Introduction
This article lists the system requirements for Intel® FPGA Add-On for oneAPI Base Toolkit.
For compiler-specific requirements, refer to Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler System Requirements. For base kit-specific requirements, refer to Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit System Requirements.
NOTE: For what's new in the toolkit, refer to the dedicated article Intel® FPGA Add-On for oneAPI Base Toolkit Release Notes.
System Requirements
RAM Requirements
- 48 GB for Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA
- 64 GB for Intel® FPGA PAC D5005 (recommended)
NOTE: Intel recommends that your system be configured to provide virtual memory equal to the recommended physical RAM necessary to process your design.
Hardware Requirements
FPGA Cards
- Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA with Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs Version 1.2.1
- Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card D5005 (previously known as Intel® PAC with Intel® Stratix® 10 SX FPGA) with Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs Version 2.0.1
NOTE: Use Intel® FPGA PAC D5005 for development purposes only and not for production on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Custom Platforms (Ported from Intel® Arria® 10 GX and Intel® Stratix® 10 GX reference platforms)
See also Software Patches for oneAPI 2021.2 and older releases.
- Custom platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 21.2 software
- Custom platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 21.1 software
- Custom platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 20.4 software
- Custom platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 20.3 software
- Custom platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 20.2 software
- Custom platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 19.4 software
NOTE: Intel® FPGA Add-on for Custom Platforms does not contain FPGA drivers. Consult your BSP vendor or the BSP documentation for BSP-specific software requirements, including the OS support.
Software Requirements
| Add-on Package | Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS (kernel version 4.15) |
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | SLES* 15 SP3 | RHEL*/ CentOS* 8.x |
Microsoft Windows* 10 (64 bit) |
Microsoft Windows Server* 2016 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FPGA Add-on for Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA and Intel® FPGA PAC D5005 | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| FPGA Add-on for Custom Platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 21.2 software | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FPGA Add-on for Custom Platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 21.1 software | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FPGA Add-on for Custom Platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 20.4 software | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FPGA Add-on for Custom Platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 20.3 software | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FPGA Add-on for Custom Platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 20.2 software | ✓ | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | - |
| FPGA Add-on for Custom Platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 19.4 software | ✓ | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | - |
IMPORTANT
- FPGAs do not officially support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.4 OS. However, if you want to compile your FPGA designs on RHEL 7.4 OS, refer to Compiling Intel® oneAPI DPC++ FPGA Designs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)* 7.4 OS.
- Programs using the AC datatypes feature cannot run in the emulation flow on RHEL 7 systems. AC datatypes feature provides support for variable-precision integers and variable-precision floating-point data types. For more information, see Variable-Precision Integer and Floating-Point Support section in the Intel® oneAPI DPC++ FPGA Optimization Guide.
- The Ubuntu Server 18.04 with Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel is not supported, and there is no plan to support it for this release.
OS Deprecation Notice
| OS Version | Final Support Release | Notice of Change |
|---|---|---|
| SLES 15 SP1 | oneAPI 2021.3 | With the oneAPI 2021.4 release, it is no longer supported. Use SLES 15 SP3. |
| CentOS 8.x | oneAPI 2021.4 | It will no longer be supported in future releases. For more information, see the EOL notice from Red Hat. |
Software Patches
If you use oneAPI 2021.2 or older releases, the FPGA Add-on for Custom Platforms using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro software has a known issue. As a fix for this issue, download and install one of the following OS-specific patches:
Developer Tools
- GCC 7.4.0 (the default version for Ubuntu 18.04)
- Eclipse* developers:
- Eclipse 4.16
- Eclipse 4.17
- Microsoft Visual Studio* with "Desktop development with C++" workload installed. Supported versions:
- 2017 (versions 15.7 and newer)
- 2019 (versions 16.4 and newer)
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