fpga programming with an arm controller using opencl

[Thaddy]

I came across this:
https://github.com/Er1cZ/Deploying_CNN_on_FPGA_using_OpenCL/tree/master
and this:
https://github.com/Er1cZ/Deploying_CNN_on_FPGA_using_OpenCL/blob/master/GettingStartedTutorial.md

Which suggests you can set up opencl to program fpga's.

Since fpc has some opencl support and already supports arm embedded, would it be feasable to write a freepascal front end to program fpga's in that manner?

I have used fpga's in the past using verilog but that was too difficult for me so our team at the time eventually corrected and implemented my design (high performance real-time ticker processing at the bank)

It would be fun if we could get that to work, but at first glance the opencl bindings are not really complete.

The getting started tutorial describes a convolutional neural network.

There is a free toolchain available from Intel:

[MarkMLl]

I've done a bit of "playing around" in this area, with Altera Cyclone and Tang Nano chips of various vintages which meant having to scrape around for support software.

In terms of loading, I'm not sure that OpenCL is the way to go: OpenFPGALoader might be a better bet since it appears to be where the love is going.

https://trabucayre.github.io/openFPGALoader/compatibility/fpga.html

I'd add that latterly I've been trying to put my FPGA and embedded development environments into Docker containers, and a major sticking point is the extent to which security has to be bypassed to allow the container to access the programming hardware. If nothing else, I feel that this argues that it's desirable to minimise the number of different loder tools being used, and to take the amount of community support and understanding into consideration.

MarkMLl