Sneak Peek: Spider and Viper Board Platforms
FPGAs like Intel's Stratix 10 and Xilinx' VU13P provide enormous logic resources for today's demanding applications. When designers target these large FPGAs, they are naturally creating large loads--and often deploying in high-density datacenters with existing servers.
This combination of large FPGA loads (generating lots of heat) and standard server airflow limitations means targeting a particular FPGA shouldn't be your only concern--you need to consider the board's overall thermal design and performance.
With this in mind, we are announcing two new "platforms" for our PCIe FPGA boards:
Spider for low-profile, single slot boards, and
Viper for full-size, double slot boards. Spider and Viper platform boards are designed using sophisticated flow simulation to drive the physical layout in a "thermals first" approach. Boards are built using custom heat sinks with the latest heat pipe technology for passive cooling in standard servers, or with optional active cooling.
S10VG4 - Intel Stratix 10 GX 3/4-Length PCIe Board on BittWare's Viper Platform
A10SA4 - Intel Arria 10 GX Low Profile PCIe Board on BittWare's Spider Platform
XUPVV4 - Xilinx UltraScale+ 3/4-Length PCIe Board on BittWare's Viper Platform