[HH] free access to Amazon hosted FPGAs in the cloud

[Kurt Keville]

This sounds interesting... I wonder if their boards have enough
reconfigurable logic for RISC-V designs? I have already had to eschew
my stack o' Zedboards for a slightly beefier Micorsemi board. One way
to find out...

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can get FPGAs in the cloud now? Wow.
> https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/
>
> "Amazon EC2 F1 is a compute instance with field programmable gate arrays
> (FPGAs) that you can program to create custom hardware accelerations for
> your application. ... F1 instances include 16 nm Xilinx UltraScale Plus
> FPGA. Each FPGA  includes local 64 GiB DDR4 ECC protected memory, with a
> dedicated PCIe  x16 connection. Each FPGA contains approximately 2.5
> million logic elements and approximately 6,800 Digital Signal Processing
> (DSP) engines.
> ...
> There is no charge for the FPGA Developer AMI or HDK, and you can
> program the FPGA on your F1 instance as many times as you like with no
> additional fees."
>
> I think that is saying free developer access...so interesting
> opportunity if one wanted to learn VHDL.
>
> (I'm sure the paid service is not economical for Bitcoin mining, as that
> industry has long since moved on from FPGAs to ASICs, and Amazon's
> markup would kill the thin margins mining offers over the cost of power.)
>
>  -Tom
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