Developer Guide

Intel oneAPI FPGA Handbook

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Date 2/07/2024
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Global Memory Accesses Optimization

The Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler uses SDRAM as global memory. By default, the compiler configures global memory in a burst-interleaved configuration. The Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler interleaves global memory across each of the external memory banks.

In most circumstances, the default burst-interleaved configuration leads to the best load balancing between memory banks. However, in some cases, you might want to partition the banks manually as two non-interleaved (and contiguous) memory regions to achieve better load balancing.

The following figure illustrates the difference in memory mapping patterns between burst-interleaved and non-interleaved memory partitions:

Global Memory Partitions