The AMD Alveo™ U50/U50LV data center accelerator card is PCIe® Gen3 x16 compliant and Gen4 x8 compatible featuring the AMD 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/U50LV accelerator card features are as follows.
| Card Component | Alveo U50/U50LV |
|---|---|
| FPGA | UltraScale+ XCU50 FPGA |
| HBM | 8 GB - two 4 gigabyte (GB) HBM memory stacks |
| Split into 32 256 MB channels | |
| Network Interface | 1x QSFP28 |
| Supporting 100 GbE, 40 GbE, or 4x10/25 GbE | |
| PCIe | 16-lane PCI Express |
| PCIe Integrated Endpoint block connectivity | |
| Gen1, 2, or 3 up to x16, Gen4 x8 | |
| Single or dual Gen4 x8 | |
| I2C Bus | ✓ |
| Status LEDs | ✓ |
| Power Management | Power management with system management bus (SMBus) voltage, current, and temperature monitoring |
| Electrical Design Power | 75W PCIe slot functional with PCIe slot power only |
| Configuration Options | 1 gigabit (Gb) Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) flash memory |
| UltraScale+ device configurable over USB/JTAG and Quad SPI configuration flash memory | |
| UART | UART access through the maintenance connector |
Note: The Alveo
U50/U50LV card has separate power rails for FPGA fabric
and HBM memory. Developers must ensure their
designs do not draw too much power for each rail. The HBM rail has a 10W supply rail budget, and may limit HBM performance (see AR75222). For details on how to monitor power and
temperature, see Monitor Card Power and Temperature.