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12 years ago

OpenCL dev board

Hello Looking at Altera's website, it would seem the OpenCL SDK is priced rather steeply, and only available for expensive PCIe boards. It seems to be targeted mostly at vertical markets. ...
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12 years ago

Yes, I know Altera is not selling any OpenCL boards... as per the current definition of an OpenCL board.

What I was trying to say is that many hobbyists with a CS background, including me, are not taking the plunge and learning a full HDL, with all the skill set and know-how it requires, but we'd love to be able to program something like the Cyclone III Starter Kit for small projects, if we could do so in OpenCL.

It's the same reason we love the Arduino, with its simple C API and easy to use IDE, much more so than if we had to study the original SDK of the actual microcontrollers. I hope I'm making sense.

I just wanted to throw it out there. I'm looking forward to the future Arduino of FPGAs, as soon as somebody (maybe Altera?) will be able to make FPGAs universally programmable by people with little or no hardware design background.

On the same vein, see this ACM article: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2443836