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Re:Simulating RISC-V Clusters with FPGAs on AWS by gravypod on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:38PM (#15555940)
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/microsemi-corporat...

This is about half as powerful but comes preassembled and ready to go. Also "only" $500

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Re:Simulating RISC-V Clusters with FPGAs on AWS by mng2 on Thursday October 26, 2017 @12:25AM (#15556341)
The 'VU9P has ~2.5M logic elements and 6840 DSP units. The M2S090 has ~90K logic elements and 84 math blocks. It's nowhere near the same class of device.

The AWS FPGA offering only makes sense if you absolutely need a massive FPGA connected to massive amounts of RAM, and don't want to spend the bucks to own it yourself.

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Re:Simulating RISC-V Clusters with FPGAs on AWS by blackguardx on Thursday October 26, 2017 @01:54AM (#15556692)
Microsemi doesn't make high performance FPGAs. Their niche is aerospace/defense, low-power, and flash/instant-on FPGAs.
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