Nvidia BlueField-3 User Manual

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11.3 Cabline CA-II Plus Harness Pinouts
11.3.1 Cabline CA-II Plus Harness - Component Side
Pin# Signal Name Wire Type Detailed
Description
AWG# Pin# on the
other end
1 GND GND BAR 1
2 PCIE_REFCLK1_P Micro coax Primary PCIe clock
from the
motherboard to the
BlueField DPU Main
card, to be used for
the x16 Cabline
harness PCIe
interface. This clock
must meet all the
PCIe SIG spec
requirements. It
should be driven
from the
motherboard side.
38 2
3 PCIE_REFCLK1_N Micro coax Primary PCIe clock
from the
motherboard to the
BlueField DPU Main
card, to be used for
the x16 Cabline
harness PCIe
interface. This clock
must meet all the
PCIe SIG spec
requirements. It
should be driven
from the
motherboard side.
38 3
4 GND GND BAR 4
5 PCIE_CPU_CX_15N Micro coax Connect from the
Black Cabline CA-II
Plus cable through
220nF capacitors to
the x16 PCIe Tx
lanes of the CPU/
GPU/End-Point
38 5
6 PCIE_CPU_CX_15P Micro coax Connect from the
Black Cabline CA-II
Plus cable through
220nF capacitors to
the x16 PCIe Tx
lanes of the CPU/
GPU/End-Point
38 6
7 GND GND BAR 7

Nvidia BlueField-3 Specifications

General

Product Type	DPU (Data Processing Unit)
Power Consumption	Up to 75W
Manufacturing Process	7nm
Operating Temperature	0°C to 70°C
Virtualization	SR-IOV, Virtio
Target Applications	Cloud, Networking, Storage
Memory	Up to 16 GB DDR4
Memory Bandwidth	Up to 200 GB/s
Networking	Up to 400 GbE
PCIe	PCIe Gen4 x16
Storage Acceleration	NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)
Security	Hardware root of trust, Secure boot
Form Factor	PCIe Card
Acceleration Engines	Networking, Storage, Security
Software Support	NVIDIA DOCA
Cache	L1, L2, L3 caches