TCS: FaaS (FPGA as a service)

Abstract

This presentation firstly points out the dilemma of traditional FPGA industry, then points out that the flexible and easy-to-use cloud services is a feasible way to solve the difficulties of FPGA. Tencent's architecture try to solve the puzzle of FPGA cloud service auto generation using the idea of API as a service. To achieve the goal, Tencent released HDK, SDK, and Tencent Computing Service (TCS) platform to help developers to automatically convert their APIs to cloud service.