ConnectX-5 Firmware tooling and initial analysis
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06 Feb 2025 by Jonas Rudloff
NVIDIA/Mellanox has made a series of smart network interface cards(SmartNICs/NICs) called ConnectX primarily for server and datacenter uses. In this series of articles we will take a look at its firmware, and try to reverse engineer the instruction set for the iRISC processor.
The ConnectX family of devices also seem to form a basis for the BlueField family of NICs which is basically a ConnectX with a user controllable embedded ...
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