What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service

Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service by pluglus on Sunday December 11, 2016 @09:41PM (#13155103)

FPGA newbie here; How does this relate to toolsets that Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics and others make for chip design? Would you use tools from these companies to design VHDL / Verilog for the 'FPGAs as a service' or is this at all related?

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Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service by wmf on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:21AM (#13155756)

Yes, you use EDA tools to synthesize (compile) and debug VHDL/Verilog code for FPGAs, although Xilinx provides their own tools.

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Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service by nraynaud on Monday December 12, 2016 @04:18AM (#13156754)

Those tools are very close to silicium level design tools. I guess the smartest application of FPGAs on EC2 would be for FPGA design tools, they are incredibly slow.

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