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VMPL
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], October 7: Logic Fruit Technologies, a deep-tech semiconductor product company headquartered in India, today announced L-Nex, a new family of FPGA-based Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) products for next-generation AI, cloud, datacenter and sovereign computing infrastructure. Every server contains a BMC a small, independent computer that powers the system on and off, monitors temperature, fans and power, updates firmware and provides remote access, even when the main operating system is down. L-Nex brings this critical control function onto a reconfigurable FPGA SoC, designed around the Open Compute Project (OCP) DC-SCM 2.x standard and running open-source OpenBMC. The core idea: move server management from a largely fixed-function silicon model to a configurable platform. Customers can shape selected capabilities during system design, and evolve them after deployment through authenticated software and FPGA bitstream updates as security standards, protocols and infrastructure needs change. Built for a rapidly changing AI infrastructure market - AI and GPU servers are raising demands on telemetry, power and thermal control, security and lifecycle management. - Servers remain deployed for many years, while cryptographic and management standards keep evolving. - Conventional BMCs fix key hardware functions at silicon manufacture; changing them requires a new chip. - L-Nex implements selected management, interface and security functions in programmable hardware instead. - Qualified customers gain a controlled path to platform-specific capabilities without developing a new BMC ASIC. One management architecture Configure, Deploy, Evolve, Extend - Configure during design: OEMs, ODMs and infrastructure customers work with Logic Fruit on platform-specific interfaces, telemetry and security functions. - Deploy on an open, standard platform: OCP DC-SCM/DC-SCI architecture, upstream OpenBMC and standard DMTF interfaces. - Evolve throughout the lifecycle: reconfigurable fabric lets selected functions be updated rather than waiting for a new silicon generation. - Extend for qualified customers: controlled customer extensions, software source access and, under licence, Logic Fruit FPGA fabric IP and reserved fabric capacity. Key capabilities - Open software: upstream OpenBMC on Yocto and Linux LTS; Redfish, IPMI 2.0, PLDM/MCTP and SPDM; source-delivered BSP and drivers. - Hardware-rooted security: secure boot, firmware authentication and rollback protection, attestation, NIST SP 800-193 firmware resiliency. - Cryptographic agility: a path toward post-quantum algorithms without replacing the management architecture. - Host-independent telemetry: on-module thermal-anomaly detection, fan-failure prediction and power-trend analysis, planned for early access. - Rich host interfaces: eSPI, PECI, PCIe with MCTP, I2C/I3C, NC-SI, LTPI and remote KVM implemented as Logic Fruit FPGA IP. - Multi-silicon architecture: common software and platform across FPGA SoC families, reducing dependence on a single BMC silicon source. AI and datacenter infrastructure is evolving at extraordinary speed, but many of the critical control functions inside a server are still defined by fixed-function silicon. With L-Nex, we want to change that model building a reconfigurable management platform that customers can help shape for their next-generation systems, and that continues evolving after deployment. Together with L-QNTX, L-Nex reflects our strategy of building core semiconductor, security and infrastructure technologies in India for global markets, said Sunil Kar, President and CEO, Logic Fruit Technologies. India-engineered deep technology for global infrastructure - Module architecture, board design, FPGA fabric RTL, firmware, OpenBMC integration and a substantial share of validation are led by Logic Fruits India-based engineering team. - Designed from inception for international datacenter standards and global customers. - Offers in-country engineering, support and customization for Indias growing datacenter, cloud and sovereign AI-compute build-out. - Gives Indian government, defence and critical-infrastructure programs greater visibility and control over a security-critical server component. - Marks Logic Fruits expansion from engineering services into proprietary products, software and licensable IP. Complementary to L-QNTX L-Nex complements Logic Fruits recently announced L-QNTX crypto-agile security platform: L-QNTX addresses cryptographic IP, root of trust and HSMs, while L-Nex addresses the management and control layer of server infrastructure. The two are complementary product platforms; any shared technology will follow their respective development and validation roadmaps. Early evaluation and design-partner program - L-Nex is an early product family currently under development. - Production readiness is targeted for Q3 2027. - Planned family: L-Nex BMC727, BMC628 and BMC928 hardware platforms and the L-Nex BMC SW27 software platform. - Logic Fruit is engaging OEMs, ODMs, hyperscalers, infrastructure operators, silicon partners and technology companies now while their next-generation platforms are still being architected. For architecture briefings, evaluation planning or design-partner discussions, contact info@logic-fruit.com or visit www.logic-fruit.com/. About Logic Fruit Technologies Logic Fruit Technologies is a deep-tech semiconductor product company headquartered in India and serving customers worldwide. The companys engineering capabilities span FPGA and ASIC design, AI/ML hardware and software systems, high-speed interface IP, mission-critical defence systems and FPGA-based hardware platforms. Logic Fruit serves customers across AI and datacenter infrastructure, aerospace and defence, communications, industrial systems and robotics. With L-Nex, the company is extending these capabilities into reconfigurable server management, security and datacenter infrastructure. (ADVERTORIAL DISCLAIMER: The above press release has been provided by VMPL. ANI will not be responsible in any way for the content of the same)
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