Installing the Card

The following procedure is a guide for the Xilinx® Alveo™ U30 Data Center accelerator card installation. Consult your computer documentation for additional information.

If you encounter any issues during installation, see Troubleshooting.

1. Shut down the host computer and unplug the power cord.
2. Open your computer by removing the casing.
3. If necessary, remove the adjacent PCIe® slot cover corresponding to the PCIe slot in which you are installing the Alveo card.
4. Plug the Alveo card into the PCIe x8 or x16 slot on the motherboard.
5. Re-install the computer casing.
6. Connect the power cord and turn on the computer.
   Warning: Do not power-on a passively cooled card without adequate forced airflow across the card with proper air flow direction, otherwise the card can be damaged. This card can heat up after use in the server. Use caution when handling. For more information, see Alveo U30 Data Center Accelerator Cards Data Sheet (DS970).
7. After installing the Alveo card, enable x4x4 bifurcation. Consult your user manual for steps to enable bifurcation on your system.
8. Verify the device has been installed successfully by entering the following Linux command in the terminal:

   $ sudo lspci -vd 10ee:

   If the card is successfully installed and found by the operating system, the lspci command will report two addresses ending in *.00.0 as shown in the example below.

   Note: For each device flashed with a platform, lspci will also report an address ending in *.00.1.

   sudo lspci -vd 10ee:
   01:00.0 Processing accelerators: Xilinx Corporation Device d03c (rev 02)
           Subsystem: Xilinx Corporation Device 000e
           Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 211, NUMA node 0
           Memory at c6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
           Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
           Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
           Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
           Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
           Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
           Capabilities: [1c0] Secondary PCI Express
           Kernel driver in use: xclmgmt
           Kernel modules: xclmgmt
   
   02:00.0 Processing accelerators: Xilinx Corporation Device 513c
           Subsystem: Xilinx Corporation Device 000e
           Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 0
           Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
           Memory at c4040000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256K]
           Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
           Capabilities: [60] MSI-X: Enable- Count=32 Masked-
           Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
           Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
           Capabilities: [1c0] Secondary PCI Express
           Kernel driver in use: xclmgmt
           Kernel modules: xclmgmt    

   If you do not see a similar message, see Troubleshooting.