Intel® oneAPI Programming Guide

Programming Guide

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Compile and Emulate Your Design

To compile and emulate your FPGA kernel design, perform the following steps:
  1. Modify the host part of your program to declare a
    ext::intel::fpga_emulator_selector
     device selector. Use this
    device_selector
     when instantiating a device queue for enqueuing your FPGA device kernel.
  2. Compile your design by including the
    -fintelfpga
     option in your
    dpcpp
     command to generate an executable.
  3. Run the resulting executable:
    • For Windows:
      1. Define the number of emulated devices by invoking the following command: 
        set CL_CONFIG_CPU_EMULATE_DEVICES=<number_of_devices>
      2. Run the executable.
      3. Invoke the following command to unset the variable: 
        set CL_CONFIG_CPU_EMULATE_DEVICES=
    • For Linux, invoke the following command: 
      env CL_CONFIG_CPU_EMULATE_DEVICES=<number_of_devices> <executable_filename>
      This command specifies the number of identical emulation devices that the emulator must provide.
    If you want to use only one emulator device, you need not set the
    CL_CONFIG_CPU_EMULATE_DEVICES
     environment variable.
  • The Intel® FPGA Emulation Platform for OpenCL™ does not provide access to physical boards. Only the emulated devices are available.
  • The emulator is built with GCC 7.4.0 as part of the
    Intel® oneAPI
    DPC++/C++
     Compiler
    . When running the executable for an emulated FPGA device, the version of
    libstdc++.so
     must be at least that of GCC 7.4.0. In other words, the
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH
     environmentvariable must ensure that the correct version of
    libstdc++.so
     is found.
    If the correct version of
    libstdc++.so
     is not found, the call to
    clGetPlatformIDs
     function fails to load the FPGA emulator platform and returns
    CL_PLATFORM_NOT_FOUND_KHR
     (error code
    -1001
    ). Depending on which version of
    libstdc++.so
     is found, the call to
    clGetPlatformIDs
     may succeed, but a later call to the
    clCreateContext
     function may fail with
    CL_DEVICE_NOT_AVAILABLE
     (error code
    -2
    ).
    If the
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH
     does not point to a compatible
    libstdc++.so
    , use the following syntax to invoke the host program: 
    env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path to compatible libstdc++.so>:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH <executable> [executable arguments]

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