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8 years ago

Half-precision floating point?

Hi I'm wondering if anyone know does Arria 10 GX suppot half-precision floating point (FP16) operation when programmed by OpenCL? It's mentioned in the OpenCL programming guide, but nothing in t...
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8 years ago

How to use fp16 in FPGA?

I add# pragma OPENCL EXTENSION cl_khr_fp16 : enable,

and declare data type from float to half in kernel code.

the emulator compiler will pass, however the result is wrong.

should I also modified host code too? but there is no support fp16 in C++.