Chapter 2
Card Interfaces and Details
The Alveo
™
U50 accelerator card is available in a passive cooling configuration and is designed
for installation into a data center server where controlled air flow provides direct cooling to the
card. The card includes the following interfaces.
• A PCI Express
®
card connector
• One QSFP28 connector supporting 100 GbE, 40 GbE, or 4x10/25 GbE
• Maintenance Connector
Used to program the card in RTL flow through the programming cable. For more information
see the Alveo Programming Cable User Guide (
).
Figure 1: Alveo U50 PQ Card with Half-Height Bracket
Chapter 2: Card Interfaces and Details
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