UL3524 Design Support

Overview

This repository provides AMD Alveo UL3524 card support including Vivado based reference designs targeting features of the card.

Reference Designs

Available reference designs are summarized in the following table. Each reference design includes:

• High-level design overview including attributes, performance, limitations and usage

• Simulation waveform files with waveform descriptions to better understand the design

• Hardware design files along with ILA / VIO configuration files allowing greater control and visibility into the design

Each reference design is located in their respective sub-directory.

Available Reference Designs

Reference Design	Summary
GTF Latency Benchmark	Benchmark design used to measure and report GTF in MAC and RAW 10G latency.
GTF Recovery Clock	Demonstrates how to setup the QSFP-DD Renesas device and route the GTF recovered clock through Bank 65.
PCIE DDR	DDR I2C and MIG bring-up and validation through PCIe.
QDR MIG	Interface with the QDRII+ memory montroller through AXI.
QSFP I2C	Enable QSFP module power planes and side-band signals via I2C interface.
Renesas I2C Programming	Program the Renesas devices via I2C using a state machine. Includes script to convert Renesas programming script file to .coe BRAM file format.
FINN on UL3524	Example design which shows how to use a FINN-generated MLP IP block on the ULL

Reference Design Support

The following links provide support to use the reference designs.

• Loading a reference design

• Simulating a reference design

• Building a reference design

• Programming a reference design to the card

Supported Cards

The following card is supported by the reference designs in this repository:

• UL3524

Vivado Design Support

The reference designs require the following Vivado release:

• Vivado ©️ 2023.1 or greater

The following links provide support on the Vivado flow:

• Vivado Design Flow

• UL3524 XDC file

The UL3524 Master Answer Record provides support resources such as known issues and release notes. For additional assistance, post your question on the AMD Community Forums - Alveo Accelerator Card.

Hardware Requirements

To program the device from the Vivado HW Manager, you need either of the following:

• Micro-B USB cable

• Alveo Debug Kit (ADK). See Alveo Accessories to purchase.

Support

For additional documentation, please refer to the UL3524 product page and the UL3524 Lounge.

For support, contact your FAE or refer to support resources at support.xilinx.com.