Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™: Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Porting Guide

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1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Porting Guide 2. Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Design Architecture 3. Developing Your Intel® Stratix® 10 Custom Platform 4. Document Revision History
1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Porting Guide x
1.1. Introduction to Intel® Reference Platform 1.2. Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform: Prerequisites 1.3. Features of the Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform 1.4. Contents of the Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform
1.3. Features of the Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform x
1.3.1. Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Board Variants
2. Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Design Architecture x
2.1. Host-to- Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA Communication over PCIe® 2.2. DDR4 as Global Memory for OpenCL Applications 2.3. Host Connection to OpenCL Kernels 2.4. Partial Reconfiguration 2.5. Other Components in the Reference Design 2.6. Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA System Design 2.7. Guaranteed Timing Closure of the Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Design 2.8. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Compilation Flows 2.9. Addition of Timing Constraints 2.10. Connection of the Intel® Reference Platform to the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ 2.11. Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA Programming Flow 2.12. Implementation of Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Utilities 2.13. Considerations in Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Implementation
2.1. Host-to- Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA Communication over PCIe® x
2.1.1. Instantiation of Intel® Stratix® 10 PCIe* Hard IP with Direct Memory Access 2.1.2. Device Identification Registers for Intel® Stratix® 10 PCIe Hard IP 2.1.3. Instantiation of the version_id Component 2.1.4. Board Support Package Software Layer 2.1.5. Direct Memory Access 2.1.6. Message Signaled Interrupt 2.1.7. Instantiation of board_cade_id_0 Component – JTAG Cable Autodetect Feature
2.1.4. Board Support Package Software Layer x
2.1.4.1. Common Hardware Constants in Software Headers Files 2.1.4.2. PCIe Kernel Driver 2.1.4.3. Host-to-Device MMD Software Implementation
2.1.5. Direct Memory Access x
2.1.5.1. Implementing a DMA Transfer
2.2. DDR4 as Global Memory for OpenCL Applications x
2.2.1. DDR4 IP Instantiation 2.2.2. DDR4 Connection to PCIe Host 2.2.3. DDR4 Connection to the OpenCL Kernel
2.4. Partial Reconfiguration x
2.4.1. Constant Address Bridge (constant_address_bridge)
2.6. Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA System Design x
2.6.1. Clocks 2.6.2. Resets 2.6.3. Floorplan 2.6.4. Global Routing 2.6.5. Pipelining 2.6.6. DDR4 Calibration
2.7. Guaranteed Timing Closure of the Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Design x
2.7.1. Supply the Kernel Clock 2.7.2. Guarantee Kernel Clock Timing 2.7.3. Provide a Timing-Closed Post-Fit Netlist
2.8. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Compilation Flows x
2.8.1. Compile Flow 2.8.2. Platform Designer System Generation 2.8.3. QAR/QDB File Generation
2.10. Connection of the Intel® Reference Platform to the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ x
2.10.1. Describe the Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform to the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ 2.10.2. Describe the Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Hardware to the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™
2.12. Implementation of Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Utilities x
2.12.1. aocl install 2.12.2. aocl uninstall 2.12.3. aocl program 2.12.4. aocl flash 2.12.5. aocl diagnose 2.12.6. aocl list-devices
3. Developing Your Intel® Stratix® 10 Custom Platform x
3.1. Initializing Your Intel® Stratix® 10 Custom Platform 3.2. Modifying the Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Design 3.3. Integrating Your Intel® Stratix® 10 Custom Platform with the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ 3.4. Setting up the Intel® Stratix® 10 Custom Platform Software Development Environment 3.5. Establishing Intel® Stratix® 10 Custom Platform Host Communication 3.6. Branding Your Intel® Stratix® 10 Custom Platform 3.7. Changing the Device Part Number 3.8. Connecting the Memory in the Intel® Stratix® 10 Custom Platform 3.9. Modifying the Kernel PLL Reference Clock 3.10. Integrating an OpenCL Kernel in Your Intel® Stratix® 10 Custom Platform 3.11. Troubleshooting Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Porting Issues
1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Porting Guide
2. Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform Design Architecture
3. Developing Your Intel® Stratix® 10 Custom Platform
4. Document Revision History

2.2.1. DDR4 IP Instantiation

The Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit Reference Platform uses one DDR4 Controller IP to communicate with the physical memory.
Table 9.  DDR4 SDRAM Controller IP Configuration Highlights
Configuration Setting Description
Timing Parameters As per the computing card's data specifications.
Avalon Width Power of 2
EMIF S10 IP > Memory > DQ Width Currently, OpenCL™ does not support non-power-of-2 bus widths. As a result, the s10_ref Reference Platform uses the option that forces the DDR4 controller to power of 2. Use the additional pins of this x72 core for error checking between the memory controller and the physical module.
Byte Enable Support
EMIF S10 IP > Memory > Data Mask Enabled. Check the Data Mask option in the Memory tab of the EMIF Intel® Stratix® 10 IP.

Byte enable support is necessary in the core because the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ requires byte-level granularity to all memories.

Performance
EMIF S10 IP > Controller > Enable Reordering Enabling the reordering of DDR4 memory accesses and a deeper command queue look-ahead depth might provide increased bandwidth for some OpenCL kernels. For a target application, adjust these and other parameters as necessary.
Note: Increasing the command queue look-ahead depth allows the DDR4 memory controller to reorder more memory accesses to increase efficiency, which improves overall memory throughput.
Debug Disabled for production.
Important: Follow limitations, such as no support for non-power of two bus widths and need for byte-level granularity, while designing your custom boards. Develop schematics to achieve byte-granularity by the external memory components used. Failure to do so may result in poor performance of your OpenCL applications.
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