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This is a level 300/400 workshop for chip engineers with experience on ASIC/FPGA design, and who want to get hands-on experience with AWS FPGA development using EC2 and EC2 F1 FPGA cloud instances, and all the related tools for FPGA development in the cloud.

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Background knowledge of C and Verilog are required to successfully complete the workshop
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The workshop consists of a number of lab modules, each designed to demonstrate a number of FPGA development concepts on AWS.

After creating an FPGA design (also called CL - Custom logic), developers can create an Amazon FPGA Image (AFI) and easily deploy it to an F1 instance. AFIs are reusable, shareable and can be deployed in a scalable and secure way.

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When you start deploying resources in the several labs in this wokshop, you will be billed for any applicable AWS resources used that are not covered in the [AWS Free Tier](https://aws.amazon.com/free/)
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