EDN

Implementing the OpenCL standard on an FPGA

The initial era of programmable technologies contained two different extremes of programmability. One extreme was the single-core CPU and DSP units. These were programmable using software consisting ...
Electronic Design

OpenCL FPGA SDK Arrives

Khronos Group's OpenCL has become very popular with GPU platforms and it translates well to CPUs as well. About a year ago Altera talked about their work in bringing OpenCL applications to FPGAs (see ...
Electronic Design

How To Put OpenCL Into An FPGA

Altera is looking to put OpenCL (Open Computing Language) into FPGA hardware. This could give GPUs a run for the money when it comes to accelerating parallel processing. It could also increase ...
EDN

Altera SDK for OpenCL is First in Industry to Achieve Khronos Conformance for FPGAs

Achieving conformance allows Altera to provide a validated cross-platform programming environment that can be used to dramatically accelerate algorithms at significantly lower power versus alternative ...
The Next Platform

OpenCL Opens Doors to Deep Learning Training on FPGA

Hardware and device makers are in a mad dash to create or acquire the perfect chip for performing deep learning training and inference. While we have yet to see anything that can handle both parts of ...
Digi Times

Altera announces FPGA support for OpenCL

Altera has announced a software development kit (SDK) for OpenCL (Open Computing Language), for use with its FPGA, which combines the parallel architecture of an FPGA with the OpenCL parallel ...
Forbes

For Intel, Adding Altera, FPGA Hardware Is Easy: Next Comes Supporting Software

With last week's big Altera acquisition Intel made an expensive bet on a future of data center hardware that uses significantly more customized designs than today's monolithic racks of commodity x86 ...
The Next Platform

Altera Points To The FPGA Writing On The Wall

For those who marveled at the $16.7 billion deal Intel made to acquire field programmable gate array maker, Altera, an equal number raised eyebrows at the estimate given by Intel CEO to announce the ...