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Chapter 1
Introduction
This is the Installation Guide for all Xilinx
®
Alveo™ X3522 card variants, including the following:
• X3522 low latency network adapter.
• X3522PV adaptable accelerator card.
It gives detailed procedures for engineers to setup the X3522, and to provide an environment for
testing it.
Product Website
The most up-to-date information related to Alveo™ X3522 card variants, downloads and
documentation are available on the following website:
https://www.xilinx.com/x3
Intended Audience
The intended audience for this Installation Guide are software installation, configuration and test
engineers responsible for testing and evaluating the X3522.
Features
The Xilinx ® Alveo™ X3522 is a single slot, half length, half height form factor passively cooled
card that brings low latency networking and compute acceleration to a single platform.
It uses an XCUX35 FPGA (XCUX35-3VSVA1365E). It has two DSFP28 network connections and
a PCI Express
®
Gen4 ×8 / Gen3 ×8 interface connected to the XCUX35. Each DSFP28 cage
supports two ports via a shared PF, currently at 10 GbE, with 25 GbE support to follow. See
Figure 1: X3522 Block Diagram .
The shell provides the user with the PCIe link and management functions necessary to operate
and program the card.
Chapter 1: Introduction
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