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8 years ago Hello, From what I've read on Altera's site, the compilation of OpenCL kernels for FPGA is only done in offline mode using their separate compiler. That compiler produces OpenCL binary which can further be provided to the standard clCreateProgramWithBinary() function. So, the opencl4py will probably work if Altera registers their OpenCL driver within the system or provides standard shared library (libOpenCL.so / OpenCL.dll).
You can check if the Altera's device is listed in the system OpenCL devices with the code:
import opencl4py as cl
print(cl.Platforms().dump_devices())
and if it is listed, you can later create program with the binary: prg = ctx.create_program(open("test.aocx", "rb").read(), binary=True) where ctx is the corresponding OpenCL context.
Hello, I used to use OpenCL with FPGA, the OpenCL project has two code, the kernel and the host, the host is written in C++ but I want to use it with python, as Im new here, can I use opencl4py for that? take in account that the kernel code I compile it with SDK Altera OpenCL compiler to get the file which I use it to configure the FPGA to have Kernel. becuse I see that you writte the kernel code with host code. Thank you in advance