FPGA Startup and Configuration Guide

OPAE Environment Setup

$ source /opt/inteldevstack/init_env_user.sh
$ export OPAE_HOME=/opt/opae/1.1.2
$ export PATH=$OPAE_HOME/bin:$PATH
$ export C_INCLUDE_PATH=$OPAE_HOME/include:$C_INCLUDE_PATH
$ export LIBRARY_PATH=$OPAE_HOME/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$OPAE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

OPAE Build

The FPGA has to following configuration options:

DEVICE_FAMILY=arria10 | stratix10
NUM_CORES=#n

Command line:

$ cd hw/syn/altera/opae
$ PREFIX=test1 TARGET=fpga NUM_CORES=4 make

A new folder (ex: test1_xxx_4c) will be created and the build will start and take ~30-480 min to complete. Setting TARGET=ase will build the project for simulation using Intel ASE.

OPAE Build Configuration

The hardware configuration file /hw/rtl/VX_config.vh defines all the hardware parameters that can be modified when build the processor.For example, have the following parameters that can be configured:

NUM_WARPS: Number of warps per cores
NUM_THREADS: Number of threads per warps
PERF_ENABLE: enable the use of all profile counters

You configure the syntesis build from the command line:

$ CONFIGS="-DPERF_ENABLE -DNUM_THREADS=8" make

OPAE Build Progress

You could check the last 10 lines in the build log for possible errors until build completion.

$ tail -n 10 <build_dir>/build.log

Check if the build is still running by looking for quartus_sh, quartus_syn, or quartus_fit programs.

$ ps -u <username>

If the build fails and you need to restart it, clean up the build folder using the following command:

$ make clean

The file vortex_afu.gbs should exist when the build is done:

$ ls -lsa <build_dir>/synth/vortex_afu.gbs

Signing the bitstream and Programming the FPGA

$ cd <build_dir>
$ PACSign PR -t UPDATE -H openssl_manager -i vortex_afu.gbs -o vortex_afu_unsigned_ssl.gbs
$ fpgasupdate vortex_afu_unsigned_ssl.gbs

FPGA sample test running OpenCL sgemm kernel

Run the following from the Vortex root directory

$ TARGET=fpga ./ci/blackbox.sh --driver=opae --app=sgemm --args="-n128"

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