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Orca N2025

The Orca-N2025 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-N2025 is a P4 programmable DPU with independent intellectual property rights, which supports two 25G data networks ports and two 1000BASE-T GE management network ports. The P4 network acceleration engine is a VLIW ISA P4 processor designed for vSwitch acceleration, which uses specific P4 instructions to complete protocol parsing and packet encapsulation and decapsulation, which can support tens of millions of flow tables while ensuring packet line-speed forwarding.

Features

The Orca-N2025 DPU has the characteristics of high performance, low latency, and high flexibility. The dynamically programmable P4 engine enables users to flexibly extend or customize new protocols in the P4 language according to specific application requirements, and at the same time, the service flow is not interrupted when updating and upgrading services in P4 applications. As a result, Orca-N2025 can be used in different application scenarios in different fields, and is the best choice for applications such as OVS, RDMA acceleration, bare metal, and storage acceleration.

Hardware Specification

N2025 Hardware Specifications
Physical formFull-height, double-wide, three-quarter-length PCIe card
Dimensions (including shell and baffle): height 111.15mm × width 38.75mm × length 201mm
Computing ResourcesIntel Ice Lake D-1726 6C 2.9GHz
MemoryFPGA Logic Memory: 8GB DDR4 SDRAM x 72 bits
SoC Logical memory:16GB DDR4 SDRAM x 72 bits
PCIe InterfaceSupports FPGA to SoC PCIe Gen 4 x16
FPGA to Host PCIe Gen 4 x16, is supported Multi Host
Network Interfaces2x SFP28 25G Ethernet interface
2x 1000BASE-T management network ports
Storage Interfaces2Gb FPGA QSPI Flash
64MB SoC BIOS Flash
Debug InterfacesUSB Type-C port is connector to the customized debugging board to expand the JTAG/UART/1000BASE-T debugging network port
Operating Temperature0-45℃
Power SupplyP12V power supply interface, using using auxiliary power supply connector and gold finger pin
Power ConsumptionTypical power consumption is 180W

Functional Specifications

Serial numberProduct Code-PN
IO virtualizationSR-IOV:32 PF,2K VF
virtio-net/virtio-blk:1.0/1.1
VirtIO Queue,2K RX,2K TX Queue
NetworkingP4 Parser is programmable
P4 Deparser is programmable
Hardware flow table offloading/aging
TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload)/GRO (Generic Receive Offload)
CSO (Checksum Offload)
RSS (Receive Side Scaling)
LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)
NAT (Network Address Translation)
Port binding(LACP supported), port mirroring, and port rate limiting
Connection Tracking uninstalls
TC-Flow offload/RTE-flow offload
CT table specification ≥100W,and the rate of creating a session ≥20K/s
vSwitch Flow ≥ 500W,Flow Table offloading performance ≥10K/s
Internet Flow Table ActionForward/Discard
NAT/NAPT
Baotou rewritten
mirror image
Overlay-VxLAN, Geneve, MPLS header encapsulation and decapsulation (P4 programming extensible)
Meter
Statistics
Hot migrationSupported device types:virtio-net vDPA/virtio-blk vDPA
StorageDisk Booting (Bare Metal Mode
iSCSI Client Offload
Ceph Client Offload
iSER Client Offload
NVMe-oF/TCP
RDMA Specifications
RDMAQueue Pair:256
Transmission mode:RC
Flow Control:PFC/ECN/DCQCN is supported
SDK Specification
SDK DPDK RTE_Flow API,TC-Flow API
RDK (Orca SDK)
P4 toolchain

Application Scenarios

  • Unified management of VMs, containers, and bare metal servers in cloud data centers
  • Unified management of VMs, containers, and bare metal servers in cloud data centers

Procurement Information

Orca N-1025 DPU

Serial numberProduct Code-PNIllustrate
1YSX-N2025-1023SFP28 25Gx2, full height, double width, three-quarter length, 023: version number