Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition: Custom Platform Toolkit User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit User Guide 2. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit Reference Material
1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit User Guide x
1.1. Prerequisites for the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit 1.2. Overview of the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform 1.3. Custom Platform Automigration for Forward Compatibility 1.4. Creating an Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform 1.5. Applying for the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Preferred Board Status 1.6. Shipping Recommendations 1.7. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Design Revision History
1.2. Overview of the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform x
1.2.1. Directories and Files in an Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform 1.2.2. Recommendations for Structuring the Custom Platform Directory
1.3. Custom Platform Automigration for Forward Compatibility x
1.3.1. Customizing Automigration
1.4. Creating an Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform x
1.4.1. Designing the Board Hardware 1.4.2. Creating the Board XML Files 1.4.3. Creating the MMD Library 1.4.4. Setting Up the FPGA Client Driver 1.4.5. Providing Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Utilities Support 1.4.6. Testing the Hardware Design
1.4.1. Designing the Board Hardware x
1.4.1.1. Creating the Board Platform Designer (Standard) System 1.4.1.2. Establishing Guaranteed Timing Flow
1.4.1.1. Creating the Board Platform Designer (Standard) System x
1.4.1.1.1. General Quality of Results Considerations for the Exported Board Partition
1.4.2. Creating the Board XML Files x
1.4.2.1. Creating the board_env.xml File 1.4.2.2. Creating the board_spec.xml File
1.4.2.1. Creating the board_env.xml File x
1.4.2.1.1. Testing the board_env.xml File
1.4.3. Creating the MMD Library x
1.4.3.1. Kernel Power-up State
2. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit Reference Material x
2.1. The Board Platform Designer (Standard) Subsystem 2.2. XML Elements, Attributes, and Parameters in the board_spec.xml File 2.3. MMD API Descriptions 2.4. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit Reference Manual Revision History
2.1. The Board Platform Designer (Standard) Subsystem x
2.1.1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition-Specific Platform Designer (Standard) System Components
2.1.1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition-Specific Platform Designer (Standard) System Components x
2.1.1.1. OpenCL Kernel Clock Generator 2.1.1.2. OpenCL Kernel Interface 2.1.1.3. OpenCL Memory Bank Divider
2.2. XML Elements, Attributes, and Parameters in the board_spec.xml File x
2.2.1. board 2.2.2. device 2.2.3. global_mem 2.2.4. host 2.2.5. channels 2.2.6. interfaces 2.2.7. interface 2.2.8. compile
2.3. MMD API Descriptions x
2.3.1. aocl_mmd_get_offline_info 2.3.2. aocl_mmd_get_info 2.3.3. aocl_mmd_open 2.3.4. aocl_mmd_close 2.3.5. aocl_mmd_read 2.3.6. aocl_mmd_write 2.3.7. aocl_mmd_copy 2.3.8. aocl_mmd_set_interrupt_handler 2.3.9. aocl_mmd_set_status_handler 2.3.10. aocl_mmd_yield 2.3.11. aocl_mmd_shared_mem_alloc 2.3.12. aocl_mmd_shared_mem_free 2.3.13. aocl_mmd_reprogram 2.3.14. aocl_mmd_hostchannel_create 2.3.15. aocl_mmd_hostchannel_destroy 2.3.16. aocl_mmd_hostchannel_get_buffer 2.3.17. aocl_mmd_hostchannel_ack_buffer
2.3.13. aocl_mmd_reprogram x
2.3.13.1. Reprogram Support
1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit User Guide
2. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit Reference Material

1.4.1. Designing the Board Hardware

To design an accelerator board for use with the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition, you must create all the board and system components, and the files that describe your hardware design to the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Offline Compiler.

Each board variant in the Custom Platform consists of an Intel® Quartus® Prime project, and a board_spec.xml XML file that describes the system to the offline compiler. The board_spec.xml file describes the interfaces necessary to connect to the kernel. The offline compiler generates a custom circuit based on the data from the board_spec.xml file. Then it incorporates the OpenCL kernel into the Platform Designer (Standard) system you create for all nonkernel logic.

You must preserve the design of all nonkernel logic. You can preserve your design in the Intel® Quartus® Prime software via one of the following methods:

  • Create a design partition containing all nonkernel logic under a single HDL hierarchy and then export the partition. For example, you may create and export a board.qsys Platform Designer (Standard) subsystem (see figure below). The top-level system.qsys Platform Designer (Standard) system can then instantiate this exported board Platform Designer (Standard) subsystem.
  • Implement the Configuration via Protocol (CvP) configuration scheme, which preserves all logic outside a design partition. In this case, you only need to create a partition around the kernel logic. You may place all nonkernel logic into a single top-level Platform Designer (Standard) system file (for example, system.qsys).

You must design all the components and the board_spec.xml file that describe the system to the SDK.

Figure 1. Example System Hierarchy with a Board Platform Designer (Standard) Subsystem


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