10Gbps Ethernet Accelerator Functional Unit (AFU) Design Example User Guide: Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA

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Date 4/30/2019
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1.4. Acceleration Glossary

Table 3.  Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs Glossary
Term Abbreviation Description
Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs Acceleration Stack

A collection of software, firmware and tools that provides performance-optimized connectivity between an Intel® FPGA and an Intel® Xeon® processor.

Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA

PCIe* accelerator card with an Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA. Programmable Acceleration Card is abbreviated PAC.

Contains an FPGA Interface Manager (FIM) that pairs with an Intel® Xeon® processor over PCIe* bus.

Intel® Xeon® Scalable Platform with Integrated FPGA Integrated FPGA Platform

Intel® Xeon® plus FPGA platform with the Intel® Xeon® and an FPGA in a single package and sharing a coherent view of memory via the Ultra Path Interconnect (UPI).

OPAE_PLATFORM_ROOT   A Linux shell environment variable set up during the process of installing the OPAE SDK delivered with the Acceleration Stack.