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Interface Description
7
USB 4-pin
vertical
connector
Used for OS image loading
8
1GbE OOB
Management
Interface
1GbE BASE-T OOB management interface
9
External PCIe
Power Supply
Connector
An external 12V power connection through a 6-pin ATX connector.
NOTE: This connector is present on FHHL P-Series DPUs only. It is
not present on FHHL E-Series DPUs.
10 RTC Battery Battery holder for RTC
11
eMMC
Interface
x8 NAND flash
12 BMC Embedded BMC on DPU
13
MMCX RA PPS
IN/OUT
Enables PPS IN/OUT
Interfaces Detailed Description
DPU IC
NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 DPU is a family of advanced DPU IC solutions that integrate a
coherent mesh of 64-bit Arm v8 A72 cores, an NVIDIA® ConnectX®-6 Dx network adapter
front-end, and a PCI Express switch into a single chip. The powerful DPU IC architecture
includes an Armv8 multicore processor array and enables customers to develop
sophisticated applications and highly differentiated feature sets. leverages the rich Arm
software ecosystem and introduces the ability to offload the x86 software stack.
At the heart BlueField-2, the ConnectX-6 Dx network offload controller with RDMA and
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology delivers cutting-edge performance for
networking and storage applications such as NVMe over Fabrics. Advanced features
include an embedded virtual switch with programmable access lists (ACLs), transport
offloads, and stateless encaps/decaps of NVGRE, VXLAN, and MPLS overlay protocols.