A Look at Altera’s OpenCL SDK for FPGAs

October 9, 2013 opencl, sdk, fpga Altera Corporation

AnandTech takes a look at Altera’s OpenCL SDK for their FPGA. Altera introduced a private beta for OpenCL on FPGAs late last year and the SDK has now been made public. Altera’s implementation is built on top of OpenCL 1.0 but offers custom extensions to tap into the unique features of FPGAs.