Table of Contents
Revision History...............................................................................................................2
Chapter 1: Introduction.............................................................................................. 7
Card Features...............................................................................................................................8
Minimum System Requirements...............................................................................................8
Qualified Servers......................................................................................................................... 9
Chapter 2: Accelerator Card Overview............................................................. 10
Card Interfaces and Details......................................................................................................10
Passive and Active Cooling Cards............................................................................................11
Chapter 3: Card Installation Procedures......................................................... 13
Safety Instructions.................................................................................................................... 13
Before You Begin.......................................................................................................................15
Installing the Card.....................................................................................................................15
Chapter 4: Installing the Deployment Software......................................... 21
XRT and Deployment Platform Installation Procedures on RedHat and CentOS............. 21
XRT and Deployment Package Installation Procedures on Ubuntu................................... 25
Chapter 5: Card Bring-Up and Validation........................................................29
Running lspci............................................................................................................................. 29
Running xbmgmt flash --scan................................................................................................. 30
Running xbmgmt partition...................................................................................................... 31
xbutil validate............................................................................................................................ 33
Chapter 6: Next Steps.................................................................................................36
Chapter 7: Troubleshooting.................................................................................... 37
Known Issues.............................................................................................................................38
Appendix A: Changing XRT and Target Platform Versions....................40
RedHat and CentOS.................................................................................................................. 40
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