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9 years ago

Completely Lost, Anyone Have Any Ideas?

Hello, I am sorry if this is in the wrong section. I am also very sorry if this is beating a dead horse. I recently purchased a de0-nano-soc **couple days ago**. I have since been trying to fig...
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9 years ago

Hi LostCharacter,

Welcome to the wonderful world of FPGAs! Take a chill pill and relax, cuz it's a bumpy road all the way.

So, from this website (https://rocketboards.org/foswiki/view/projects/openclmandelbrotdemoonatlassoc) we can see that your board can run OpenCL. From the same website, we see that the requirements for running OpenCL on that board are:

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This is what I had on my system.

Quartus 15.0

SoC EDS 15.0

Altera OpenCL SDK 15.0

Centos 6.6

git

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So to answer one of your questions, yes, you do need a license for quartus and the altera opencl sdk to run it. From the last error you are getting, it is clear that the Altera OpenCL SDK is not installed (or you have no license). I do not know if a license is included with this kit, or if there is a free license for the CycloneV chip included on your board. Maybe someone else can give some input on this.

Take a look at this altera manual: https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_us/pdfs/literature/hb/opencl-sdk/aocl_c5soc_getting_started.pdf

Also, first step should be to get that Mandelbrot demo working (after you get your licenses).

Good luck!