A Platform-as-a-Service System for FPGA Education and Development

As a promising technology for the post-Moore era, FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) have been employed in a variety of cloud and edge applications to provide hardware acceleration capability. However, with the introduction of FPGAs, the system architecture and development flow are becoming more complicated. In this work, we propose a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) approach to simplify the education and development of an FPGA accelerated system, which allows the FPGA development can be completed with only a browser, and then the PaaS system can automatically perform FPGA compilation and deployment.