Electronic Design

How To Put OpenCL Into An FPGA

Altera is looking to put OpenCL (Open Computing Language) into FPGA hardware. This could give GPUs a run for the money when it comes to accelerating parallel processing. It could also increase ...
Electronic Design

OpenCL FPGA SDK Arrives

Altera's SDK for OpenCL is designed to put OpenCL code into an FPGA without requiring any additional FPGA design expertise. Khronos Group's OpenCL has become very popular with GPU platforms and it ...
insideHPC

How OpenCL Could Open the Gates for FPGAs

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe explains how OpenCL may make FPGAs an attractive option. In January 2015, FPGAs took a step closer to the mainstream of ...
EDN

FPGA IDE is OpenCL standard compliant

This product is featured in EDN's Hot 100 products of 2015. See all 100 here. The Xilinx SDAccel integrated development environment for OpenCL, C, and C++ complies with the Khronos OpenCL 1.0 ...
Design-Reuse

ReFLEX CES announces its first release of the High Performance Computing OpenCL BSP for the Altera Arria 10 FPGA

Paris, France -- November 9, 2015 – ReFLEX CES, an established ALTERA Design Service Network (DSN) members announced the introduction of the High Performance Computing (HPC) OpenCL BSP (Board Support ...
The Next Platform

OpenCL Opens Doors to Deep Learning Training on FPGA

Hardware and device makers are in a mad dash to create or acquire the perfect chip for performing deep learning training and inference. While we have yet to see anything that can handle both parts of ...
EDN

Compiling OpenCL to FPGAs

Heterogeneous computing refers to a growing class of systems in which an application is executed on a mixture of dissimilar processor and accelerator devices to maximize throughput. The execution of a ...
The Next Platform

OpenCL Optimizations Make Case for FPGAs in HPC

The use of FPGAs in HPC is limited less by the capabilities of current hardware and more by the challenges in programming them without sacrificing performance. Recent work from Boston University has ...
Forbes

For Intel, Adding Altera, FPGA Hardware Is Easy: Next Comes Supporting Software

With last week's big Altera acquisition Intel made an expensive bet on a future of data center hardware that uses significantly more customized designs than today's monolithic racks of commodity x86 ...
eTeknix

Khronos to Merge OpenCL and Vulkan into One API

Non-profit developer Khronos has announced that it will merge its OpenCL parallel programming framework with its graphics API Vulkan. The big news was strangely buried in a statement regarding the ...
insideHPC

FPGA Programming Made Easy

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are becoming an increasingly popular tool for applications where high performance, low latency and power efficiency are requires. Since an FPGA can be ...