F2 Developer Kit Release Notes#
v2.2.0#
Release of Vivado/Vitis 2025.1 Tools on FPGA Developer AMI 1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
Introduced MSI-X PCIe Interrupts Guided Example
v2.1.2#
Introduced Python Bindings to the SDK
Added documentation for Python binding usage and setup
Examples demonstrating Python-based FPGA control
Added link to instructions for DCV licensing setup. Credit to @morgnza for this update!
Added verbiage to DCV setup guide to show where to set virtual display resolution
Fix to Bandwidth Calculation
v2.1.1#
Added global register offset for the SDE IP. See CL_SDE software examples.
Added CL_SDE software exmaple for a user allocated DMA buffer.
Documentation to assist F2 customers with releasing AFIs and AMIs on the AWS Marketplace.
Documentation to assist in creating a virtual desktop based on the FPGA Developer AMI running graphics-intensive applications remotely on Amazon EC2 instances.
Fixed the BW calculation and tolerance calculation in the test_hbm_perf_random in the cl_mem_perf.
v2.1.0#
Support for Vivado and Vitis 2024.2 tools.
Updating the asynchronous fpga_mgmt_examples to poll each FPGA once before moving to the next.
v2.0.7#
Documentation updates to improve ReadTheDocs navigation and inline snippets.
XSIM template script update to extend the waveform dump time.
Added section with instructions for assigning custom PCIe IDs to HDK README.
Added supplementary XDMA driver installation guide
Updated ERRATA with fix for XSIM when simulating HBM.
Revised the Vitis README with updated code snippets, more detail about the XRT setup, and a new guided example of the Hardware Emulation workflow.
Fixed HDK DCP Tarball path issue described in #706.
v2.0.6#
Releasing CL_SDE software examples to demonstrate how to use the Streaming Data Engine (SDE) DMA for small shell.
Fixing the virtual ethernet PacketGen Dual Instance Loopback example to forward packets back to the PacketGen instance.
Fixing DDR backdoor access in simulation.
v2.0.5#
Releasing instructions for using the Vivado GUI.
Updating virtual_ethernet_install.py to no longer require sudo when run.
Updating f2_mgmt_example, load_multiple_fpga.c, to load AFIs in parallel.
Updated ReadTheDocs theme.
Added the “F2 Software Performance Optimization Guide” with techniques for f2.48xlarge instances
v2.0.4#
Release of new F2 instance size, f2.6xlarge:
Instance Name |
FPGAs |
vCPUs |
FPGA Memory HBM/DDR4 |
Instance Memory (GB) |
Local Storage (GiB) |
Network Bandwidth (Gbps) |
EBS Bandwidth (Gbps) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
f2.6xlarge |
1 |
24 |
16 GiB / 64 GiB |
256 |
1 x 950 |
12.5 |
7.5 |
f2.12xlarge |
2 |
48 |
32 GiB / 128 GiB |
512 |
2 x 950 |
25 |
15 |
f2.48xlarge |
8 |
192 |
128 GiB / 512 GiB |
2048 |
8 x 950 |
100 |
60 |
v2.0.3#
Releasing fpga_mgmt_examples to demonstrate how the FPGA Management C API is used to perform FPGA image slot load and clear operations.
Releasing the PacketGen Dual Instance Loopback example to the SDK Virtual Ethernet Application.
Fixing the clkgen CLIs to prevent the configuration of clock groups that were removed from the AWS_CLK_GEN IP in customer designs.
v2.0.2#
Updates for initial release of ReadTheDocs documentation and to re-enable tests for XSIM.
v2.0.1#
Updates to HDK, SDK, and Vitis documentation.
Added check for XRT install to enable Vitis hardware emulation.
XRT install can now be performed automatically by running a
command presented during vitis_setup.sh.
v2.0.0#
Initial release. F2 general-availability companion.