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8 years ago

What board to purchase to get started

Hi, What board should I be look at purchasing to get started programming opencl on FPGAs? Applications I am interested in are network packet parsing and processing. Thanks
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8 years ago

Unless you want to create your own OpenCL BSP, there are very few boards with existing OpenCL support, and even fewer with network support in the BSP. Check Altera's board partners that support OpenCL (Bittware, Nallatech, Terasic and Gidel). The boards are pretty similar in terms of peripherals, it all comes down to the BSP and what it supports.

You can also purchase or even borrow a development kit from Altera if you are part of the university program, which would give you very basic network support in OpenCL.