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

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Date 4/22/2019
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12.1.1.6. RTL Reset and Clock Signals

Resets and clocks of RTL modules are connected to the same clock and reset drivers as the rest of the OpenCL™ pipeline.

Because of the common clock and reset drivers, an RTL module runs in the same clock domain as the OpenCL kernel. The module is reset only when the OpenCL kernel is first loaded onto the FPGA, either via Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ program utility or the clCreateProgramwithBinary host function. In particular, if the host restarts a kernel via successive clEnqueueNDRangeKernel or clEnqueueTask invocations, the associated RTL modules will not reset in between these restarts.

The following steps outline the process of setting the kernel clock frequency:

  1. The Intel® Quartus® Prime software's Fitter applies an aggressive constraint on the kernel clock.
  2. The Intel® Quartus® Prime software's Timing Analyzer performs static timing analysis to determine the frequency that the Fitter actually achieves.
  3. The phase-locked loop (PLL) that drives the kernel clock sets the frequency determined in Step 2 to be the kernel clock frequency.