Altera ® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Software Technology

Utilizing the Altera FPGA SDK for OpenCL software technology, developers can speed up their applications by targeting heterogeneous platforms that use Altera  CPUs and FPGAs. This exceptional development environment blendsAltera 's sophisticated software development frameworks and compiler technology with the revolutionary Altera ® Quartus® Prime Software. This results in an advanced development environment that abstracts FPGA details while providing optimized outcomes. By fully exploiting the unique capabilities of FPGAs, the Altera  FPGA SDK for OpenCL software technology achieves accelerated performance, excellent power efficiency, and low latency.

OpenCL

 

OpenCL Software Features Summary
Offline Compiler
  • GCC-based model compiler of OpenCL kernel code
OpenCL Utility
  • Diagnostics for board installation
  • Flash or program FPGA image
  • Install board drivers (typically PCI Express)
Altera  Code Builder for OpenCL API
  • Edit, build, and debug OpenCL kernels
  • Collect runtime performance
  • View generated reports
Operating System
  • Microsoft Windows 10
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Read Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • SUSE SLE 12
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Memory Requirements
  • Computer equipped with at least 32 GB RAM

 

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