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JGuerra
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7 years ago

The OpenCL kernel is synthesized as a hardware in the FPGA or it runs as software in some sort of custom hardware synthesized?

I would like to confirm if a OpenCL kernel processed by the AOC compiler is synthesized itself as a hardware or if some sort of custom design, something that look likes a custom CPU or GPU is assem...
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HRZ
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7 years ago

It is the first case. The OpenCL "kernel" is optimized and converted to verilog and then synthesized as usual. The OpenCL "host code" will run on the host CPU, though.