README.md

Amazon F1 instance walk through tutorial

This tutorial uses the hello-world (RTL) design provided by aws-fpga but could be extended to other designs. Additionally, the FPGA AMI version used is 1.3.4 and the git-tag of aws-fpga is v1.3.6.

1. Create an AWS account
2. Generate SSH keys
3. Create S3 credential
4. Request access to Amazon EC2 F1 instances
5. Create an AMI instance
6. Configure S3 bucket
7. Setup development environment
8. Simulate the design
9. Build the hardware design
10. Generate the AFI
11. Program the FPGA
12. Compile the runtime of the design
13. Bookkeping the AFI

After you finish this walk through tutorial, you will normally iterate step 8 and step 13