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8 years ago

An issue about compiling the OpenCL to FPGA

Hi, I met an issue about compiling the OpenCL HelloWorld/Vector_add code to FPGA. Quartus Prime can offload the VHDL code into the FPGA board but the OpenCL SDK and compiler can not progra...
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8 years ago

You are not supposed to compile and load the driver manually. Just make sure AOCL_BOARD_PACKAGE_ROOT points to your BSP and run "aocl install". That will compile and load the PCI-E driver automatically.

These steps are described in Terasic's document.