IBM #EJ12 PCIe3 FPGA Accelerator Adapter (also #EJ13) for 8247, 8284, 8286

IBM feature #EJ12 is the PCIe3 FPGA Accelerator Adapter, CCIN 59AB, a short-form-factor, regular-height PCIe generation 3 x8 adapter. Feature #EJ13 is the same adapter in low-profile form, named PCIe3 LP FPGA Accelerator Adapter, and both use adapter FRU number 000NK006. #EJ12 is used in the 8247-42L, 8286-41A and 8286-42A, and #EJ13 in the 8247-21L, 8247-22L and 8284-22A. The field programmable gate array (FPGA) adapter acts as a co-processor for the POWER8 processor and handles specialized, repetitive applications or functions, and the function or application loaded onto the adapter can be changed.

The adapter provides two 10 Gb SFP+ copper Ethernet ports, each with a nominal data rate of 10 Gbps, and it uses SFP+ copper twinaxial cables up to 5 m (16.4 ft) long. It can be used as a PCIe accelerator and as a CAPI accelerator, and it carries two banks of 4 GB or 8 GB x72 DDR3 SDRAM memory modules. The adapter needs both 3.3 V and 12 V from the PCIe slot. One PCIe x16 slot is required (a low-profile x16 slot for #EJ13), and one adapter per processor is supported in the system.

The cables are active 10 Gbps SFP+ copper twinaxial cables compliant with SFF-8431 Rev 4.1 and SFF-8472 Rev 10.4: #EN01 (1 m, CCIN EF01, part 46K6182), #EN02 (3 m, CCIN EF02, part 46K6183) and #EN03 (5 m, CCIN EF03, part 46K6184). Supported operating systems are AIX 7.1 Technology Level 3 Service Pack 2 or later, AIX 6.1 Technology Level 9 or later, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or later and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 or later.