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Advance e720 Accelerator Card User Guide HP BladeSystem c-Class T ype II Mezzanine Card Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B September 2008.
Table of contents Advance TM e720 Acc elerator Card User Guide 2 Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B ClearSpeed T echnology plc T able of content s Table of contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Advance TM e720 Accelerator Card Us er Guide Preface Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B 3 ClearSpeed T echnology plc Preface The guide describe s the features of the Advance TM e720 accelerator card a nd gives you information on diagnostics, tr oubleshooting, and up dating the firmware.
Before you st art Advance TM e7 20 Accelerator Card User Guide 4 Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B ClearSpeed T echnology plc 1 Before you st art This chapter gives yo u an outline on what to do be fore you install your Advanc e e720 accelerator boar d.
Advance TM e720 Accelerato r Card User Guide Before y ou start Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B 5 ClearSpeed T echnology plc 1.1 Hardware prerequisites T o install the Adv ance e720 ac celerator board, you will need; z an HP BladeSystem c-Class server or equivalent comprising of a 64-bit Intel or AMD x86 processor (or comp atible).
Features and general desc ription Advance TM e720 Acc elerator Card User Guide 6 Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B ClearSpeed T echnology plc 2 Features and general description The Advance e720 accele rator card (shown in Figure 2 ) is based on the CSX700 double-precision, floating-po int accelerator .
Advance TM e720 Accelerator Card Us er Guide Features and general des cription Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B 7 ClearSpeed T echnology plc 2.1 Firmware Board level management is implemente d in an FPGA. At power-on, the FPGA logic configuration is loaded from a flash memory devic e.
Troubleshooting - genera l guidelines Advance TM e720 Accelerator Card User Guide 8 Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B ClearSpeed T echnology plc 3 T roubleshooting - general guidelines If you encounter an error when using the Advanc e e720 accelerator board, you need to isolate the cause of the pr oblem.
Advance TM e720 Accelerator Card Us er Guide Specifications Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B 9 ClearSpeed T echnology plc 4 S pecifications This chapter lists the sp ecifications for the Advance e720 acceler ator board. 4.1 PCI configuration sp ace Ta b l e 1 shows the register v alues for th e T yp e 00h PCI co nfiguration space header .
Specifications Advance TM e720 Accelera tor Card User Guide 10 Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B ClearSpeed T echnology plc 4.4.1 T emperature monitoring The CSX700 and the FPGA cont ain on-die temp erature-sensing d iodes which are connected to temperature-moni toring devic es.
Advance TM e720 Accelera tor Card User Guide Bibliography Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B 1 1 ClearSpeed T echnology plc Bibliography [1] HP BladeSystem c-Class Mezzanine Card Installation Instructions (HP Part Number 413 773), for example: http://h20000.
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