Chapter 1: Introduction - Xilinx Alveo U200 Getting Started Manual

Introduction
This document provides hardware and software installation procedures for the Alveo™ Data
Center accelerator cards.
Alveo cards are PCI Express
Architecture. You can use these cards to accelerate compute-intensive applications such as
database acceleration, machine learning, data analytics, and video processing.
There are two software installation flows, one for deployment and one for development. The
deployment software allows you to deploy pre-compiled applications on your machine, and it
consists of the Xilinx runtime (XRT) and a deployment shell. The development software allows
you to compile and debug acceleration applications, and it consists of the development shell and
the SDAccel™ development environment.
While the development software is critical for application developers who wish to build
applications, it is not necessary to install in your deployment environment where the Alveo
accelerator cards reside
Through varying combinations of hardware and software installations, there are three different
system configurations available for running, developing, and debugging applications on your
Alveo accelerator cards:
• Running Applications: To run accelerated applications, you can install an Alveo card into a
system as described in
deployment software to support running applications as described in
Deployment Software.
• Developing Applications: You can configure a system for developing FPGA accelerated
applications by installing the deployment software and the development software as
described in Chapter 6: Installing the Development
shell and the SDAccel development environment. This configuration does not have an Alveo
card installed and is used for development purposes.
• 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.
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Getting Started with Alveo Accelerator Cards
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(PCIe) Gen3 x16 compliant cards featuring the Xilinx
Chapter 3: Card Installation Procedures, and then install the required
Chapter 4: Installing the
Software. This installs both a development
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