FPGA Development for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits with Visual Studio Code on Linux*

Developer Guide

  • 2023.0
  • 12/16/2022
  • Public Content
Contents

Build and Run the FPGA Emulation Image for Fast Compile

The FPGA emulation image is a fast-running compile that can help you achieve functionally correct code. For detailed information, refer to Types of FPGA Compilation in the
Intel® oneAPI Programming Guide
. You can compile a basic FPGA sample to the FPGA emulator target by performing the following:
Not all oneAPI sample projects use
CMake
. The
README.md
 file for each sample specifies how to build the sample. For samples that use
CMake
, Intel® recommends you refer to the CMake Tools Extension for Visual Studio Code article that is maintained by Microsoft*.
  1. Under the
    FPGA
    Tutorials
     section, hover over the Compile Flow sample and click
    +
     to create a project.
    You are promoted to select a folder to save the project.
  2. Save the project. A new VS Code session is now open with the Compile Flow sample.
  3. Open a terminal in VS Code.
  4. Run the
    cd
     command to move to the top-level directory of the newly created project.
  5. Run the following command to create a directory named
    build
    : 
    mkdir build
  6. Run the
    cd
     command to move to the newly created
    build
     directory.
  7. Run the following command to build the sample. The project build files are written into the
    build
     directory. 
    cmake ..
  8. Run the following command to select the emulation build target: 
    make fpga_emu
    Refer to the FPGA code sample
    README
     file to find the right
    make
     target.
    You should now observe an executable named
    compile_flow.fpga_emu
     in your directory. Use this file as the emulator executable for the design.
  9. Execute the following command to run the emulator executable: 
    ./compile_flow.fpga_emu

Product and Performance Information

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Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.