Hardware Overview

DOCA is the software framewor k for BlueField's main hardware entities:

• Arm cores – optimized for control-path applications, general-purpose applications and single-flow performance

  • 16 A78 Arm cores general-purpose processor

  • Coherent Mesh architecture

  • Last level cache (LLC)

  • DDR5 memory subsystem

  • Base OS and microservices

• Accelerated programmable pipeline – optimized for high-performance packet processing applications and advanced packet handling

  • Programmable 64-128 packet processor

  • Multi-staged, highly parallelized

  • Flow-based classification and action engine

  • RDMA, crypto, time-based scheduling

• Data-path accelerator – optimized for IO-intensive applications, high insertion rate, network flow processing, device emulation, and collective and DMA operations

  • 16 hyper-threaded cores I/O and packet processor

  • Real-time OS