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8 years agoThe only boards with existing official OpenCL support are the Stratix V and Arria 10 reference boards from Altera and a few boards from Terasic, Bittware, Nallatech and Gidel which are also mostly based on Stratix V, Arria 10 and Cyclone V SoCs. The two boards you mentioned more than likely do not have existing support for OpenCL. Creating an OpenCL BSP is not at all a simple task and can only be done by people with years of experience in hardware design and hence, only companies that can sell a lot of boards will attempt to spend resources on creating a BSP for their boards.
Altera has reference BSPs for Stratix V, Arria 10 and Cyclone V and building custom BSPs on top of those for custom boards with similar specs is possible, but creating a BSP for a custom board from scratch, without having a reference BSP, would be next to impossible for the average FPGA programmer. P.S. You can join Altera's university program and see if you can get a reference Stratix V or Arria 10 board donated to you.