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Official repository of the AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2016-11-30 · latest 2024-04-23

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  1. …learning, but they are in the right place at the right time. You can rent high end FPGAs on AWS, https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga there is no better time to get into FPGAs. On the low end there is the excellent…
  2. See https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga/blob/master/README.md#gettin...
  3. …when Amazon creates FPGA images you can load, so I doubt you can go out of the way very much, here. https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga/blob/master/hdk/docs/clock_r... https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga/blob/83c80efd30862d862ea8f99...
  4. …that the HDK license is so unfree -- it looks like you can't ever use the HDK outside AWS ( https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga/blob/master/hdk/LICENSE.txt#... ).
  5. …But instead, I'm looking at this right now. This morning. Waiting for the damn 404 to go away on: https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga This reduces the barrier to entry. It also reduces the transaction cost (h/t Ronald Coase).
  6. …FPGA image in verilog/VHDL and upload it... and then run it. To me that seems like magic. HDK here: https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga (I work for AWS)