Ensemble® 6000 Series Openvpx™ Intel® Xeon® D-15Xx Processor
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Ensemble® 6000 Series OpenVPX™ Intel® Xeon® D-15xx Processor Family LDS6526 Low Density Server Blade with embedded I/O Xeon D processing performance, mezzanine sites, and built-in sensor I/O routed directly to the fabric via open architecture POET interface DATASHEET • 6U OpenVPX single server blade • Intel® Xeon® D (Broadwell microarchitecture) server-class processing • 40 Gigabit Ethernet high bandwidth SW defined fabrics • Four channels built-in sensor I/O • Dual XMC mezzanine sites • 16 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM • PCIe connectivity to OpenVPX expansion plane The Ensemble LDS6526 is a 6U, OpenVPX™ processing blade Broadwell DE-Based Xeon D Ecosystem that seamlessly integrates the latest Intel® Xeon® D server- The Ensemble LDS6526 features a 64-bit Xeon D family processor class, general purpose processing capability with configurable which is protected and cooled by Mercury’s fifth generation of high- data plane and built-in sensor I/O pipes to form an ultra-wide- performance packaging, which has previously been deployed in prior band, powerful ingestion processing engine. generations of 6U OpenVPX LDS and HDS processing modules. The The Ensemble LDS6526 is an innovative integration of the best Xeon D family of processors includes a System on Chip (SoC) approach, general processing capability, configurable mezzanine sites, built-in combining the processor and the Intel platform controller hub (PCH) and SW defined I/O and data plane interfaces which are efficiently function within a single device. As a solderable BGA, the Xeon D family managed by FPGA-based Processing Packet Offload Engine Technol- extends the capability of the LDS architecture. As an example, the ogy (POET™). POET enables these interfaces to be bonded directly D-1559 device delivers up to 576 GFLOPS of processing power, which to the Intel processor or to remote endpoints connected to the data is a significant performance boost for the LDS architecture. With two plane fabric. high-speed DDR4-2400 memory controllers, the Xeon D processor is able to support up to 16 GB of DRAM, with future capabilities of up to The Ensemble LDS6526 is part of Mercury’s Xeon server-class eco- 32 GB per module. Significant PCIe interface capabilities are built in to system of building blocks that includes Xeon D-based high density the chip, which enable data interfaces both on and off-board. servers (HDS), high-speed switch modules, and FPGA- or GPU-based pre-processing modules. The inclusion of Xeon D based low-density The on-device PCH functionality enables the Ensemble LDS6526 to servers (LDS) brings additional processing resources to bear, access additional I/O, including USB and SATA on the backplane. The enabling processing and I/O on the module to remain balanced, Xeon D family of processors have dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, avoiding data starvation or processor overload. enabling backplane access for sensor data or additional inter-processor communication and support for the AVX 2.0 instruction set that boosts www.mrcy.com floating-point algorithm performance and is portable to future Intel architectures. Mercury Systems is a leading commercial provider of secure processing subsystems designed and made in the USA. Optimized for customer and 100101010 100101010 100101010 100101010 100101010 001101011 001101011 001101011 001101011 001101011 mission success, Mercury’s solutions power a wide variety of critical 110101100 110101100 110101100 110101100 110101100 defense and intelligence programs. ACQUIRE ACQUIREDIGITIZE ACQUIREPROCESDIGITIZES ACQUIRESTORAGEPROCESDIGITIZES ACQUIRESTORAGEPROCESDIGITIZEEXPLOITS DISSEMINAACQUIRESTORAGEPROCESDIGITIZEEXPLOITSTE WARNING: “600 Series” and/or National Security Controls - These commodities, technology, or software are controlled for export from the United States in accor- dance with the Export Administration Act of 1979 as amended (Title 50 U.S.C.; App. 2401, et seq.), through the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Transfers to foreign persons requires prior approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security. Integrated FPGA Resources High Speed Fabric Interfaces The Ensemble LDS6526 integrates an Altera Arria 10 FPGA device with The Ensemble LDS6526 continues the Mercury tradition of combining the Intel Xeon D processor to provide Mercury’s POET integrated data the processing power of Intel processors with high speed switched plane functionality and sensor I/O capabilities. The FPGA resources fabric interfaces. By scaling the data plane bandwidth to match the support the full OpenVPX data plane for flexible 40 Gigabit Ether- increase in processing performance, the Ensemble LDS6526 architec- net configurations, with the ability to support additional protocols, ture ensures that the processor is never starved for data. integrated switching, and high-speed DMA engines in a single device. By utilizing the Altera Arria 10 FPGA and innovative OpenVPX in- In addition to the data plane, the Ethernet control plane