SDAccel Hardware Requirements

The SDAccel™ environment requires the following hardware:

• Acceleration Card. Use one of the following:
  • Alpha Data ADM-PCIE-KU3 card. The card is based on the Kintex® UltraScale™ XCKU060T-2FFVA1156E FPGA.
  • Alpha Data ADM-PCIE-7V3 card. The card is based on the Virtex®-7 XC7VX690T-2FFG1157C FPGA.
  • Xilinx Xil-ACCEL-RD-KU115 card. The card is based on the Kintex UltraScale XCKU115-FLVB2104-2-E FPGA.
  • Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGA KCU1500 Reconfigurable Acceleration card based on XCKU115-FLVB2104-2-E FPGA.
• Host computer: Desktop computer for hosting the acceleration card. The host computer must provide the following.
  • Motherboard with a PCIe Gen3 X8 slot
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 100GB free disk space
  • DVD drive
• Programming computer: Laptop or desktop computer running the supplied Vivado Design Suite 2016.4 for programming the FPGA.
• Xilinx® Platform Cable USB 2, part number HW-USB-II-G for connecting the programming computer to the acceleration card. See thePlatform Cable USB II Data Sheet, (DS593).
• Additional platforms are available from partners. For more information, visit the SDAccel Developer Zone:http://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/software-zone/sdaccel.html.

Known Issues

Xilinx performs substantial testing across of a number of different systems. The following are issues that we have identified on some common systems.