Implementation of FPGA Building Platform as a Cloud Service.

The building environment for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) development has a number of requirements such as using high-end computers for faster hardware compilation and installing the various versions of FPGA computer-aided design (CAD) tools specified by different projects while at the same avoiding conflicts between these tools. These requirements make it difficult to enable FPGA development on a wide range of devices, which is critical for developers from different application domains if they are to leverage FPGAs to their full extent. In this work, we propose an FPGA project building platform that reduces hardware costs by sharing highperformance servers between developers and enables a variety of FPGA CAD tools to be available in one platform by using container technology. The evaluation of the proposed platform showed that it provides shared and clean building environments without having significant performance overhead.