Xilinx Alveo U200 User Manual

Chapter 1
Introduction
This document provides hardware and soware installaon procedures for the U250 and the
following two-stage Dynamic Funcon eXchange (DFX-2RP) Xilinx
®
Alveo™ data center
accelerator card plaorm, inially supported by 2020.2 XRT. For more informaon, see Dynamic
Funcon Exchange for more informaon on DFX plaorms.
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Installaon procedures for the U200 and U280, as well as all other plaorms on the U250 Alveo
data center accelerator cards, must follow the instrucons in v1.5 of Geng Started with Alveo
Data Center Accelerator Cards (UG1301).
The Alveo U200/U250/U280 data center accelerator cards are PCIe
®
Gen3 x16 compliant
featuring the Xilinx Virtex
®
UltraScale+™ technology. These cards accelerate compute-intensive
applicaons such as machine learning, data analycs, video processing, and more. The Alveo
U200/U250/U280 data center accelerator cards are available in passive and acve cooling
conguraons.
Dierent system conguraons are available for running, developing, and debugging applicaons
on your Alveo accelerator cards:
• Running Applicaons: To congure a system to run accelerated applicaons, install an Alveo
card into a system as described in Chapter 3: Card Installaon Procedures along with the
required deployment soware to support running applicaons as described in Chapter 4:
Installing the Deployment Soware.
• Developing Applicaons: To develop FPGA accelerated applicaons, it is necessary to install
both the deployment soware and the development soware. Development soware
installaon, described in Chapter 6: Next Steps, consists of installing both a development
target plaorm and the Vis™ environment. This conguraon does not have an Alveo card
installed and is used for development along with debugging in emulaon modes.
• Running, Developing, and Debugging Applicaons: By installing the Alveo card along with
both the deployment and development soware on a single machine, you can congure a
system for developing and running accelerated applicaons. With the card installed,
developers can debug applicaons in both emulaon modes and on the hardware.
Chapter 1: Introduction
UG1301 (v1.8) February 5, 2021 www.xilinx.com
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Xilinx Alveo U200 Specifications

General

Brand	Xilinx
Model	Alveo U200
Category	Computer Hardware
Language	English