Exploiting Open Source Tools for FPGA Design Flow

The escalating demands of data processing applications have propelled Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)s into the forefront of programmable accelerators in modern computing systems. Design automation or computer-aided design (CAD) for FPGAs has played a critical role in the rapid advancement and adoption of FPGA technology over the past two decades. Traditionally, these design flows are closed-source and highly specialized to a particular vendor's devices. This paper demonstrates a fully free, open-source software (FOSS) for the FPGA design flow that works for multiple boards. Here, all the open-source tools are installed and packaged as a container and integrated with a federated platform for easy access to the users. The results show that the end-to-end resource allocation for reserving the FOSS container is around 11sec.