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11 years ago

New to OpenCL help

Hi, I am completely new to OpenCL for FPGAs. My understanding previously was that OpenCL is a software framework for writing code that can execute across different CPUs and GPUs. In o...
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11 years ago

There is also one huge difference between compiling openCL for a GPU and for an FPGA. It takes the compiler several hours to build the hardware image that gets loaded onto the FPGA, so compilation is not a trivial process. Loading onto the board itself is pretty fast.