SDAccel Hardware Requirements

The SDAccel™ environment requires the following hardware:

• Acceleration Card. Use one of the following:
  • Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGA KCU1500 Reconfigurable Acceleration card based on XCKU115-FLVB2104-2-E FPGA.
  • Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA VCU1525 Reconfigurable Acceleration card based on XCVU9P-L2FSGD2104E FPGA.
• Host computer: Desktop computer for hosting the acceleration card. The host computer must provide the following.
  • Motherboard with a PCIe Gen3 X8 slot
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 100GB free disk space
• Programming computer: Laptop or desktop computer running the supplied Vivado Design Suite 2017.4 for programming the FPGA.
• Xilinx® Platform Cable USB 2, part number HW-USB-II-G for connecting the programming computer to the acceleration card. See the Platform Cable USB II Data Sheet, (DS593).
• Additional platforms are available from partners. For more information, visit the SDAccel Developer Zone: https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/software-zone/sdaccel.html.