Smart Network Interface Cards (SmartNICs) are increasingly being deployed in large datacenters to off-load networking services from the Server CPUs. This enables better scalability and security for organizations running large datacenters. In contrast to traditional NICs, SmartNICs offer programmable packet processing, storage, and networking functionality. Furthermore, SmartNICs are designed to monitor key network performance parameters like latency, speed, throughput, and packet loss. SmartNIC interface speeds are typically 100Gbps and above. 

A Chinese high-tech startup focused on cloud datacenter ASIC product development is developing network interconnect ASICs for SmartNICs used in large scale datacenters and cloud computing. The company uses Teledyne LeCroy Xena’s E100q Chimera network emulator to verify the performance of their new ASIC.