Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition: Programming Guide

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Date 4/22/2019
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5.4.1. Overview of the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Channels Extension

The Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ channels extension allows kernels to communicate directly with each other through FIFO buffers.

Implementation of channels decouples data movement between concurrently executing kernels from the host processor.

Figure 6. Overview of Channels Implementation