Chapter 1
Introduction
The Xilinx
®
Alveo™ U50 Data Center accelerator cards are peripheral component interconnect
express (PCIe
®
) Gen3 x16 compliant and Gen4 x8 compable cards featuring the Xilinx 16 nm
UltraScale+™ technology. The Alveo U50 card oers 8 GB of HBM2 to provide high-
performance, adaptable acceleraon for memory-bound, compute-intensive applicaons
including database, analycs, and machine learning inference.
The following table lists the specicaons for the engineering sample (ES3) and producon (PQ)
versions of the Alveo U50 accelerator cards.
Table 1: Alveo Card Specifications
Specification ES3 Version PQ Version
Product SKU A-U50DD-P00G-ES3-G A-U50-P00G-PQ-G
Network interface 2xSFP-DD 1XQSFP
Qualified for deployment No Yes
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