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14 years ago

Using OpenCL with FPGA

In recent months, Altera has accelerated its effort to promote OpenCL in university programs.

Does It's possible to make same design in FPGA using the DE4-230 and OpenCL by PCIe?

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    14 years ago

    Yes, this is the right place to ask questions.

    The answer is no. I doubt you will have any luck in getting an OpenCL design working on any hardware yet. Its a future feature that is yet to be officially supported.

    Go and learn VHDL or SystemVerilog.

    Cheers,

    Dave
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    14 years ago

    Thanks for the reply.

    The comment is interesting, however languages as VHDL or Verilog out of respect when the focus of development is integration of hybrid systems with FPGA, GPGPU, CPU and DSP.

    Best Regards.
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    14 years ago

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    The comment is interesting, however languages as VHDL or Verilog out of respect when the focus of development is integration of hybrid systems with FPGA, GPGPU, CPU and DSP.

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    In a hybrid system, you write code in the optimal language of the target, i.e., VHDL/Verilog for the FPGAs, CUDA/OpenCL for the GPUs, and C/C++ for the CPUs and DSPs (using DSP-specific intrinsics as needed).

    There is no one language fits all and there never will be.

    Cheers,

    Dave