Welcome to the Vitis AWS F1 Developer Labs. By going through these labs you will gain hands-on experience with AWS F1 and learn how to develop accelerated applications using the Xilinx Vitis development environment.

In order to run the Vitis AWS F1 Developer Labs, you need the following:

• An AWS account
• Access to AWS F1 instances
• Familiarity with launching an AWS EC2 F1 instance with RDP services enabled

If you need help with any of the above, follow the setup instructions

These labs are based on Vitis 2019.2 available with the FPGA Developer AMI 1.8.1. Please make sure to select this version when you launch your instance. To find this AMI, search for "FPGA Developer AMI - 1.8.1" in the Community AMIs.

• Running the "Hello World" example
• Introduction to the Vitis development environment
• Using the Vitis GUI to optimize applications

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• Profile the software application and determine which functions to accelerate on FPGA
• Working with a predefined FPGA accelerator, optimize performance by overlapping data transfers and FPGA execution
• Further speed-up the application by overlapping FPGA execution and CPU processing

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• Determine the software functions to be accelerated
• Begin with a baseline design of 2D convolution of an RGBA video and a set of filter coefficients using ffmpeg
• Perform a series of optimization methods to achieve the performance target

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Visit the Vitis Developer Zone for more information about FPGA acceleration.