Card Features

Features of the Alveo U45N data center accelerator cards are listed in the following table.

Table 1. Alveo U45N Accelerator Card Product Details
Specification	Alveo U45N Accelerator Card
Production product SKU	A-U45N-P08G-PQ-G (2x100G DC accelerator card)
Total electrical card load	75W (without PCIe AUX power) 150W (with PCIe AUX power)
Thermal design power (TDP)	70W (without PCIe AUX power) 115W (with PCIe AUX power)
Thermal cooling solution	Passive
Form factor	Full height, half length, single slot
Network interface	2 x QSFP28
PCIe interface	Gen 3 x16/Gen 4 x8 to host system and Gen 3 x8 to communications processor
Configuration	2 Gb OSPI flash memory Configurable over ADK2 configuration port
FPGA
FPGA DDR	Two 4 GB DDR4 component interface 72b with ECC operating at 2400 MT/s
LUTs/Registers/DSP slices	1030K/2059K/1320
Maximum distributed RAM/block Ram/UltraRAM	14.2 Mb/74.3 Mb/99 Mb
Communications Processor
Arm processor	NXP Layerscape LX2162A
Cores	16 Arm v8 Cortex-A72 CPU cores, running up to 2.0 GHz
Cache buffer	16 MB cache
Packet buffer	2 MB packet caching buffer
Connection to FPGA	PCIe Gen 3 x8
DDR	4 GB DDR4 component x72 up to 2400 MT/s
System storage	Flash: NAND 128 Gb (16G x 8) eMMC for root file system
System storage	Flash: NOR 512 Mb SERIAL MT35X OSPI for boot

For card specifications, see Alveo U45N Data Center Accelerator Cards Data Sheet (DS1014).