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Honored ContributorHow to get OpenCL kernel simulation performance by Altera OpenCL SDK or Quartus II?
I am using OpenCL to program FPGA by Altera OpenCL SDK. However, I don't have an Altera FPGA board now. Thus currently I just want to do emulation or simulation to get performance like number of c...
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Honored ContributorHi Miguel,
You do need a AOCL license to compile your OpenCL kernel code (and for synthesis as well). The board is only necessary when you want to perform actual performance evaluation using a real FPGA. The emulator is useful for functional debug of your kernel; the OpenCL kernel code is compiled into a shared-library that is called at runtime, which enables debugging using any traditional debugger such as GDB. Hope this helps. David
