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AMD Kintex™ UltraScale™ FPGA KCU1500 Acceleration Development Kit

The AMD Kintex™ UltraScale™ FPGA Acceleration Development Kit is an excellent starting point for hyperscale application developers. This kit is based on a production-ready PCI card accessible in the cloud with the frameworks, libraries, drivers and development tools to support easy application programming with OpenCL, C, C++ through SDAccel. Get started in the cloud, with this physical kit or both to move through development with AMD and go to production with one of AMD ecosystem partners.

Part Number:
- DK-U1-KCU1500-A-G
Lead Time: Discontinued
Device Support: Kintex UltraScale

Discontinued: This development kit has been discontinued and is no longer offered for sale. The solutions targeted for this product will not be updated moving forward with limited support available from AMD.

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What's Inside

Key Features & Benefits

Specialized reprogrammable hardware for computationally intensive applications, specifically targeting the fast-growing markets for live video transcoding, data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications using machine learning
Single slot PCIe® half-length full height form-factor compliant: Actual dimensions are 6.600 in x 4.199 in
Delivers 10-30x performance acceleration over traditional CPUs with a card designed to support 75W
Supported with SDAccel™ Development Environment for OpenCL, C, C++
Open Sources examples
SDAccel Platform Reference Design for custom board support

Featured AMD Devices

Featuring the XCKU115-2FLVB2104E

System Logic Cells (K)	1,451
DSP Slices	5,520
Block RAM (Mb)	75.9
16.3Gb/s Transceivers	64
I/0 Pins	832

Board Features

Featuring the KCU1500 Board

Communication & Networking

Two QSFP cages
PCIe Gen3 : Two x8 interfaces bifurcated to x16 edge connector

Configuration

JTAG PC4 Header and USB-JTAG Header
Dual Quad-SPI flash memory

Power & Thermal

Chassis powered supporting 75W maximum operation
Fan or passive heat sink
On-board power telemetry via PMBus

Memory

16 GB DDR 4 memory
3x DDR4 4GB, 2400Mbps, 64-bit w/ ECC
1x DDR4 4GB, 2400Mbps, 64-bit w/ no ECC
1Gb Dual Quad SPI Flash

What's Inside

AMD Kintex UltraScale FPGA KCU1500 Acceleration Development Kit

KCU1500 board featuring the XCKU115-2FLVB2104E

Voucher providing access to underlying programming tools

Vivado and SDAccel

USB Cable

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Resources

KCU1500 Documentation

Design Tools

Name	Description	License Type
Vivado Design Suite Design Edition	The AMD Vivado™ Design Suite is a revolutionary IP and System Centric design environment built from the ground up to accelerate the design for FPGAs and SoCs.	Node locked and device-locked to the KCU1500 FPGA, with one year of updates. Supports Dynamic Function eXchange
SDAccel Development Environment	SDAccel is a development environment for OpenCL applications targeting PCIe®-based AMD FPGA accelerator cards. This environment enables concurrent programming of the system processor and the FPGA logic without the need for RTL design experience.	Node locked and device-locked to the KCU1500 FPGA, with one year of updates.
Dynamic Function eXchange	Dynamic Function eXchange is the ability to dynamically modify blocks of logic by downloading partial bit files while the remaining logic continues to operate without interruption. AMD Dynamic Function eXchange technology allows designers to change functionality of the accelerator board on the fly, eliminating the need to fully reconfigure and re-establish PCIe links while reloading.	Node locked and device-locked to the KCU1500 FPGA, with one year of updates.

Intellectual Property

Name	Description	License Type
DDR4 SDRAM Controller	DDR4 SDRAM controller is a free IP core in the Vivado IP Catalog.	No-Charge IP
DMA for PCI Express (PCIe) Subsystem	The AMD LogiCORE™ DMA for PCI Express (PCIe) implements a high performance, configurable Scatter Gather DMA for use with the PCI Express 3.x integrated block. The IP provides an optional AXI4 or AXI4-Stream user interface.	No-charge IP
AMD SmartConnect Technology	The AMD SmartConnect Technology enables unprecedented levels of performance for the UltraScale+™ device portfolio, by solving the system interconnect bottlenecks on high density, multi-million system logic cell designs.	No-charge IP
SDAccel Platform Reference Design for Custom Board Support	SDAccel projects are compiled against a target platform. The SDAccel Platform Reference Design is the combination of board and hardware/software infrastructure components on which the kernels of an OpenCL application are executed. This reference design is intended to be used as a starting point to help platform developers add SDAccel support for their custom PCIe boards.	No-charge IP

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AMD Kintex™ UltraScale™ FPGA KCU1500 Acceleration Development Kit

Product Information

Key Features & Benefits

Featured AMD Devices

Communication & Networking

Configuration

Power & Thermal

Memory

KCU1500 board featuring the XCKU115-2FLVB2104E

Voucher providing access to underlying programming tools

USB Cable

Resources

Documentation

Tools and IP

Design Tools

Intellectual Property

Training and Support

Training

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