Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
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. ...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
12 years ago

I expect this to happen over time but the main focus today is speed, speed, and more speed and the resources available on the low cost FPGAs make it difficult to achieve high throughput in a small hardware footprint. The technology relatively speaking is very new and advancing very quickly so I expect what you are looking for to become reality eventually but these types of jumps in technology take time.