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

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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.


Introduction

Alveo IPMI FRU

PMCI support

PLDM telemetry

MA35D IFWI update

SPDM attestation

Alveo I2C Telemetry

SC FW update

U30 FPGA FW update

PCIe and thermal info

AMD Support

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

License

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