Quick Start Guide for Intel® FPGA Development Tools on the Microsoft* Azure* Platform

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1. Quick Start Guide for Intel® FPGA Development Tools on the Microsoft* Azure* Platform 2. Document Revision History for Quick Start Guide for Intel® FPGA Development Tools on the Azure* Cloud
1. Quick Start Guide for Intel® FPGA Development Tools on the Microsoft* Azure* Platform x
1.1. Creating an Azure* Account 1.2. Licensing Intel® FPGA Software for the Azure* Cloud 1.3. Licensing IP Cores 1.4. Managing Intel® FPGA Software on the Azure* Cloud 1.5. Persistent Storage and Data Transference 1.6. Hosting a License Server in the Microsoft* Azure* Cloud 1.7. Connecting to the License Server 1.8. Example: Running Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Space Explorer II 1.9. Example: Running the ''Hello World'' Program Using the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™
1.4. Managing Intel® FPGA Software on the Azure* Cloud x
1.4.1. Signing In the Azure* Web Portal 1.4.2. Selecting Intel® FPGA Tool from the Azure* Marketplace 1.4.3. Specifying the Virtual Machine Characteristics 1.4.4. Launching the Virtual Machine 1.4.5. Connecting to the Azure* Virtual Machine Using SSH 1.4.6. Obtaining a GUI Desktop on the Running Azure* Virtual Machine 1.4.7. Opening the Intel® Quartus® Prime Software 1.4.8. Terminating the Virtual Machine
1.4.3. Specifying the Virtual Machine Characteristics x
1.4.3.1. Basic Settings 1.4.3.2. Machine Size and Instance Type 1.4.3.3. Network Settings
1.4.5. Connecting to the Azure* Virtual Machine Using SSH x
1.4.5.1. Connecting from a Windows* Computer 1.4.5.2. Connecting from a Linux Computer
1.6. Hosting a License Server in the Microsoft* Azure* Cloud x
1.6.1. Create a License Server Machine in the Azure* Cloud 1.6.2. Upload the Flexlm License Server to the Server Machine 1.6.3. Configure and Start the License Server 1.6.4. Manage the License Server
1.7. Connecting to the License Server x
1.7.1. Preserving the MAC Address
1.8. Example: Running Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Space Explorer II x
1.8.1. Starting Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Space Explorer II 1.8.2. Setting Up an Intel® Quartus® Prime Project
1. Quick Start Guide for Intel® FPGA Development Tools on the Microsoft* Azure* Platform
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1.8.1. Starting Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Space Explorer II

To start Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Space Explorer II, select a large instance with multiple CPU cores. The compilations run on the same machine and share the memory.

  1. Select an instance type with enough memory for the desired parallelism.
    An Intel® Arria® 10 design requires about 50GB of RAM. To perform ten compilations in parallel, choose an instance type with sufficient memory and at least 10 cores.
    • The Microsoft* Azure* Memory-optimized Standard_E64_v3 instance type has 532GB RAM and 64 CPU cores.
  2. Launch the job.
  3. In the virtual desktop, open a terminal and type: 
    quartus_dsew&
Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Space Explorer II starts.
Figure 13.  Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Space Explorer II
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