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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Why OpenCL haver specific boards?

i am beginner of the OpenCL. So i want to test OpneCL exapl. But I have question in this point. Why OpenCL have specific boards? According to my reserach, the OpenCL are posibly used any Altera FPGA ...
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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

If all you want to do is learn/experiment with OpenCL, why not just do it on a GPU in your PC? NVIDIA CUDA based GPUs support OpenCL development.

Then once you learn and understand OpenCL, you can move to an FPGA based environment if that is what your application requires.