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8 years ago

Arria DSP block merge with fixed point in OpenCL

Hello, I have been trying to implement fixed point algorithms using opencl for an arria10. I am interested in this approach because I run out of DSP blocks when I used floating point so I fig...
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8 years ago

I have done full compilations and have verified that the compiler is inferring fixed-point multiplication. One of the reports says that the DSP usage may be different than reported and that I should look at the optimization section of the report. However it didn't seem that it was happening. In addition I couldn't fully understand what optimizations were taking place. I did try 17.0.297 today and it seemed to have worked. I am going to run some further tests but this seems to have solved my problem.

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