The AMD Alveo™ U55C data center accelerator card, shown in the following figure, is a single slot, full height, half length form factor passively-cooled card. It supports PCI Express® ( PCIe® ) Gen3 x16 or dual Gen4 x8, and is equipped with 16 GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM2) and dual QSFP28 Ethernet ports capable of 100 Gb/s each. The Alveo U55C is designed to accelerate memory-bound, compute intensive applications in high-performance computing, AI inference, and database and data analytics.
Card applications can be created using the AMD Vitis™ unified software platform which uses high-level languages such as C, C++, and OpenCL™ . For experienced programmable logic developers, the card can be developed with the AMD Vivado™ Design Suite where the full resources of the programmable logic device are made available for development.