lymenziesMar 23

Microsoft has been using #fpga in #smartnics in their data centers for many years as part of projects Catapult and Brainwave.

I don't know enough about fpgas to know what I can do with them, but the price on the used market is too tempting to pass these up.

Here's a good write up about the boards and making use of them.

https://www.devops.lol/used-fpga-boards/

Used FPGA boards

This post documents my quest for finding boards with high end FPGA devices and peripherals for reasonable prices. Used SmartNICs I started looking at accelerators and first generation SmartNICs.

Show threadTom Verbeure

@lymenzies There are plenty of FPGA boards out there to reverse engineer, but an additional constraint is finding those that don’t require a commercial Vivado or Quartus license.
The current favorite is the Alibaba Accelerator Card:

https://ebay.us/m/yZd4HQ

I bought one but haven’t played with it.

Alibaba Accelerator Card +FPGE xilinx XCKU3P-FFVB676 R1291-F9003-026- | eBay

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Show threadlymenziesMar 23

@tom_verbeure

Thanks for this. I’ll add it to my watch list.