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New Contributor@KennyTan_Altera Is there any way to use chip plan/design partition on OpenCL project/aocx file? I have to kernels and I want to enforce their chip location.
Frequent Contributor@anaza3 The point of the Quartus project is to be used by the OpenCL compiler's automatically-generated scripts for placement and routing, it is not supposed to be modified in any way by the users. Theoretically you can read through the numerous TCL scripts generated and used by the OpenCL compiler to figure out the details of the process and potentially modify it; however, this is something that is neither supported nor encouraged by Intel. You can probably achieve your goal much faster using the HLS compiler.
New Contributor@HRZ I am not sure how HLS compiler solves my problem. I have a program written for Intel OpenCL SDK, I don't think HLS can compile it unless I write the program all over again and not use the OpenCL.
As I said before, I need to use chip planner and partition planner. There should be an easier way than writing the whole program again and retargeting it for HLS.
Frequent ContributorIf your OpenCL kernel is Single Work-item, it can be converted to HLS without too much trouble since it is basically some sequential C code plus some pragmas, all of which have an equivalent in HLS. If your kernel is NDRange, however, then yes, you will have to rewrite it completely. The HLS flow is designed for FPGA programmers who are more used to traditional RTL programming and is completely different from the OpenCL flow. I am afraid I don't think there is a straightforward method to achieve what you want.
