Xilinx Alveo U250 Getting Started

Chapter 1
Introduction
This document provides hardware and soware installaon procedures for the U200, U250, and
U280 Alveo™ Data Center accelerator cards and applies to Vis™ release 2019.2 and later. If you
are using an earlier SDAccel™ release, follow the instrucons in v1.3 of Geng Started with Alveo
Data Center Accelerator Cards (UG1301).
The Xilinx
®
Alveo™ U200/U250/U280 Data Center accelerator cards are peripheral component
interconnect express (PCIe
®
) Gen3 x16 compliant cards 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 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, installs 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.
Card Features
Features of the Alveo U200/U250/U280 data center accelerator cards are listed in the following
table.
Chapter 1: Introduction
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Xilinx Alveo U250 Specifications

General

Brand	Xilinx
Model	Alveo U250
Category	Computer Hardware
Language	English