U25N

The Alveo™ U25N is a 2x10/25G SmartNIC. The half-height, half-length (HHHL) Alveo U25N SmartNIC is compliant with the PCI Express® Gen3 x8 (x16 connector). It features the Zynq® UltraScale+™ XCU25 MPSoC and XtremeScale X2 Ethernet controller. The Alveo U25N SmartNIC platform is based on a powerful FPGA, enabling hardware acceleration and offload to happen inline with maximum efficiency while avoiding unnecessary data movements and CPU processing. It is composed of multiple software modules that contain Ethernet drivers and control demons such as vswitchd and strongSwan.

This user guide describes installation, configuration, and operation of the Alveo U25N SmartNIC, as well as its features, performance, and diagnostic tools. For the U25N SmartNIC feature list, refer to the Alveo U25N page.

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Figure 1: Alveo U25N SmartNIC

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Figure 2: U25N Architecture