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The Altera OpenCL SDK empowers software programmers by unlocking FPGA acceleration technology with a full software-like compile-and-execute development flow augmented with a range of productivity tools for debugging and profiling. OpenCL is a widely used, Cbased, open standard heterogeneous programming model. Together with the Altera OpenCL SDK programmers can realize in-system hardware implementations that are competitive with manually written HDL, with no need for tool specific attributes or semantics. Without any FPGA knowledge, software programmers can design, execute, analyze, and optimize their applications on FPGAs, and ultimately own the FPGA acceleration of real world systemlevel problems.
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Singh, D., Yiannacouras, P. (2016). OpenCL. In: Koch, D., Hannig, F., Ziener, D. (eds) FPGAs for Software Programmers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26408-0_6
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