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

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Date 6/21/2022
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10.4. Configuring a Session

A configuration is a set of analysis inputs such as assigned variables, number of iterations, global sizes and local sizes of a specific kernel, and so on. You can create a separate configuration for each set of inputs that you want to analyze.

You can configure a session by right-clicking the session in the Code Builder Session Explorer and selecting Session Options. Alternatively, you can also open the Session Settings dialog box by selecting Code-Builder > OpenCL Kernel Development > Session Options.

The Session Settings dialog box allows you to configure:

  • Device options such as target machine, OpenCL platform, and OpenCL device.
  • Build options such as offline compiler flags and build architecture.
  • Build artifacts such as .aocx and .aoco files, and static reports.
  • General options such as job architecture and network settings.

In the Device Options tab, ensure to select Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ in the OpenCL platform drop-down list.

Under the Build Options tab, in the OpenCL Build Options section, enter the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Offline Compiler flags manually.

Attention: If your kernel has channels, you must configure workflows. A workflow is a set of kernels, which can be executed sequentially. Workflow can be used to execute a workload with channels where you connect the input of one kernel with the output of the previous kernel (by assigning the same variable for both kernels).

For more information about configuring a session and variable management, refer to the Developer Guide for Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications.