Intel® FPGA RTE for OpenCL™ Pro Edition: Getting Started Guide

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Date 9/26/2022
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1.1. Prerequisites for the Intel® FPGA RTE for OpenCL™ Pro Edition

To install the Intel® FPGA RTE for OpenCL™ Pro Edition and deploy an application on an Intel® preferred accelerator board, your system must meet certain hardware, target platform, and software requirements.

Hardware Requirements

Accelerator boards requirements:

  • Acquire a Reference Platform from Intel® , or a Custom Platform from an Intel® preferred board vendor.

    For more information, refer to the Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL FPGA Platforms page on the Intel® FPGA website.

Deployment system requirements:

  • You must have administrator privileges on the development system to install the necessary packages and drivers.
  • The deployment system has at least 70 megabytes (MB) of free disk space for software installation.
  • For RAM requirements on the deployment system, follow these instructions:
    1. Visit the FPGA Software Download Center.
    2. Select the desired software product from the collection.
    3. Within the selected software product landing page, see System Requirements section. For additional memory recommendations, refer to the latest Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition release notes.
    Tip: Refer to board vendor's documentation on the recommended system storage size.

The host system must run on one of the following supported operating systems:

  • For a list of supported Windows and Linux operating systems, refer to the Operating System Support page on the Intel® FPGA website.
  • Linux versions as supported on Intel® SoC FPGA products on the Arm* ARMv7-A architecture.
    Important:

    For x86_64 Linux systems, install the Linux OS kernel source and headers (for example, kernel-devel.x86_64 and kernel-headers.x86_64), and the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) (gcc.x86_64).

    To install the Linux kernel source or header package, invoke the yum install <kernel_package_name> command.

    You must have administrator privileges on the host system to install the necessary packages and drivers.

Software Prerequisites

Develop your host application using one of the following RTE-compatible C compiler or software development environment:

  • For Windows systems, use Microsoft Visual Studio Professional and Microsoft Visual C++ versions 2015 or later.
  • For Linux systems, use Eclipse 2019-12 or later and GCC 7.2.0. For more information about GCC, refer to GCC Requirement.
  • For SoC applications, use the GCC cross-compiler available with the Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (EDS).

Linux systems require the Perl command version 5 or later. Include the path to the Perl command in your PATH system environment variable setting.

For Intel® FPGA RTE for OpenCL™ packages that include Intel Code Builder, Intel Code Builder requires Java SE version 1.8.71 or later to run.