Xilinx Alveo U250 Getting Started

The deployment soware sources are now installed and deployed on the system. The
installaon of the drivers, runme soware, and ulies are in the /opt/xilinx/ directory
and contains the xrt and dsa sub-directories. Note that the dsa folder contains the
deployment plaorm installaon.
Aer installing the deployment plaorm you will see the following message:
DSA package installed successfully.
Please flash card manually by running below command:
sudo /opt/xilinx/xrt/bin/xbmgmt flash --update --shell <shell_name>
Note: When installing 2019.1 or earlier deployment plaorm packages, the displayed instrucons use
the xbutil rather than the xbmgmt command to ash. Flashing with xbutil is being deprecated and
will not be supported in future releases. It is recommended to use the xbmgmt command to ash the
Alveo card.
4. Flash the rmware to the Alveo card using the command displayed in the output of the
previous step. It has the following format:
sudo /opt/xilinx/xrt/bin/xbmgmt flash --update --shell <shell_name>
If you have mulple cards installed or need to regenerate the command, follow the steps
given in the related topic, Generang the xbmgmt ash --update Command.
5. You will be asked to conrm the update, as shown below. Type y and press the Enter key.
Status: shell needs updating
Current shell: <current_platform_name>
Shell to be flashed: <platform_to_be_flashed>
Are you sure you wish to proceed? [y/n]:
Flashing will take up to 10 minutes.
IMPORTANT! Do not enter Ctrl + c in the terminal while the rmware is ashing as this can cause the card to
become inoperable.
IMPORTANT! N'entrez pas Ctrl + c dans le terminal lorsque le micrologiciel clignote, car cela pourrait rendre la
carte inulisable.
WICHTIG! Geben Sie im Terminal nicht Strg + c ein, während die Firmware blinkt, da dies dazu führen kann,
dass die Karte nicht mehr funkoniert.
Successfully ashing a new card results in a message similar to the one shown below. If the
command returns Card Not Found, perform a cold reboot, and retry. Otherwise, see
Chapter 7: Troubleshoong.
Updating SC firmware on card[0000:65:00.0]
INFO: found 4 sections
.....................................
INFO: Loading new firmware on SC
Updating shell on card[0000:65:00.0]
INFO: ***Found 700 ELA Records
Idcode byte[0] ff
Idcode byte[1] 20
Idcode byte[2] bb
Chapter 4: Installing the Deployment Software
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Xilinx Alveo U250 Specifications

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Brand	Xilinx
Model	Alveo U250
Category	Computer Hardware
Language	English