The FPGA is an emerging technology that can increase the performance of packet processing due to need of increased protocol complexity. There are many models of system where FPGA is suitable more or less depending on use-case.

The presentation will introduce the system models presenting how to use FPGA inside larger systems. The models include inline, lookaside and fast-path packet processing capabilities requiring different approaches from system level making accelerated system more usable and easier to integrate with existing components.

In this talk we cover the challenges related to integration of the FPGA system with SW components like DPDK/kernel drivers and orchestration. The examples of real FPGA deployments will be presented on base of Intel Programmable Acceleration Card family.