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Guide to Recommended Alternatives for Discontinued AMD Alveo Cards

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Our Guide for Discontinued AMD Alveo Cards

BittWare has several long-term enterprise-class alternatives with similar specifications

The Alveo U25N, U200, U250, and U280 FPGA accelerator cards from AMD (formerly Xilinx) have reached or will reach end of life in 2024. These devices use Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs exclusive to these designs. However, BittWare has similar UltraScale+ FPGAs on cards that are currently in production.

We would recommend these BittWare cards as alternatives if you were using the listed Alveo FPGA boards for past programs or continue to need solutions with similar devices. Get in touch with us to discuss your specific needs.

AMD Alveo U200 and U250

Status: Last Time Buy September 5, 2024

These cards use FPGAs exclusive to the cards, two QSFP28 ports and 64GB DDR4 memory. Host I/O is provided by a PCIe Gen3 x16 interface.

BittWare recommends as equivalents the XUP-P3R or XUP-VV8. Both of these cards feature similar large AMD Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs, with the XUP-VV8 offering the larger VU13P in addition to VU9P. Prefer more than 64GB? We offer up to 128GB DDR4 or QDR-II+.

I/O options match the PCIe Gen3 x16 but you get additional interfaces: SEP connector on the XUP-P3R and two OCuLink on the XUP-VV8. You get 2x-4x more 100G network links as well.

These cards also feature timing headers, BittWare’s BMC, and the BittWorks Toolkit II. 

Check the product pages (XUP-P3R or XUP-VV8) for in-stock status or connect with us to get a quote!

CardFPGALUTsMemoryI/O
Alveo U200/U250XCU200 or XCU2501,182K/1,728K64GB DDR42x QSFP28,
PCIe Gen3 x16
BittWare XUP-P3RVU9P
Speed grade -2
1,182K4x DIMM sites,
up to 128GB DDR4 or QDR-II + options
4x QSFP28 (100G each), expansion port with 20x GTY transceivers, PCIe Gen3 x16
BittWare XUP-VV8VU9P or VU13P,
Speed grade -2 or -3
1,182K (VU9P)/1,728K (VU13P)4x DIMM sites,
up to 128GB DDR4 or QDR-II+ options
4x QSFP-DD (8x25G each), 2x OCuLink (4x 25G + GPIO each), PCIe Gen3 x16

AMD Alveo U280

Status: Last Time Buy December, 2023

These cards use FPGAs featuring 8GB of HBM2. Host I/O is provided by a PCIe Gen4 x8 interface.

BittWare recommends as equivalent the AV-860h. This card features 32GB HBM2e, high-speed I/O via ARC6-16 connectors, and PCIe Gen5 x8.

The AV-860h gives you more I/O, HBM2e, and PCIe Gen5 instead of Gen4.

Check the product page for in-stock status or connect with us to get a quote!

CardFPGALUTsMemoryI/O
Alveo U280UltraScale+ XCU2801,304K8GB HBM2
16 GB DDR4 RDIMMs
2x QSFP28
PCIe Gen3 x16 or Gen4 x8
BittWare
AV-860h
Versal XCVH15823,837K32GB HBM2e
up to 64GB LPDDR4
8x ARC6-16, PCIe 4.0 x16 or 2x PCIe 5.0 x8

AMD Alveo U25N

Status: Last Time Buy December, 2024

These cards use FPGAs exclusive to the cards, two SFP28 ports and 6GB DDR4 memory. Host I/O is provided by a dual PCIe Gen3 x8 interface.

BittWare recommends as equivalent the 250-SoC. This card features a similar large AMD Zynq UltraScale+ FPGAs, with 8GB DDR4. I/O options match the dual PCIe Gen3 x8 but you get QSFP28 ports instead of SFP28s.

These cards also feature BittWare’s built-in self test (BIST).

Check the product page for stock status or connect with us to get a quote!

CardFPGALUTsMemoryI/O
Alveo U25NZynq® UltraScale+™ XCU25 522k1x 2GB x 40 DDR4-2400
1x 4GB x 72 DDR4-2400
2x SFP28
2x PCIe Gen3 x8
BittWare 250-SoCZynq® UltraScale+™ ZU19EG1,143K2x 4GB x72 DDR42x QSFP28
PCIe Gen3 x16

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