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I'd be interested in practical use cases that come to your mind (like someone who commented about genomics data processing for a university). What could YOU use this for professionally? (I certainly always wanted to play around with an FPGA for fun...)
For complex designs the simulator that comes with the Vivado tools (Mentor's modelsim) is not going to cut it. I wonder if they are working on deals with Mentor (or competitors Cadence and Synopsys) to license their full-featured simulators. Even better, maybe Amazon (and others getting into this space like Intel and Microsoft) will put their weight behind an open source VHDL/Verilog simulator. A few exist but they a…
If you don't click through to read about this: you can write an FPGA image in verilog/VHDL and upload it... and then run it. To me that seems like magic. HDK here: https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga (I work for AWS)
So it's tied to the PCIe bus - how do you interact with your FPGA once you programmed it - are there general drivers you can use, or do you also have to create a linux driver to talk to your FPGA ?
Just wait till this gets combined with Lambda.
I'd be interested in practical use cases that come to your mind (like someone who commented about genomics data processing for a university). What could YOU use this for professionally? (I certainly always wanted to play around with an FPGA for fun...)
Monte Carlo sims for options pricing? I've done this before on FPGA, might have a go at doing it for this instance as a fun exercise to test the concept!
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Monte Carlo sims for options pricing? I've done this before on FPGA, might have a go at doing it for this instance as a fun exercise to test the concept!
Not sure if that makes sense with the offer that Amazon has. The machines are huge, so either you're pricing a huge amount of options at a very high speed (which you'd probably do in-house with FPGAs that you own), or you'll be much cheaper using a good machine locally. Never found MC sims to be a bottleneck regarding time, but YMMV I guess?
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Any thoughts on why AWS/Xilinx didn't go for a mid-range FPGA to help validate customer requirements? My guess is that Amazon will have to be very careful not to price themselves out of the market, for mid-range Deep Learning based cloud apps. Wild guestimate but I think it'll cost more than $20/hr for each instance.
Based on my speculation, and to make a long analysis short: fewer, bigger FPGAs are better in the cloud from a user experience perspective than more, smaller FPGAs. The big applications are all going to consume as much FPGA fabric as they can (machine learning, data analysis, etc). Even "mid-range" Deep Learning will consume these FPGAs like candy. Non-deep learning will too; they can always just go more parallel and…
Quick Question: If anyone wants to learn programming an FPGA is learning C only way to go ? how hard is to learn and program in verilog/VHDL without electrical background ? If anyone suggests links or books, please do Thank You
I have a physics background but not an EE background. I found verilog pretty easy to grasp. VHDL took me a lot longer. To get some basic ideas I always recommend the book code by charles petzold: https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw... It walks you through everything from the transistor to the operating system. (Apparently I need to add that I work for AWS on every message so yes I work for AW…
Quick Question: If anyone wants to learn programming an FPGA is learning C only way to go ? how hard is to learn and program in verilog/VHDL without electrical background ? If anyone suggests links or books, please do Thank You
I would suggest Digital Design by Morris Mano[1]. It'll start off with basic intro from digital gates to FPGAs itself! And you really don't need any EE background for this book. This book starts from absolute basics and it'll also teach you Verilog along the way. And verilog is used more in the industry than VHDL(which more popular in Europe and in the US army for some reason). I'm surprised where you got the idea of…
If you don't click through to read about this: you can write an FPGA image in verilog/VHDL and upload it... and then run it. To me that seems like magic. HDK here: https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga (I work for AWS)
This is so awesome, I can't even. I wrote arachne-pnr [0] to learn about FPGAs to get ready for this day. Just signed up, can't way to play with these! I hope the growing popularity of FPGAs for general-purpose computing will help push the vendors to open up bitstreams and invest in open-source design tools. [0] https://github.com/cseed/arachne-pnr