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Feature Description
Up to 400 Gigabit
Ethernet
BlueField-3 DPU complies with the following IEEE 802.3 standards:
400GbE / 200GbE / 100GbE / 50GbE / 40GbE / 25GbE / 10GbE
Protocol MAC Rate
IEEE802.3ck 400/200/100 Gigabit Ethernet
(Include ETC enhancement)
IEEE802.3cd
IEEE802.3bs
IEEE802.3cm
IEEE802.3cn
IEEE802.3cu
400/200/100 Gigabit Ethernet
(Include ETC enhancement)
IEEE 802.3bj
IEEE 802.3bm
100 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3by
Ethernet Consortium25
50/25 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3cb 2.5/5 Gigabit Ethernet
(For 2.5: support only 2.5 x1000BASE-X)
IEEE 802.3ap Based on auto-negotiation and KR startup
IEEE 802.3ad
IEEE 802.1AX
Link Aggregation
IEEE 802.1Q
IEEE 802.1P VLAN tags and priority
IEEE 802.1Qau (QCN)
Congestion Notification
IEEE 802.1Qaz (ETS)
EEE 802.1Qbb (PFC)
IEEE 802.1Qbg
IEEE 1588v2
IEEE 802.1AE (MACSec)
Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)
On-board Memory Quad SPI NOR FLASH - includes 256Mbit for Firmware image.
UVPS EEPROM - includes 2Mbit.
FRU EEPROM - Stores the parameters and personality of the card. The EEPROM
capacity is 128Kbit. FRU I2C address is (0x50) and is accessible through the PCIe
SMBus.
DPU_BMC Flashes:
2x 64MByte for BMC Image
512MByte for Config Data
eMMC pSLC 40GB with 30K Write Cycles eMMC for SoC BIOS.
SSD (onboard BGA) 128GByte for user SoC OS, logs and application SW.
DDR5 SDRAM - 16GB/32GB @5600MT/s single/dual-channel DDR5 SDRAM memory.
Solder down on-board. 128bit + 16bit ECC
BlueField-3 IC The NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU integrates x8 / x16 Armv8.2+ A78 Hercules cores (64-bit) is
interconnected by a coherent mesh network, one DRAM controller, an RDMA intelligent
network adapter supporting up to 400Gb/s, an embedded PCIe switch with endpoint and
root complex functionality, and up to 32 lanes of PCIe Gen 5.0.