The AMD Alveo™ U50 data center accelerator card, shown in the following figure, is a single slot, low profile form factor passively-cooled card operating up to a 75W maximum power limit. It supports PCI Express® ( PCIe® ) Gen3 x16 or dual Gen4 x8, is equipped with 8 GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM2), and Ethernet networking capability. The Alveo U50 is designed to accelerate memory-bound, compute-intensive applications in financial computing, computational storage, data search and analytics. The Alveo U50 LV is recommended for accelerating machine learning inference workloads. The Alveo U50 and U50 LV cards are identical with the exception of the core operating voltage. The U50 operates with the core voltage set to VNOM and the U50 LV has the core voltage set to VLOW.
The U50 and U50 LV cards, qualified for deployment, have a single QSFP28 connector capable of 4x25G.
The card can be used with the AMD Vitis™ unified software platform and target platform that simplifies the design process and allows for high-level languages such as C, C++ and OpenCL™ to be used. A platform enables the card to be configured from onboard flash memory and upgraded through PCI Express. For experienced programmable logic developers, the card can be used with the AMD Vivado™ Design Suite where the full resources of the programmable logic device are made available for development.