Chapter 2: Accelerator Card Overview; Card Features - Xilinx Alveo U50 Installation Manual

Accelerator Card Overview

Card Features

The Alveo U50 data center accelerator card is PCIe
compatible featuring the Xilinx 16 nm UltraScale+™ technology. It features 8 GB HBM to provide
high-performance, adaptable acceleration for memory-bound, compute-intensive applications
including database, analytics, and machine learning inference.
The Alveo U50 accelerator card features are as follows.
Table 1: Alveo U50 Features
Card Component
FPGA
HBM
Network Interface
PCIe
I2C Bus
Status LEDs
Power Management
Electrical Design Power
Configuration Options
UART
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Alveo U50 Data Center Accelerator Card Installation Guide

Chapter 2: Accelerator Card Overview

® Gen3 x16 compliant and Gen4 x8
Alveo U50
UltraScale+™ XCU50 FPGA
8 GB - two 4 gigabyte (GB) HBM memory stacks
Split into 32 256 MB channels
1x QSFP28
Supporting 100 GbE, 40 GbE, or 4x10/25 GbE
16-lane PCI Express
PCIe Integrated Endpoint block connectivity
Gen1, 2, or 3 up to x16, Gen4 x8
Single or dual Gen4 x8
✓
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Power management with system management bus (SMBus)
voltage, current, and temperature monitoring
75W PCIe slot functional with PCIe slot power only
1 gigabit (Gb) Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) flash
memory
UltraScale+ device configurable over USB/JTAG and Quad
SPI configuration flash memory
UART access through the maintenance connector
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