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8 years ago

Altera DE2 and OpenCL

HI, I am a beginner to OpenCL on FPGAs. I got a DE2 development and Education Board from my friend. As far as i know, this board is not the preferred board for OpenCL development. Could anyone p...
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8 years ago

This board is an old Cyclone II board and does not have an OpenCL BSP which means you cannot use OpenCL on it.

A few of Altera's board partners have Stratix V, Arria 10 and Cyclone 5 SoC boards with OpenCL support. Altera's reference Stratix V and Arria 10 boards also support OpenCL. You can find more info by following the links posted in the "FPGA Platforms" section here:

https://www.altera.com/products/design-software/embedded-software-developers/opencl/developer-zone.html