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8 years ago

OpenCL with Terasic Atlas-SOC an Quartus Lite possible?

Hi everyone, I just bought myself a Terasic DE0 Atlas-SOC board because I'd like to explore the possibilities of OpenCL FPGA programming. I've done some VHDL at university once but found it t...
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8 years ago

Please refer to this file:

https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_us/pdfs/literature/po/ss-quartus-comparison.pdf

OpenCL requires its own license regardless of which version of Quartus you are using. You can run emulations without a license, but you cannot compile against a real BSP. Apart from this, as far as I can see, there is no OpenCL BSP for this board on Terasic's website, meaning that even if you did have an OpenCL license, you still wouldn't be able to use it to program this board because Terasic does not supply an OpenCL BSP for it.