Alveo Card Out-of-Band Management Specification for Server BMC

This document describes out-of-band (OoB) support available for the U200, U250, U280, U50x, U30, U55x, VCK5000, V70, Avalon UL3524 and MA35D Alveo™ Data Center Cards. Out-of-band support is implemented in the Satellite Controller (SC) firmware, which supports communication with the server Board Management Controller (BMC) over the SMBus/I2C interface on the PCIe® edge connector. The underlying protocols supported are Alveo I2C and PLDM Over MCTP Over SMBus.

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Introduction

• Introduction

Alveo IPMI FRU

• Alveo™ FRU Support

PMCI support

• PMCI Support

PLDM telemetry

• PLDM Telemetry

MA35D IFWI update

• PLDM IFWI Update

SPDM attestation

• SPDM Attestation

Alveo I2C Telemetry

• Alveo I2C Telemetry

SC FW update

• SC Firmware Update

U30 FPGA FW update

• U30 FPGA FW update

PCIe and thermal info

• Appendix A

References

• Additional Resources

AMD Support

For support resources such as answers, documentation, downloads, and forums, see the Alveo Accelerator Cards AMD/Xilinx Community Forum.