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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
