Native Loopback Accelerator Functional Unit (AFU) User Guide

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Date 8/05/2019
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1.3. 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 FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (Intel FPGA PAC) Intel FPGA PAC

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