support for latest PCIe 5.0, CXL, and link speeds up to 400G

Foundation

• 100% Offload: By moving the complete network stack into FPGA hardware, the ÜberNIC achieves unmatched performance
• RFC & IEEE Compliant
• Fiber Port Density Leader
• Single-slot card supports up to 16× 10/25G fiber pairs
• Multi-GB On-board Memory
• Single-Slot, Compact Form Factor
• 267% Higher Throughput Without Performance Loss
• Highly Consistent; 95th Percentile Latency StDev 2.19%
• Multi-GB DDR Buffer Ensures Lossless Reception
• Plug & Play x86 I/O (BSD/POSIX; Raw Frame; Custom API)

Tap into the Power of Agilex 7

Central to the performance gains of ÜberNIC over competitors is the Intel Agilex 7 FPGA. This chip brings the core features like PCIe 5.0 and CXL—plus I/O giving double (or more) the port density of even top competitors.

Performance & Usability - 61% Lower Latency, Full RTT <558ns

At its core, ÜberNIC is a low-latency focused NIC. With the combination of full hardware acceleration and low-latency PCIe transfers thanks to CXL, you get unmatched performance—even during peak market times.

Built on BittWare

BittWare brings enterprise-class products to market using the latest technology such as Agilex FPGAs. Today’s high-speed interfaces require significant care in the design and manufacturing process to make a reliable, high-quality product at scale.

Extensibility

• FPGA-Exclusive Functions
• Only FPGA-based solutions with bundled hardware network allows for all these extensible functions
• MAC-based Timestamping
• Market Data Handling & Line Arbitrage
• Data Preprocessing, Filtering, & Enhancement
• MAC-based PCAP & Port Spanning
• Simultaneous Network I/O Support for SW & HW EUC

Consistent Performance

Even up to 3,000 Mb/s ÜberNIC performs with low latency. The cards can run in a variety of servers supporting PCIe 3/4/5.