FAQ using DE5 NET OpenCL BSP
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If you encountered the error "failed to scan for the PCI device" shown as the following picture when using the DE5-NET OpenCL BSP windows version,
please excute the steps below to double check:
- Please double check if the PCIe device is detected or not under Device Manager.
- If not, please uninstall the PCIe driver you installed before, and excute "aocl install" to see if the drive can be installed properly or not.
- Manually download the top.sof file (for example, the top.sof file is located in the DE5NET_openCL_BSP_16.0\DE5NET_openCL_BSP_16.0\test folder if you are using DE5-NET OpenCL BSP 16.0.
- Restart the PC after the top.sof file is downloaded successfully.
- After restarting the PC, please make sure the PC can detect the PCIe device under Device Manager, and then excute "aocl diagnose".
- If it still can not work by following the steps above, please have a try to install the PCIe driver manually. Right click PCIe device location under Device Manager and browse to the de5net\windows64\driver\acl_boards.inf to install the driver.