This category covers compact, SOSA™-aligned 3U OpenVPX switch cards powered by the Altera Agilex™ 5 E-Series SoC FPGA. These modules are typically mapped to VITA 65 switch profiles such as SLT3-SWH-4F1U7U1J-14.8.7-1 or SLT3-SWH-4F1U7U1J-14.8.7-0.
While Agilex 7 Switch Modules handle ultra-dense 100G switching, the Agilex 5 Switch Module is built for low-power, highly responsive, edge-level switching engines (SWaP-C optimized). It provides centralized backplane routing, multi-channel 10G/40G Ethernet switching, and PCIe communication while using the Agilex 5 fabric’s Tensor engines for real-time traffic analysis.
Key Highlights
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Silicon Architecture (Agilex 5 E-Series):
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FPGA Fabric: Up to 656K Logic Elements with AI Tensor blocks to support inline packet inspection, threat detection, and dynamic protocol handling.
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Heterogeneous Processing System (HPS): Asymmetric cluster featuring a Dual-core Arm® Cortex®-A76 (up to 1.8 GHz) + Dual-core Arm® Cortex®-A55 (up to 1.5 GHz) to run embedded Linux network routing stacks .
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Switching & Backplane I/O:
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Data & Control Planes: Supports multiple backplane Ethernet configurations including 10GBASE-KR, 40GBASE-KR4, and 1000BASE-K X.
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Optical & Coaxial Interconnects: Equipped with a VITA 66.5 / 67.3 MT Ferrule aperture (12-fiber) for high-speed, EMI-immune optical data switching across the backplane or between chass is.
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System Memory & Storage:
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2GB LPDDR4 with ECC for the HPS clus ter.
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Dual independent 2GB LPDDR4 banks (4GB total) dedicated to the FPGA soft-switch fa bric.
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32GB onboard eMMC + QSPI Flash.
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Chassis Management: Tier-3 VITA 46.11 IPMC controller (Arm Cortex-M0+ based) for voltage, thermal, and reset monitoring across the VPX chassis.
Please find the detailed product information here:
Agilex™ 5 SOSA-aligned 3U VPX Plug-in Module(Switch Profile)