Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs Release Notes

ID 683415
Date 4/11/2018
Public

Acceleration Acronym List

Use the following table as a reference when reviewing the release notes.
Table 1.  Acronyms

Acronyms

Expansion

Description

AFU

Accelerator Functional Unit

Hardware Accelerator implemented in FPGA logic which offloads a computational operation for an application from the CPU to improve performance.

AF

Accelerator Function

Compiled Hardware Accelerator image implemented in FPGA logic that accelerates an application. An AFU and associated AFs may also be referred to as GBS (Green-Bits, Green BitStream) in the Acceleration Stack installation directory tree and in source code comments.

ASE

AFU Simulation Environment

Co-simulation environment that allows you to use the same host application and AF in a simulation environment. ASE is part of the Intel Acceleration Stack for FPGAs.

FIM

FPGA Interface Manager

The FPGA hardware containing the FPGA Interface Unit (FIU) and external interfaces for memory, networking, etc.

The FIM may also be referred to as BBS (Blue-Bits, Blue BitStream) in the Acceleration Stack installation directory tree and in source code comments.

The Accelerator Function (AF) interfaces with the FIM at run time.

OPAE

Open Programmable Acceleration Engine

The OPAE is a software framework for managing and accessing AFs. 

PR

Partial Reconfiguration The ability to dynamically reconfigure a portion of an FPGA while the remaining FPGA design continues to function.