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8 years ago

Getting Started with OpenCL Programming on FPGA

Hi,

I am doing a dissertation using OpenCL on FPGA. I have set up the platform and managed to compile and execute sample programs on both emulator and device.

However I now need to start developing my own application and have no clue where to start. I have looked for basic Hello World examples but find even those very confusing.

I would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction to start coding in OpenCL some very basic programs that I can then build upon like one would in normal C programming. I appreciate OpenCL is much more complicated so that may not be possible, and understand that this is a broad quesstion, but help would be appreciated regardless on how to make the process easier, would be grateful !

Thank you in advance

Tomas

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    Altera_Forum
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    8 years ago

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    Start with this free online training and then move on to the running and writing OpenCL trainings linked there.

    https://www.altera.com/support/training/course/oopncl100.html

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    I've just been through this, and apart from learning a bit more about the theory, I have gained no experience in actually programming OpenCL applications from scratch. It is the basic examples which I find confusing. I want to learn by example like I did with C programming and C++, however I cannot find examples. I can't find anything I can follow at a basic level so that I can build upon it as I imrpove.