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8 years ago

Can I use openCL to develop an FPGA Accelerator device for an mac application

Hello, everyone, We have an application run on our iMacs and macBooks. It is X11 application, mainly written in C and Fortran language, running on Unix environment. what we want to do is to...
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8 years ago

Altera makes 3th way -- from embedded ARMv7 in FPGA, booting from SD-card and running with Linux.

If you may compile kernels from Win/Lin and write its to SD-flash, then may insert big PCIe board to Mac and send control manipulations through ARMs through PCIe, write data arrays to shared memory and read back results from it.

However, I recommend NVIDIA GPUs -- more faster for image processing.