Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Pro Edition: Best Practices Guide

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Date 12/13/2021
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9.1. Compilation Considerations

You can direct the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Offline Compiler to perform area usage analysis during kernel compilation.
  1. To review the estimated resource usage summary on-screen, compile your kernel by including the -report flag in your aoc command. To review kernel-specific area usage information, refer to the <your_kernel_filename>/reports/report.html file.
  2. If possible, perform floating-point computations by compiling your OpenCL kernel with the -fpc or -fp-relaxed option of the aoc command.

For more usage information about the -report, -fp-relaxed and -fpc options, refer to the Displaying Estimated Resource Usage Summary (-report), Relaxing Order of Floating-Point Operations (-fp-relaxed), and Reducing Floating-Point Operations (-fpc) sections of the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Programming Guide.

For more information about floating-point operations, refer to Optimize Floating-Point Operations.