How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013)

Re:How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013) by aprdm on Thursday April 16, 2015 @02:09PM (#9389689)

With OpenCL + FPGA what you do is basically instantiate a GPU architecture inside an FPGA and then execute the OpenCL algorithm into that.

I think that's cool but you aren't getting a better throughput than what you would get with a GPU.

The better solution would be to do your custom optimised control/data path for the FPGA architecture you are currently using (VHDL/Verilog).

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Re:How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013) by DrHoppenheimer on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @09:29PM (#9418182)

That's not how it works, actually. The compiler generates the dataflow directly in hardware.

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