Course Description 

Alveo™ accelerator cards can help you achieve the highest performance, accelerate any workload, and deploy solutions in the cloud or on premises for data center workloads.

The focus of this course is on:

  • Identifying the available Alveo accelerator cards and their advantages as well as the available software solutions stack
  • Learning how to run designs on Alveo Data Center accelerator cards using the Vitis™ unified software platform
  • Targeting Alveo cards using the Vivado™ Design Suite without the complexity and software requirements of Vitis acceleration
  • Reviewing the available partner solutions in the cloud and on premises
On-Demand Training
1 Alveo Data Center Accelerator Cards Overview
Describes the Alveo Data Center accelerator cards and lists the advantages of these cards and the available software solutions stack.
2 Getting Started with Alveo Data Center Accelerator Cards
Describes the hardware and software installation procedures for the Alveo Data Center accelerator cards.
3 Introduction to the Vitis Unified Software Platform
Explains how software/hardware engineers and application developers can benefit from the Vitis unified software environment and OpenCL framework.
4 Vitis Unified Software Platform Overview for Accelerator Development
Describes the elements of the development flow, such as software emulation, hardware emulation, and system run as well as debugging support for the host code and kernel code.
5 Implementing Vivado Designs on Alveo Cards
Illustrates how hardware developers can target Alveo boards using the Vivado Design Suite without the complexity and software requirements of Vitis acceleration. 
Perform the “Targeting Alveo Cards with the Vivado Tools” lab after completing this module.
The lab instructions and lab files are available for download here.
6 Alveo Accelerator Card Ecosystem Partner Solutions
Describes the partner solutions available in the cloud and on premises for Alveo Data Center accelerator cards.