Intel® FPGA Add-on for oneAPI Base Toolkit

Use Reconfigurable Hardware to Accelerate Data-Centric Workloads

Accelerate Your Data-Centric Workloads with FPGAs

FPGA is an acronym for field programmable gate array. An FPGA is an integrated circuit whose electrical functionality can be changed, even after the device is shipped to customers in the field. FPGAs offer incredible flexibility and cost efficiency with circuitry that can be reprogrammed for different functionalities. The Intel® FPGA Add-on for oneAPI Base Toolkit is a specialized component for programming such reconfigurable FPGA devices.

Benefits

  • Accelerate your FPGA workloads effortlessly.
  • Reduce FPGA development time by weeks.
  • Implement complex hardware designs with a rich DPC++ language support (SYCL* + modern C++).
  • Refine your designs with quick iterative development workflows.
  • Analyze design performance graphically with Intel® VTune™ Profiler.
  • Generate register-transfer level (RTL) bitstream with the included license-free Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software.

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Get the Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit with the Intel FPGA Add-on for oneAPI Base Toolkit to design, develop, and deploy FPGA accelerators on your local systems.

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FPGA Application Development Stages

Development for Intel® FPGAs is typically done in three stages. The first two can be completed with the Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler (part of the Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit). The third requires the Intel FPGA Add-On for oneAPI Base Toolkit.

Stage 1: Emulation. Test your design for functional correctness by compiling to the CPU.

 

Stage 2: HTML Reports Generation. Get guidance on making FPGA-specific design optimizations. Uncover loop bottlenecks, view area and memory utilization, and see how your design has been pipelined.

 

Note We recommend that you spend the most time iterating in Stages 1 and 2. When area and performance requirements are met, you are ready for Stage 3.

Stage 3: Hardware Bitstream Generation. In this stage, a bitstream is compiled that can be executed on your target FPGA platform. (Bitstream is a file describing how various FPGA components should be connected to achieve the desired behavior.)

 

(Optional) Stage 4: Runtime Analysis. Use the Intel® VTune™ Profiler to analyze design performance at runtime, including execution events happening on both the CPU and FPGA over time. (The Intel VTune Profiler is included as part of the Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit.)

Features

Target FPGAs with a New Development Flow
The oneAPI programming language, DPC++, removes the need for boilerplate code that was necessary with OpenCL™ code. This language allows you to target FPGAs with a unified, single-source programming model and familiar programming language C++.

 

Create Future-Proof Designs
FPGAs are quickly adaptable to new and evolving standards or requirements. If your specification changes, Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit products, including the FPGA add-on, allow you to update your algorithm and quickly reconfigure the spatial architecture.

Differentiate Your Application with I/O Flexibility
FPGAs come with high-speed I/O pins, giving you flexibility in the type of data source your application will use. This allows FPGAs to perform inline acceleration and data processing with deterministic latency and without consuming CPU resources.

 

Build Your Application for Your Target Platform
You can easily modify your applications to run on custom platforms and board support packages (BSPs) straight from your IDE.

Key Applications

Database Acceleration
Data scientists can leverage FPGA prowess with hashing and pattern matching, which is an attribute of their flexible data paths. These inline acceleration capabilities help speed up relational database functions such as indexing, lookups, and filtering.

 

Compression, Encryption, and Packet Processing
Applications that require bit-level operations and irregular parallelism can take advantage of FPGA reprogrammable logic elements for efficient implementation.

 

High-Performance Computing
Scientific computation techniques for risk analysis, such as Monte Carlo simulations, can be greatly sped up with the inherent capability of an FPGA for fine-grained parallel processing and deep pipelining.

 

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Product and Performance Information

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The FPGA Add-On is intended to be used in conjunction with the Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler, which is part of the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit. Installation of both the base toolkit and this add-on are required to work through the compile stage of the FPGA design flow.

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