Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition: Custom Platform Toolkit User Guide

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1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit User Guide 2. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit Reference Material
1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit User Guide x
1.1. Prerequisites for the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit 1.2. Overview of the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform 1.3. Custom Platform Automigration for Forward Compatibility 1.4. Creating an Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform 1.5. Applying for the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Preferred Board Status 1.6. Shipping Recommendations 1.7. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Design Revision History
1.2. Overview of the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform x
1.2.1. Directories and Files in an Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform 1.2.2. Recommendations for Structuring the Custom Platform Directory
1.3. Custom Platform Automigration for Forward Compatibility x
1.3.1. Customizing Automigration
1.4. Creating an Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform x
1.4.1. Designing the Board Hardware 1.4.2. Creating the Board XML Files 1.4.3. Creating the MMD Library 1.4.4. Setting Up the FPGA Client Driver Enumerating the Custom Platform FCD on Windows Enumerating the Custom Platform FCD on Linux 1.4.5. Providing Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Utilities Support 1.4.6. Testing the Hardware Design
1.4.1. Designing the Board Hardware x
1.4.1.1. Creating the Board Platform Designer (Standard) System 1.4.1.2. Establishing Guaranteed Timing Flow
1.4.1.1. Creating the Board Platform Designer (Standard) System x
1.4.1.1.1. General Quality of Results Considerations for the Exported Board Partition
1.4.2. Creating the Board XML Files x
1.4.2.1. Creating the board_env.xml File 1.4.2.2. Creating the board_spec.xml File
1.4.2.1. Creating the board_env.xml File x
1.4.2.1.1. Testing the board_env.xml File
1.4.3. Creating the MMD Library x
1.4.3.1. Kernel Power-up State
2. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit Reference Material x
2.1. The Board Platform Designer (Standard) Subsystem 2.2. XML Elements, Attributes, and Parameters in the board_spec.xml File 2.3. MMD API Descriptions 2.4. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit Reference Manual Revision History
2.1. The Board Platform Designer (Standard) Subsystem x
2.1.1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition-Specific Platform Designer (Standard) System Components
2.1.1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition-Specific Platform Designer (Standard) System Components x
2.1.1.1. OpenCL Kernel Clock Generator 2.1.1.2. OpenCL Kernel Interface 2.1.1.3. OpenCL Memory Bank Divider
2.2. XML Elements, Attributes, and Parameters in the board_spec.xml File x
2.2.1. board 2.2.2. device 2.2.3. global_mem 2.2.4. host 2.2.5. channels 2.2.6. interfaces 2.2.7. interface 2.2.8. compile
2.3. MMD API Descriptions x
2.3.1. aocl_mmd_get_offline_info 2.3.2. aocl_mmd_get_info 2.3.3. aocl_mmd_open 2.3.4. aocl_mmd_close 2.3.5. aocl_mmd_read 2.3.6. aocl_mmd_write 2.3.7. aocl_mmd_copy 2.3.8. aocl_mmd_set_interrupt_handler 2.3.9. aocl_mmd_set_status_handler 2.3.10. aocl_mmd_yield 2.3.11. aocl_mmd_shared_mem_alloc 2.3.12. aocl_mmd_shared_mem_free 2.3.13. aocl_mmd_reprogram 2.3.14. aocl_mmd_hostchannel_create 2.3.15. aocl_mmd_hostchannel_destroy 2.3.16. aocl_mmd_hostchannel_get_buffer 2.3.17. aocl_mmd_hostchannel_ack_buffer
2.3.13. aocl_mmd_reprogram x
2.3.13.1. Reprogram Support
1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit User Guide
2. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit Reference Material

1.4.4. Setting Up the FPGA Client Driver

The Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition supports the FPGA Client Driver custom extension. The FPGA Client Driver (FCD) allows the SDK to automatically find and load the Custom Platform libraries at host run time.
Attention: To allow SDK users to use FCD, you must remove the MMD library from the linklibs element in the board_env.xml file.

Enumerating the Custom Platform FCD on Windows

Specify the Custom Platform libraries in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Altera\OpenCL\Boards. Specify the value name to be the path to the library, and specify the data to be a DWORD that is set to 0.

For example:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Altera\OpenCL\Boards] "c:\board_vendor a\my_board_mmd.dll"=dword:00000000

To enumerate Custom Platform FCDs on Windows, the FCD Loader scans the value in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Altera\OpenCL\Boards. For each value in this key, the name specifies the path to a DLL and the data is a dword. If the dword data is 0, the Installable Client Driver (ICD) Loader attempts to open the corresponding DLL. If the DLL is an MMD library, then the SDK attempts to open any board that is associated with that library.

In this case, the FCD opens the library c:\board_vendor a\my_board_mmd.dll.

If the registry key specifies multiple libraries, the Loader loads the libraries in the order that they appear in the key. If there is an order dependency between the libraries available with your Custom Platform, ensure that you list the libraries accordingly in the registry key.

Enumerating the Custom Platform FCD on Linux

Enter the absolute paths of Custom Platform libraries in a .fcd file (formerly, a .acd file). Store the .fcd file in the /opt/Intel/OpenCL/Boards/ directory.

To enumerate Custom Platform FCDs on Linux, the FCD Loader scans the files with the extension .fcd in the path /opt/Intel/OpenCL/Boards/. The FCD Loader opens each .fcd file in this path as a text file. Each .fcd file should contain the absolute path to every library in the Custom Platform, one library per line. The ICD Loader attempts to open each library. If the library is an MMD library, then the SDK attempts to open any board that is associated with that library.

For example, consider the file /opt/Intel/OpenCL/Boards/PlatformA.fcd. If it contains the line /opt/PlatformA/libPlatformA_mmd.so, the FCD Loader loads the library /opt/PlatformA/libPlatformA_mmd.so.

If the .fcd file specifies multiple libraries, the Loader loads the libraries in the order that they appear in the file. If there is an order dependency between the libraries available with your Custom Platform, ensure that you list the libraries accordingly in the .fcd file.

Starting in the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ version 16.1, FCD allows the SDK users to load multiple heterogeneous boards from different Custom Platforms and use them together in a single host application. However, this feature has limited support for legacy Custom Platforms that are released prior to 16.1.

For more information on how SDK users link their host applications to the ICD and FCD, refer to the Linking Your Host Application to the Khronos ICD Loader Library section in the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Programming Guide.

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