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Using FPGAs to Accelerate Data Centers (WP005)

With the technology industry at a crossroads — the effective repeal of Moore's Law  — data centers have become the sweet spot of the technology sector, showing healthy revenue growth and attracting new system solutions in both hardware and software. Unlike the ethereal promise of upcoming wonders from AI, robotics and the IoT, data center growth and innovation is happening in the here and now, with an even brighter future ahead the moment other nascent markets emerge from their chrysalis with killer apps of their own.

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Speedster7t Clock and Reset Architecture User Guide (UG083)

This document explains the architecture of the different clock networks in a Speedster7t FPGA and and provides information on how to use the clocks.

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Speedster7t Power User Guide (UG087)

This document describes the different power supplies that are required for the Speedster7t 7t1500 device and voltage tolerance levels for each of them. Also included are the connection guidelines for each of the power rails and recommendations for the power supply network sharing schemes at the board level.

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Speedster7t Component Library User Guide (UG086)

The Achronix Speedster7t component library provides the user with building blocks that may be instantiated into the user’s design. These components provide access to low-level fabric primitives, complex I/O blocks, and higher level design components. Each library element entry describes the operation of the component as well as any parameters that must be initialized. Verilog and VHDL templates are also provided to aide in the implementation of the user’s design.

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Speedster7t AC7t1500 Board Designers Guide (UG101) The Speedster7t AC7t1500 FPGA includes several advanced interfaces that require careful design in order to operate at their peak performance. This guide is intended as a general overview of PCB design principles that help the designer get the most out of the AC7t1500 FPGA. This guide is broken down by system components. These include the Ethernet, the PCIe5, the GDDR6 memory and the DDR4 memory interfaces. 1.0 Download
Speedster7t Power Estimator User Guide (UG093)

The Achronix Speedster7t Power Estimator tool provides a platform to calculate the power requirements for the Achronix 7nm standalone FPGAs. This user guide gives a detailed overview of the thermal and power needs depending on the device, environment and utilization of components in the design.

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Speedster7t DDR User Guide (UG096)

The Achronix Speedster7t FPGA family provides DDR subsystems that enable the user to fully utilize the low latency and high-bandwidth efficiency of these interfaces for critical applications such as high-performance compute and machine learning systems. The DDR subsystem supports memory devices and features compliant with JEDEC Standard JESD79-4B.

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Speedster7t Machine Learning Processor User Guide (UG088)

The machine learning processor block (MLP) is an array of up to 32 multipliers, followed by an adder tree, an accumulator, and a rounding/saturation/normalize block.The MLP also includes two memory blocks, a BRAM72k and LRAM2k, that can be used individually or in conjunction with the array of multipliers. The number of multipliers available varies with the bit width of each operand and the total width of input data. When the MLP is used in conjunction with a BRAM72k, the amount of data inputs to the MLP block increases along with the number of multipliers available. 

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