LightBoat-2300 LightBoat series FPGA accelerator card

Product details

Product overview

The LightBoat-2300 series FPGA accelerator card is a high-performance hardware acceleration product independently developed by LUISUAN Technology and will be officially released in February 2025. This series adopts AMD UltraScale+™ architecture and is equipped with Virtex UltraScale+ XCVU23P high-performance FPGA chip. It is specially designed for scenarios such as intelligent networks, data center acceleration, AI inference, hardware security, and industrial edge computing. It can provide chip-level hardware acceleration capabilities for various computing and data applications.

Detailed explanation of application scenarios

1. IP Core development and verification platform

With its rich hardware resources and complete debugging interface, the LightBoat-2300 series has become an ideal platform for ASIC/IP Core prototype verification:

• Hardware prototype verification: Utilizing 2.252 million logic cells and 99Mb UltraRAM to support hardware simulation and verification of complex digital circuits
• Algorithm hardware verification: verify the functional correctness and performance indicators of the algorithm hardware implementation before tape-out
• Interface protocol verification: supports protocol consistency testing of high-speed interfaces such as PCIe Gen4 and 100G Ethernet
• Debugging and testing: Equipped with USB Type-C debugging interface (JTAG + UART×4) and status LED indicators to facilitate collaborative debugging of software and hardware
• Rapid iterative development: FPGA reprogrammable features support rapid design iteration and shorten the IP Core development cycle

2. Encrypted computing and hardware security

Based on the hardware-level parallel computing capabilities of FPGA, the LightBoat-2300 series has excellent performance in the field of cryptography acceleration:

• National secret algorithm hardware acceleration: integrated SM2/SM4 national secret algorithm hardware engine, performance improved several times compared with pure software solutions
• Symmetric/asymmetric encryption: supports hardware-level acceleration of mainstream cryptographic algorithms such as AES, DES, RSA, and ECC.
• Hash operation acceleration: supports high-speed calculation of hash algorithms such as SHA256 and SM3, suitable for blockchain and data integrity verification
• Homomorphic encryption acceleration: supports homomorphic encryption operations in privacy computing, which can increase efficiency by more than 50 times compared to CPU implementation
• SSL/TLS offload: As a 200G SmartNIC, it implements hardware encryption and decryption of network data packets, significantly reducing server CPU load.
• Quantum safe encryption: Supports anti-quantum algorithms such as Lattice-based Cryptography to meet future security needs

3. Password management and key security

The LightBoat-2300 series provides hardware-level key management capabilities to ensure the security of the entire life cycle of the cryptographic system:

• Hardware Security Module (HSM): Build a trusted execution environment based on FPGA to achieve secure generation, storage and use of keys
• Key life cycle management: supports full-process hardware-level protection of key generation, distribution, rotation, and destruction
• True random number generation: Use the physical characteristics of FPGA to generate high-quality random numbers to meet cryptographic security requirements
• Key isolation storage: ensure the separation of keys and business data through hardware isolation mechanism to prevent side channel attacks
• Access control: Hardware-based identity authentication and rights management to prevent unauthorized access
• Audit and Compliance: Record all cryptographic operation logs to meet compliance requirements such as GDPR, Class A Safeguard 2.0, and cryptography laws.

Other typical application scenarios

• data center network: 200G smart network card (SmartNIC), NVMe-oF acceleration - reduce CPU load by 85%+, and delay to less than 10μs
• AI Inference and LLM: KVCache extension, large model inference acceleration - solves the video memory bottleneck and supports the "unlimited video memory" solution
• NVMe RAID: 16-bay NVMe SSD hardware RAID - bandwidth increased by 34 times, supports RAID0/1/5/10
• Fintech: High-frequency trading, real-time risk control, option pricing - trading order generation time compressed to microseconds
• privacy computing: Multi-party secure computing - hardware-level privacy protection, data does not leave the domain
• industrial edge: Machine vision, PLC control, real-time quality inspection - millisecond response, sub-pixel detection accuracy

Product form and ecological support

• Physical form: Standard half-height, half-length (HHHL) PCIe accelerator card, no additional cables required, plug and play
• Software ecosystem: supports Vivado development environment, provides complete SDK and drivers, and is compatible with mainstream AI frameworks and cloud platforms
• Security certification: Supports the national security level two qualification requirements and meets the security standards of sensitive industries such as finance and government.
• Expansion capability: A single card supports up to 16 NVMe SSDs, which can be upgraded to 24/32

The LightBoat-2300 series is not only a high-performance computing accelerator card, but also a full-featured hardware security platform. Its IP Core development and verification capabilities facilitate rapid iteration of chip design, hardware-level encryption calculations ensure data processing security, and key management functions meet compliance requirements. With the powerful performance of XCVU23P and the in-depth optimization of LUISUAN Technology, this series has become the core infrastructure in fields such as intelligent computing centers, financial technology, and privacy computing.