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Description
As the complexity of FPGA and SoC development grows, so does the need for efficient and automated processes to streamline testing, building, and collaboration, particularly in large-scale scientific environments such as CERN. This initiative focuses on providing CI infrastructure that is tailored for FPGA development and pre-configured Docker images for essential EDA tools, keeping the learning slope for the more than 100 projected users of the service minimal and using centralized and managed infrastructure that aligns well with CERN's IT services. This centralization facilitates the seamless integration of tools and workflows across diverse experiments, ensuring that development efforts are unified and scalable.
CI4FPGA facilitates testing and building processes by enabling automated pipelines, enhancing collaboration between development teams, and improving overall efficiency. The project frees FPGA designers from the resource-intensive task of maintaining clusters and container images, freeing them up to address key challenges such as automating unit and system-level testing, facilitating shared development of IP cores, among other benefits. One of the features employed is lazy pulling technology, that makes it possible to use scalable VM-based clusters with limited SSD sizes and drastically reduces container image load times from ~15 minutes to ~15 seconds.
| Desired slot length | 15 minutes |
|---|---|
| Speaker release | Yes |
