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11 years ago

Mixing OpenCL kernel with VHDL Netlists

Hi, Is it possible for the output of an OpenCL kernel to reside in the same FPGA as a VHDL netlist? For example, could I implement an algorithm in OpenCL and a display driver in VHDL? The intentio...
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11 years ago

Hi BadOmen,

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I guess what you are saying here is that a variant of the Board Support Package, for a particular board, needs to be created with custom modifications in order to use non-OpenCL code on the same FPGA fabric. A device driver should then be written, in say C when using LINUX, to address the custom logic that is not related to the OpenCL kernel..