Alveo U30 Platform setup

This section covers the steps to prepare setup for Alveo U30 card based platform for PCIe based solutions like Data Center usecases. This setup consists of one or more Alveo U30 cards installed in the PCIe slots of a server.

Hardware Requirements

Software Requirements

  • Host system with Ubuntu 20.04 kernel 5.10

Note

This platform has been tested on UBuntu 20.04, kernel 5.10 only.

Release Package

Complete VVAS DC/PCIe based Transcoding solution for Alveo U30 card has been provided as a release package and can be downloaded from Coming Soon.

Note

Pre-built binaries for this example designs will be available soon. For more information, you may contact vvas_discuss@amd.com

Installation Steps

Before starting software installation, make sure U30 cards are installed and detected. Execute the command mentioned below:

lspci | grep Xilinx

If the messages as a result of above command on console shows “Processing accelerators: Xilinx Corporation” then devices are detected and you may continue with the installation following the steps mentioned below.

  1. On the host server, navigate to the folder where release package (vvas-2.0_dc.zip) has been downloaded.

  2. Install the release packages

unzip vvas-2.0_dc.zip
cd vvas-2.0_dc
sudo ./install

  1. After all packages are installed successfully (as seen from the last few messages of install step - “++++ ++++ Post Install Verification Successful ++++ ++++”), login as root and setup environment to flash the U30

sudo su
source /opt/xilinx/xrt/setup.sh

  1. Flash the card from the installed folder. Please note this step takes longer depending on the number of U30 cards setup in the host server.

./u30flashall.sh

  1. Below is a sample message displayed on the console which shows successful flashing of one U30 card ( note : one U30 card has 2 Zynq MPSoC devices)

./u30flashall.sh
=====================================================
[1]: Updating flash image(s) for device: 0000:d9:00.0
=====================================================
xbmgmt program -d 0000:d9:00.0 -b shell --image /opt/xilinx/firmware/u30/gen3x4/base/partition.xsabin
[PASSED] : Flash erased < 1m 48s >
[PASSED] : Flash programmed < 1m 10s >
[PASSED] : Flash verified < 29s >
INFO     : Base flash image has been programmed successfully.
****************************************************
Cold reboot machine to load the new image on device.
****************************************************

=====================================================
[2]: Updating flash image(s) for device: 0000:d8:00.0
=====================================================
xbmgmt program -d 0000:d8:00.0 -b shell --image /opt/xilinx/firmware/u30/gen3x4/base/partition.xsabin
[PASSED] : Flash erased < 1m 45s >
[PASSED] : Flash programmed < 1m 7s >
[PASSED] : Flash verified < 34s >
INFO     : Base flash image has been programmed successfully.
****************************************************
Cold reboot machine to load the new image on device.
****************************************************

After successful flashing, reboot the host server. Once rebooted, setup is ready to run the use-cases.

For details about how to execute the test cases, refer to below mentioned Tutorials: