AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit

Re:AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit by jeffbarr on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @08:09PM (#14152919)

Great question! I checked in with the team and this is what they told me:

"The developer FPGA code is enclaved inside AWS FPGA Shell, to prevent malicious FPGA code from damaging the hardware and to provide the necessary protection for PCI Express and the host machine. The pin assignment of the FPGA is controlled by AWS."

And

"AWS infrastructure monitors the thermals as well and the F1 hardware was designed to sustain high power consumption to enable developers to utilize the maximal available FPGA resources and frequency."

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Re:AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit by bisrig on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @09:11PM (#14153202)

I spent a few minutes poking around their project scripts, and it looks like that the design file you upload back to EC2 is a post-routed design checkpoint, which is an interesting choice... I'll bet that they are doing partial reconfiguration with the I/O ring as the "static" layer.

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