Chapter 1: Introduction; Card Features - Xilinx Alveo U200 Getting Started

Introduction
This document provides hardware and software installation procedures for the U200, U250, and
U280 Alveo™ Data Center accelerator cards and applies to Vitis™ release 2019.2 and later. If you
are using an earlier SDAccel™ release, follow the instructions in v1.3 of Getting Started with Alveo
Data Center Accelerator Cards (UG1301).
The Xilinx ® Alveo™ U200/U250/U280 Data Center accelerator cards are peripheral component
interconnect express (PCIe
technology. These cards accelerate compute-intensive applications such as machine learning,
data analytics, video processing, and more. The Alveo U200/U250/U280 Data Center
accelerator cards are available in passive and active cooling configurations.
Different system configurations are available for running, developing, and debugging applications
on your Alveo accelerator cards:
• Running Applications: To run accelerated applications, install an Alveo card into a system as
described in Chapter 3: Card Installation Procedures
software to support running applications as described in
Software.
• Developing Applications: To develop FPGA accelerated applications, it is necessary to install
both the deployment software and the development software. Development software
installation, described in
and the Vitis environment. This configuration does not have an Alveo card installed and is
used for development along with debugging in emulation modes.
• Running, Developing, and Debugging Applications: By installing the Alveo card along with
both the deployment and development software on a single machine, you can configure a
system for developing and running accelerated applications. With the card installed,
developers can debug applications in both emulation modes and on the hardware.

Card Features

Features of the Alveo U200/U250/U280 data center accelerator cards are listed in the following
table.
UG1301 (v1.5) June 3, 2020
Getting Started with Alveo Accelerator Cards
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) Gen3 x16 compliant cards featuring the Xilinx Virtex
Chapter 6: Next Steps, installs both a development target platform

Chapter 1: Introduction

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along with the required deployment
Chapter 4: Installing the Deployment
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