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8.4. Emulating Your OpenCL Kernel
To emulate your kernel, perform the following steps:
- Required: Modify your host program to select the emulator OpenCL platform.
Select the emulation OpenCL platform in your host program by selecting platform with the following name:
Intel(R) FPGA Emulation Platform for OpenCL(TM)
- Required: Build a host application and link your host application to the Khronos ICD Loader Library. For more information, see Linking Your Host Application to the Khronos ICD Loader Library.
- If necessary, move the <your_kernel_filename>.aocx file to a location where the host can find it easily, preferably the current working directory.
- To run the host application for emulation:
- For Windows:
- Define the number of emulated devices by invoking the set CL_CONFIG_CPU_EMULATE_DEVICES=<number_of_devices> command.
- Run the host application.
- Invoke set CL_CONFIG_CPU_EMULATE_DEVICES= to unset the variable.
- For Linux, invoke the env CL_CONFIG_CPU_EMULATE_DEVICES=<number_of_devices> <host_application_filename> command.
This command specifies the number of identical emulation devices that the Emulator needs to provide.Remember: The emulation OpenCL platform (Intel(R) FPGA Emulation Platform for OpenCL(TM)) does not provide access to physical boards. Only the emulated devices are available.Tip: If you want to use only one emulator device, you do not need to set the CL_CONFIG_CPU_EMULATE_DEVICES environment variable. - For Windows:
- If you change your host or kernel program and you want to test it, only recompile the modified host or kernel program and then rerun emulation.
- 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.