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Semiconductor IP

Intellectual Highway

100Gbps fully hard-wired networking and security IP

TCP/IP
TLS/SSL
RDMA
100Gbps
FPGA
SoC

Intellectual Highway is an FPGA/ASIC IP and design-services firm focused on hardware-accelerated network processing, targeting ultra-low-latency use cases such as fintech alongside data-center and embedded applications, and partners with AMD, Intel/Altera and Efinix. Its core product PTU is a fully hard-wired TCP/IP protocol stack supporting 100Gbps and 10,000+ sessions; paired with a hardware TLS/SSL accelerator and RDMA, it removes CPU load at both endpoints.

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Products & capabilities

Intellectual Highway portfolio

Network stack

PTU (Protocol Termination Unit)

A fully hard-wired TCP/UDP offload engine for FPGA and SoC, reaching 100Gbps per session at 250MHz with under 1 microsecond of latency. A benchmark on an AMD ZCU102 SoC showed throughput rising from 2.1/1.5 Gbps to 9.0/8.2 Gbps with offload enabled.

100Gbps performance with 10,000+ concurrent sessions (TCP configurable up to 16,000)
Direct FPGA stream, shared-memory and descriptor-based PCIe interface modes, with TCP/IP entirely in hardware

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Security acceleration

TLS/SSL Accelerator

Throughput of 50–100Gbps depending on session count, supporting TLS 1.3, AES-128/192/256 (GCM) and SHA2 authentication. Combines PTU's TCP offload with an integrated crypto processor for hardware record-layer processing, with direct OpenSSL integration.

AES-GCM at 100Gbps

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Data movement

RDMA

Supports RoCEv2 over UDP/Ethernet across Reliable Connection, Unreliable Connection and Unreliable Datagram transport types, at 100/200/400Gbps Ethernet line rates — measured at 98Gbps on 100G Ethernet with PMTU=4096.

Operates without external DRAM, with direct-stream and descriptor-based PCIe/DMA interface modes

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