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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

Thanks heaps, that clarified a lot to me.

I found that the DE1-SoC board is labelled as "Recommended for OpenCL" so I wrote an email to terasic asking whether I would be able to start coding with that one.

About 3 times as expensive but at least still sub $1000 which would be ridiculous for an entry level board. I think the whole fpga community still needs LOTS of work regarding ease of access for newcomers. I spent the whole day today trying to set up a generic openCL IDE on my windows laptop after spending two days before, trying to set up the FPGA OpenCL environment.

Needless to say, I failed doing both as not a single IDE has worked so far.

Visual Studio is too new for CUDA SDK, AMD APP installation just fails, OpenCL FPGA needs an extra license and is HUGE, all the download links are hidden in the last corners of the homepages, it takes lots and lots of reading to find the correct package ... and it goes on and on! ARG!

-> Sorry for the rant but I am quite frustrated at the moment. I wonder whether any of you more epxerienced people out there think the same way? Or does all the chaos turn into order and usability after a while? (I am a full-time professional embedded C/C++ developer)