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8 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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8 years ago

You don't really need to attend that class, there are very detailed documents about how you can develop your own BSP based on the reference BSPs:

https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_us/pdfs/literature/hb/opencl-sdk/ug_aocl_s5_net_platform.pdf

https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_us/pdfs/literature/hb/opencl-sdk/ug-aocl-altera-a10pciedk-platform.pdf

https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_us/pdfs/literature/hb/opencl-sdk/ug_aocl_c5soc_devkit_platform.pdf

Still, as I mentioned earlier, doing so requires considerable knowledge and experience about Quartus, QSYS, Network/PCI-E/DDR interfaces, Timing Closure, Partial Reconfiguration, etc., which not everyone has; without this knowledge and experience, even if you attend that class (or any other class), it won't help you much.