The AMD Alveo™ U55C data center accelerator card is PCI Express® Gen3 x16 compliant featuring the 16 nm UltraScale+™ technology. It has two QSFP28 interfaces and 16 GB of HBM to provide high-performance, adaptable acceleration for memory-bound, compute-intensive applications targeting high performance compute (HPC) and database applications.
The Alveo U55C data center accelerator card features are listed in the following table.
| Card Component | Alveo U55C |
|---|---|
| FPGA | UltraScale+ XCU55C FPGA |
| HBM | 16 GB- two 8 gigabyte (GB) HBM memory stacks |
| Split into 32 512 MB channels | |
| Network Interface | 2x QSFP28 |
| Supporting 100 GbE, 40 GbE, or 4x10/25 GbE | |
| Status LEDs | |
| PCIe | 16-lane PCI Express |
| PCIe Integrated Endpoint block connectivity | |
| Gen1, 2, or 3 up to x16, Gen4 x8 | |
| Dual Gen4 x8 | |
| I2C Bus | ✓ |
| Status LEDs | ✓ |
| Power Management | Power management with system management bus (SMBus) voltage, current, and temperature monitoring |
| Electrical Design Power | 150W with PCIe auxiliary power connector. |
| 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 micro USB connector |