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9 years ago

Board Support Package for OpenCL

Hi, Our university has two older boards that I want to use for FPGA-based OpenCL. The first board is an Altera/terasIC DE4-530 Stratix IV Development Board and an Altera Arria V GT. I downloa...
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9 years ago

For university work, you can easily get free licenses as part of Altera's university program. Getting board donations might be a little bit harder but you can get big discounts just by being part of the university program. There are also always the OpenCL-capable Cyclone V SoCs which are dirt cheap (sub 100$), but of course don't have much to offer in terms of performance compared to Stratix V/Arria 10.