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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

Oh yes, I fully understand. I think part of my frustration stems from the fact that - from a marketing perspective - Altera would actually benefit much more from making it easy for newcomers to get into their ecosystem. I can only point to e.g. STM32 who are doing a much better job there. $25 for a evaluation board and off you go with a free IDE. Everybody is using them now.

And, I would be willing to pay for the license - if I could get it from somewhere. It feels a bit like a broken promise - advertising OpenCL everywhere and then making it hard to get.

Anyway, not much point in me continuing the ranting along. I think I have spread enough misery here. I will report back once I found a solution.