Xilinx Alveo U50 Installation Guide

Chapter 1
Introduction
This document provides hardware and soware installaon procedures for the half-height, half-
length Xilinx
®
Alveo
™
U50 data center accelerator card and applies to 2020.1.1 tools versions
and later. For installaon procedures using earlier tool versions, see v1.6 of Alveo U50 Data
Center Accelerator Card Installaon Guide (UG1370).
The Alveo U50 data center accelerator cards are PCIe
®
Gen3 x16 compliant and Gen4 x8
compable cards featuring the Xilinx 16 nm UltraScale+
™
technology. The Alveo U50 card
recommends 8 GB HBM to provide high-performance, adaptable acceleraon for memory-
bound, compute-intensive applicaons including database, analycs, and machine learning
inference.
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.
Card Features
The Alveo U50 accelerator card features are as follows.
• UltraScale+
™
XCU50 FPGA
Chapter 1: Introduction
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Xilinx Alveo U50 Specifications

General

Brand	Xilinx
Model	Alveo U50
Category	Computer Hardware
Language	English