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10 years ago

How to call external library with OpenCL on FPGA?

Hi, I have existing program which is computation intensive. That is why I want to try with FPGA using OpenCL for acceleration. The program is my computations are all done through certain librar...
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10 years ago

I don't know if it is possible, but I think you may find the libraries are not coded in a way that lets the Altera OpenCL compiler generate efficient hardware. This may not give you the acceleration you might expect. Can you try using a library? That would anwer your question.