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8 years ago

PCIe FPGA and Thunderbolt to PCIe interfaces

Hi, Did anyone try using a pcie fpga board over thunderbolt? I am trying to run some OpenCL code, but "aocl diagnose" doesn't seem to work. Fails trying to communicate over the PCIe bus. Dri...
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8 years ago

I am using a Nallatech 395 on a Windows 10 laptop. The board is connected via a Thunderbolt-to-PCIe chassis:

http://www.akitio.com/images/products/akitio-thunder2-pcie-box-expansion-card.jpg

In order for me to install everything, I had to disable signed drivers in Windows 10 as the "aocl install" kept failing due to this. Do you think WinDriver has problems with a PCIe card on this chassis? The next thing I am going to try is to install the card on Windows 7 desktop and see if I can get it to work properly...