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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago --- Quote Start --- If you are just looking for a board to learn OpenCL on try a c5soc board. They're fun! --- Quote End --- Frankly, an FPGA board would not be my first preference for learning OpenCL! I just don't understand how a company can charge thousands of dollars on hardware (and thousands of dollars for the software) and not provide board support packages for their own boards. For OpenCL, I would much rather purchase an AMD board for far less that has 100% OpenCL 1.2 support out-of-the-box. The problem set I was planning on doing was more for speedup comparisons against a GPU/CPU implementation. This whole experience is just disheartening for an FPGA neophyte like myself... PS: I understand the cost involved in doing this, but the best person to write these BSPs are the engineers/company that manufactured the board if this is the technology they want to promote...