Xilinx Announces New Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) F1 Enabler Types for its 16-nm UltraScale + Family of FPGAs to Accelerate Gene Research, Financial Analysis, and Imaging in Amazon’s Cloud-Based Web Services (AWS) Processing, massive data, security, and machine learning to infer workloads.

In addition to the Amazon EC2 F1 implementation, AWS has released an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) design tool that provides FPGA developers with pre-built development tools and scripts that include the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite and authorizations. pps272

“We believe that FPGAs will be the dominant application for cloud computing,” said Steve Glaser, senior vice president of Xilinx’s Enterprise Strategy Group. “The AWS announcement last week confirms that this trend is taking place and is unstoppable. lm2936mp-5.0/nopb