is integrated terconnect technology; the Ensemble LDS6526 is a model for open with the Altera device to allow for additional flexibility in configuration architecture high performance computing throughout the embedded and capability. By offloading traditional ASIC-based functionality in a industry. Mercury OpenVPX subsystems feature robust signal rates that FPGA, the Ensemble LDS6526 blade reduces DMS/EOL concerns for comfortably exceed the margin of the channel to surpass the rate of long-term support of program requirements. modern fabrics, delivering the fastest compute solution in the industry In addition to the data plane interfaces, the Ensemble LDS6526 deliv- with future proof performance headroom. ers four channels of protocol-configurable sensor I/O to the P6 user I/O PCIe Architecture connector. These high-speed sensor interfaces are interfaced with the The Ensemble LDS6526 provides on-board Gen3 PCIe switches for both POET FPGA-based switch and DMA functionality such that incoming on-board switching and off-board expansion. This switch complex pro- sensor data can be routed to the local Intel processor, or to remotely vides an x8 PCIe interface to each of the two XMC sites, as well as an connected fabric endpoints over the OpenVPX data plane. This elimi- x4 connection to a PCIe to PCI-X® bridge for the single PMC site. This nates the need for XMC-based sensor data feeds for many applica- allows mezzanines to operate at full bandwidth, optimizing the flow of tions, providing a significant cost advantage over similar OpenVPX I/O into the processing subsystem. Externally, the Ensemble LDS6526 products. PMC2/XMC2 IPMB-A / IPMB-B 5 5 5 P25 P2 P21 P23 Thermal, Optional – air-cooled only Voltage, P64s/X38s to Mezz. System Signals (P0/P1) PMC/XMC Current IPMC I/O on P3 P0 P22 P24 P26 Sensors REF_CLK Accessory AUX_CLK X12d+X8d to Mezz. PCIe to PCIx I/O on P4 Bridge x8 PCIe3 MUX x8 PCIe3 4x - SerDes P D XMC1 PCIe Switch 4x - SerDes P1 DDP D P15 Arria 10 x8 PCIe3 Gen3 4x - SerDes p x8 PCIe3 Ap POET FPGA XMC TA 4x - SerDes AT X38s to Mezz. SA eS e I/O on P5 P16 X12d+X8d to Mezz. F I/O on P6 R 16 SERDES to P6 O N T P2 x8 PCIe3 x8 PCIe3 P DDR4DDR4 8GB+E DDR4DDR4 8GB+E x16 PCIe3 A SSDRAMDRAM SSDRAMDRAM 10GBASE-KR from Xeon D CC CC 10GBASE-KR from Xeon D N DDP USB2.0 E SATA P3 DDR4 DDR 2600 RS-232/422/485 2600 L 4 P64S/X38s to Mezz X12d + X8d to Mezz 9 9 - RS-232 1000BASE-BX – CP2 DB uDB- u SATA x16 PCIe3 NAND Flash Intel Xeon D-15xx 1000BASE-BX – CP1 Ethernet interfaces to P4 PCH processor B USB (8-16 Cores) 1000BASE-T-Enet2 US MUX LPC TPM 1000BASE-T-Enet1 www.mrcy.com USB 2. USB 2. USB 3. x4 PCIe SA SA TA TA 0 0 0 USB 3.0 P5 USB 2.0 SATA Subsystem RTO SATA RJ-45RJ-45 16 SERDES to POET FPGA Air-cooledAir-cooled P6 only LDS6526 Figure 1 - LDS6525 functional block diagram WARNING: “600 Series” and/or National Security Controls - These commodities, technology, or software are controlled for export from the United States in accor- dance with the Export Administration Act of 1979 as amended (Title 50 U.S.C.; App. 2401, et seq.), through the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Transfers to foreign persons requires prior approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security. implements a full Gen3 x16 PCIe connection to the OpenVPX expan- Additional Features sion plane on the P2 VPX connector. This expansion plane interface The Ensemble LDS6526 module provides all the features typically enables the Ensemble LDS6526’s compatibility with Mercury’s GPU or found on an avionics-class single-board computer. In addition to the FPGA based co-processing modules. These configuration options let sophisticated management subsystem and fabric interconnect, the En- the module effectively act as an upstream/downstream PCIe switch to semble LDS6526 module provides users with a toolkit enabling many allow the “chaining” of PCIe devices. different application features including: System Management • Thermal and voltage sensors integrated on-board The Ensemble LDS6526 module implements the advanced system man- • Real-time clock with accuracy better than 10ppm<1second per agement functionality inherent to the VITA 46.11 standard to enable day remote monitoring, alarm management, hardware revision and health • General purpose timers status. Using the standard IPMI-A and IPMI-B bus, intelligent platform management controller (IPMC), and IPMI protocol, the on-board system • Global clock synchronization capabilities via utility plane clock signals management block implementation is designed to comply with the VITA 46.11 standard. This allows the Ensemble LDS6526 module to: • Watchdog timer to support interrupt or reset • Read sensor values • Multiple boot paths, include netboot, USB boot, boot from SATA, • Read and write sensor thresholds, allowing an application to or from the on-board SATA flash device react to thermal, voltage, or current variations that exceed those thresholds Open Software Environment • Reset the entire module Mercury leverages over 30 years of multi-computing software exper- tise, including multicore processor expertise, across its many plat- • Power up/down the entire module forms.