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10 years ago

Accessing same memory address from HPS and FPGA

Hello everyone! I am trying to accelerate some computation by developing an accelerator in the FPGA. My idea is to replace the function invocation for a "hardware" invocation, passing some requ...
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10 years ago

The problem shouldn't be that the FPGA-Part is able to see/read/write the memory where you would like to place some data for accelerated calculations, but to give the FPGA the correct address for that, because the Linux visualizes the addresses, you would want to need a driver for that to have it work correctly.