Quartus Prime Lite OpenCL Licensing

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Good point. I suspect that the Lite Edition is only meant for Cyclone V devices since it is the only valid combo (OpenCL + Lite). I think it is best to check with Altera on the licensing option - I could be wrong here.

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That's exactly my setup: I have a DE0-Nano-SoC based on Cyclone V for learning purposes.

I managed to install Quartus Prime Lite + OpenCL by downloading "Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL" from the "Individual Files" section on the Quartus Prime Standard edition download page (a 400 MB download).

Now, two problems remain:

- About licensing, when I try to compile a OpenCL kernel:

$ aoc hello_world.cl

Could not acquire a valid license for the Intel(R) FPGA SDK for OpenCL(TM).

I asked Altera support about licensing for this setup. Let's see what they say.

- The linux_sd_card_image provided by the OpenCL SDK doesn't boot on the DE0-Nano. I probably will have to create my own OpenCL BSP, since the ones I found online were made for OpenCL 14, and I would like to use 16.1.

I'll update this thread when/if I get these things to work.

Thanks.