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Orca N1025

The Orca-N1025 is a dynamic, high-performance P4 DPU, ideal for OVS, RDMA acceleration, and storage, featuring a compact design with an Intel Ice Lake processor.

Overview

Orca N1025 is a P4 programmable cloud-native SmartNIC with independent intellectual property rights.
It supports server boot via cloud disk, and includes 2x 25G Ethernet ports, 1x 1000BASE-T GE management Ethernet port.
The P4 network acceleration engine is a VLIW ISA P4 processor designed for vSwitch acceleration, with specific P4 instructions to complete protocol parsing, packet encapsulation and decapsulation. And it supports tens of millions of flow tables, and achieves the wire speed packet forwarding meanwhile.

Target Application

Orca N1025 SmartNIC features high-performance, low-latency, high-flexibility and low-power dissipation.
The dynamic programmable P4 engine enables users to flexibly extend or customize new protocols with the P4 language, to update and upgrade P4 applications without interrupting business flow. Therefore, Orca N1025 should be different in application scenarios in different areas.
Orca N1025 is a competitive network application acceleration solution such as OVS, NFV, SDN vRouter, 5G
UPF, etc.

Hardware Specification

N1025 Hardware Specifications
Physical form Half Height, Half Length, Single Width PCIe Card
Computing Resource4x Cortex-A53 MPCore / CentOS 8.4 aarch64
DDR 8GB DDR4 SDRAM x 72 bits
Storage 32GB eMMC Flash for A 53 ARM OS
512Mb QSPI Flash f or A 53 ARM Bootloader
PCIe Interface PCIe Gen 3 x8
Networking Interface Table Data 2x SFP28 25G Ethernet Ports
Table Data 1x 1000BASE-T Management Ethernet Port
Debug Interface JTAG/UART/000BASET extended via USB Type-C with customized debug card
Operating Temperature 0-45℃
Power PCIe Goldfinger
Power Consumption Typical Power Consumption 25W

Functional Specifications

Serial numberProduct Code-PN
Typical Power Consumption 25W SR-IOV
virtio-net: 0.95/1.0/1.1
virtio-blk: 0.95/1.0/1.1
Networking
P4 Programmable Parser
P4 Programmable Deparser
TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload)
CSO (Checksum Offload)
RSS (Receive Side Scaling)
Port Bind / Port Mirror / Port Rate-limiting
QoS Queue Scheduling
Networking Flow Table Action:
Forward/Discard
NAT/NAPT
Packet Header Overwrite
Mirroring
Overlay-VxLAN, Geneve, NVGRE, MPLS packet header encapsulation and decapsulation (P4 Programmatically scalable)
Meter
Statistics
Live Migration Supported Device Types: virtio-net/virtio-blk/DPDK-vDPA Framework
Cloud Disk
Cloud Disk Boot (Bare-Metal Mode)
Capacity Expansion
QoS
Hot Plug
Supported Protocols: iSCSI, Ceph, etc.
SDK Specification
SDK DPDK RTE_Flow API
RDK (TARTH SDK)
P4 toolchain

Application Scenarios

Procurement Information

Orca N-1025 DPU

Serial numberProduct Code-PNIllustrate
1YSX-N2025-1023SFP28 25Gx2, Half Height, Half Length Card, 022: Version