Chapter 1
Introduction
This document provides hardware installation procedures for the Alveo™ U30 Data Center
accelerator card.
The Xilinx
®
Alveo U30 data center accelerator card, shown in the following figure, is a single slot,
half-height, half-length, low profile form factor passively-cooled card operating up to a 25W total
dissipated power (TDP). It has a bifurcated Gen3 x8 to form two independent Gen3 x4
PCI Express
®
(PCIe) compliant interfaces. It features two Zynq
®
Ult™ MPSoCs to
accelerate HD video transcoding and analytics. It targets high density video transcoding
application, capable of decoding, scaling, and encoding up to eight 1080p60 streams. The U30
card provides superb power and cost performance for such video applications.
Figure 1: Alveo U30 Card with Full-Height Bracket
Chapter 1: Introduction
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