A Remote FPGA Laboratory as a Cloud Microservice

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a web-based microservice for programming FPGAs remotely in the cloud without requiring additional hardware or third party software. Docker and Docker-compose are used to implement a scalable, secure environment for FPGA design and operation. The paper further describes in detail the architectural design, user interface, tool flow, and hardware back-end of the FPGA cloud service. The Docker files are made publicly available at GitHub.