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

ID 683398
Date 9/24/2018
Public
Document Table of Contents

2.1.1. Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition-Specific Platform Designer (Standard) System Components

The Platform Designer (Standard) system for your board logic includes components specific to the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition that are necessary for implementing features that instantiate host communication and global memory interfaces.

The board Platform Designer (Standard) system must export an Avalon®-MM master for controlling OpenCL kernels. It must also export one or more Avalon-MM slave ports that the kernels use as global memory interfaces. The INTELFPGAOCLSDKROOT/ip/board directory of the SDK includes a library that contains SDK-specific Platform Designer (Standard) system components, where INTELFPGAOCLSDKROOT points to the location of the SDK installation. These components are necessary for implementing features such as Avalon-MM interfaces, organizing programmable banks, cache snooping, and supporting Altera's guaranteed timing closures.