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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

Having hard time choosing FPGAs used in DNN

I was new to FPGAs but I'll use OpenCL for programming. I was planing to run deep learning algorithm on FPGAs. Even though I will train the models on my computer, speed still need to be consid...
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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

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Data rate should be under 10 GB/s, no special interface required.

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With 10GB/s, you will need a special interface. You're looking at 10GB ethernet or PCIe v3.0 x16 (I think all the altera dev cards are x8).

Why such a huge data rate requirement?