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Axelera connected to laptop setup?

  • July 20, 2026
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Is there a possibility of having voyager SDK installed on laptop running Linux and having Metis m2 card connected to laptop over some adapter?

My setup is Linux laptop and Axelera Metis m2 card seated in a USB4 M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure from Ugreen (input 5V 3A max) that is connected to laptop via thunderblot usb cable.

I have voyager SDK installed and the OS recognizes the axelera device and I have been able to communicate with it. But when running actual detection processes it seems to power reset the adapter device or PCIe comunication errors out…

Any tips to have this metis card working with a laptop reliably?
 

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  • Axelera Team
  • July 20, 2026

I think there’s some experimentation been done with a USB, or maybe lightning, adapter but not much, I’m afraid. It’s probably not on the roadmap either.

It might have been ​@Victor Labian who was dabbling with it? There won’t be anything official in terms of support, but he might be able to give you a couple of pointers as to whether it’s worth further investigation or potentially a dead end? 🙂


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  • Cadet
  • July 20, 2026

Thanks for the reply, I know it is a bit hacky and for sure I do not expect you to work on supporting this. But would be great if you have some insight if you tried something similar internally. My use case is that I need to run some simulation software on my laptop that interacts with the voyager sdk.


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  • July 20, 2026

Totally agree that it could be really cool being able to plug one in via USB or something, when you need a bit of acceleration on the laptop! That’d be an excellent use case, to be honest...