Chapter 2
Card Interfaces and Details
The Alveo
™
U50 accelerator card is available in a passive cooling conguraon and is designed
for installaon into a data center server where controlled air ow provides direct cooling to the
card. The card includes the following interfaces.
• A PCI Express
®
card connector
• One QSFP28 connector supporng 100 GbE, 40 GbE, or 4x10/25 GbE
• Maintenance Connector
Used to program the card in RTL ow through the programming cable. For more informaon
see the Alveo Programming Cable User Guide (UG1377).
Figure 1: Alveo U50 PQ Card with Half-Height Bracket
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