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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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8 years ago

On this page: https://www.altera.com/products/design-software/embedded-software-developers/opencl/overview.html

Lots of less expensive choices detailed here: https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_us/pdfs/products/software/opencl/opencl-dev-kit-guide.pdf

One of the Terasic CycloneV SOC boards would be a good starter choice (for 1/10 the price of the Nallatech) to learn OpenCL. Then when you get really serious and have some OpenCL experience maybe a Nallatech board will make sense.

I have used lots of different Terasic boards and they are very good in my opinion.