Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N5010 4x 100Gb with HBM Onboard

[Patrick Kennedy]

The Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N5010 uses a Stratix 10 DX FPGA with HBM and PCIe Gen4 to power up to 4x 100GbE ports on a PCIe card

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[Preston L. Bannister]

How "soft" are these "smart" NICs? Can I turn the 100Gb slots into 4x 10Gb Aurora? Guessing some of the cards are fixed in the protocols supported to the datacenter use-cases, and some are not. Which I cannot tell at present.

Likely not yet asking the right questions. :/

 

[i386]

How "soft" are these "smart" NICs? Can I turn the 100Gb slots into 4x 10Gb Aurora?

From Silicom Ltd. – Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N5010 Series
Under technical specifications two Intel E810-CAM1 are listed as the network controller:

According to the ark page the controller supports 1x 100GBE, 2x 50GBE, 4x 25GBE and 4x 10GBE per port:

Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-CAM1 Product Specifications

Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-CAM1 quick reference guide including specifications, features, pricing, compatibility, design documentation, ordering codes, spec codes and more.

ark.intel.com