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

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Date 4/22/2019
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6.6.5. Termination of the Runtime Environment and Error Recovery

In the event that the host application terminates unexpectedly, you must restart the runtime environment and reprogram the FPGA.

The runtime environment is a library that is compiled as part of the host application. When the host application terminates, the runtime environment will also terminate along with any tracking activity that it performs. If you restart the host application, a new runtime environment and its associated tracking activities will reinitialize. The initialization functions reset the kernel's hardware state.

In same cases, unexpected termination of the host application causes the configuration of certain hardware (for example, PCIe® hard IP) to be incomplete. To restore the configuration of these hardware, the host needs to reprogram the FPGA.

If you use a Custom Platform that implements customized hardware blocks, be aware that restarting the host application and resetting these blocks might have design implications:

  • When the host application calls the clGetPlatformIDs function, all kernels and channels will be reset for all available devices.
  • When the host application calls the clGetPlatformIDs function, it resets FIFO buffers and channels as it resets the device.
  • The host application initializes memory buffers via the clCreateBuffer and clEnqueueWriteBuffer function calls. You cannot access the contents of buffers from a previous host execution within a new host execution.