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10 years ago

How to get C program or openCL program to call or interact with a preconfigured FPGA

Hi, I am new to FPGA's but I am wondering is it possible to to have a preconfigured FPGA already pre-built to do a particular task and have a C or C++ or openCL function call the FPGA and send and...
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10 years ago

I'd say this is one of the main purposes of FPGAs.

But what do you need exactly?

You said 'call' the FPGA. So I guess you have an external microprocessor or any other CPU and you want to offload some intensive elaboration to FPGA. Is this correct?