Re:Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware
by duskwuff on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @08:29PM
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You can do some simulation on a computer, but it's much slower than real time, even for a small design. Prototyping PCIe communications is also difficult without real hardware.
Re:Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware
by gricardo99 on Thursday December 01, 2016 @06:57PM
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Hi Jeff,
Point of clarification for this:
In instances with more than one FPGA, dedicated PCIe fabric allows the FPGAs to share the same memory address space and to communicate with each other across a PCIe Fabric at up to 12 Gbps in each direction.
Does that mean you can have FPGAs running on multiple F1 instances connected via the PCIe Fabric? It's not clear if this means FPGAs within a single F1 instance, or between multiple F1 instances.
You can do all of the design and simulation on any EC2 instance with enough memory and cores. You don't have to run the dev toolchain on the target instance type.