We provide the FPGA Developer AMI with Xilinx tools pre-installed and setup for development right away.

However, setting up an instance for development might require a few extra steps like

• Setting up a GUI Desktop.
• Setting up a Runtime instance.
• Setting up a development environment that includes an elastic compute cluster.

This document guides developers to setting up their development environment for development, building/running/debugging designs and managing costs while doing so.

We have provided the following two ways of setting up your development environment:

• Guide for creating a GUI Desktop for FPGA Development using NICE DCV and the FPGA Developer AMI
• Automated Deployment of a GUI Desktop and HPC cluster for FPGA Development based on NICE DCV and AWS ParallelCluster