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3.6.4. Emulating Your OpenCL Kernel
To emulate your kernel, perform the following steps:
For the hello_world design example, run bin/host -emulator. The -emulator argument informs the host program to select the Intel® FPGA Emulation Platform for OpenCL.
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Using AOCX: hello_world.aocx
Kernel initialization is complete.
Launching the kernel...
Thread #2: Hello from Intel FPGA OpenCL Compiler!
Kernel execution is complete.
- The emulator in Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Pro Edition is built with GCC 7.2.0 as part of the offline compiler. When executing the host program for an emulated OpenCL device, the version of libstdc++.so must be at least that of GCC 7.2.0. In other words, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable must ensure that the correct version of libstdc++.so is found.
If the correct version of libstdc++.so is not found, the call to clGetPlatformIDs function fails to load the FPGA emulator platform and returns CL_PLATFORM_NOT_FOUND_KHR (error code -1001). Depending on which version of libstdc++.so is found, the call to clGetPlatformIDs may succeed, but a later call to the clCreateContext function may fail with CL_DEVICE_NOT_AVAILABLE (error code -2).
If LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not point to a sufficiently new libstdc++.so, use the following syntax to invoke the host program:
env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path to sufficiently new libstdc++.so>:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH <host> [host arguments]
- To enable debugging of kernel code, optimizations are disabled by default for the FPGA emulator. This can lead to sub-optimal execution speed when emulating kernel code.
You can pass the -g0 flag to the aoc compile command to disable debugging and enable optimizations. This enables faster emulator execution.