Intel® FPGA AI Suite: Getting Started Guide

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1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide 2. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Components 3. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Installation Overview 4. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools 5. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-Based Design Example Prerequisites 6. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Quick Start Tutorial A. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Archives B. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Document Revision History
3. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Installation Overview x
3.1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Directory Structure
4. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools x
4.1. Supported FPGA Families 4.2. Operating System Prerequisites 4.3. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite With System Package Management Tools 4.4. Installing OpenVINO™ Toolkit 4.5. Installing Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software 4.6. Setting Required Environment Variables 4.7. Installing Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) 4.8. Finalizing Your Intel® FPGA AI Suite Installation
4.3. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite With System Package Management Tools x
4.3.1. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite Into an Alternative Location
5. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-Based Design Example Prerequisites x
5.1. PCIe-based Design Example Hardware Prerequisites 5.2. PCIe-based Design Example Operating System Prerequisites 5.3. PCIe-based Design Example Software Prerequisites
5.3. PCIe-based Design Example Software Prerequisites x
5.3.1. Additional Software Prerequisites for the PCIe-based Design Example for Intel Agilex® 7 Devices 5.3.2. Additional Software Prerequisites for the PCIe-Based Design Example for Intel® Arria® 10 Devices
6. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Quick Start Tutorial x
6.1. Creating a Working Directory 6.2. Preparing OpenVINO™ Model Zoo 6.3. Preparing a Model 6.4. Running the Graph Compiler 6.5. Preparing an Image Set 6.6. Programming the FPGA Device 6.7. Performing Inference on the PCIe-Based Example Design 6.8. Building an FPGA Bitstream for the PCIe Example Design 6.9. Building the Example FPGA Bitstreams 6.10. Preparing a ResNet50 v1 Model 6.11. Performing Inference on the Inflated 3D (I3D) Graph 6.12. Performing Inference on YOLOv3 and Calculating Accuracy Metrics
6.12. Performing Inference on YOLOv3 and Calculating Accuracy Metrics x
6.12.1. Preparing a YOLOv3 Model 6.12.2. Preparing a COCO Validation Dataset and Annotations 6.12.3. Inference on YOLOv3 and Calculating Accuracy Scores
1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide
2. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Components
3. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Installation Overview
4. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools
5. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-Based Design Example Prerequisites
6. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Quick Start Tutorial
A. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Archives
B. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Document Revision History

B. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Document Revision History

Document Version Intel® FPGA AI SuiteVersion Changes
2024.02.12 2023.3.1
  • Updated for additional Intel Agilex® 7 support.
2024.02.02 2023.3
  • Corrected OpenVINO™ version in graphic in " Intel® FPGA AI Suite Installation Overview".
2023.12.01 2023.3
  • Added instructions for a WSL 2 environment to "Building an FPGA Bitstream for the PCIe Example Design".
2023.09.06 2023.2.1
  • Updated supported OpenVINO™ version to 2022.3.1 LTS.
  • Updated installation instructions for Ubuntu 18 operating systems.
2023.07.17 2023.2
  • Corrected instructions in "Installing OpenVINO™ Toolkit".
2023.07.03 2023.2
  • Added "Installing Intel® FPGA AI Suite on Windows* Subsystem for Linux".
  • Revised " OpenVINO™ Toolkit" for OpenVINO™ 2022.3 LTS.
  • Renamed "Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite " to " Intel® FPGA AI Suite Installation Overview" to better reflect the contents of that section.
  • Updated supported OpenVINO™ version to 2022.3 LTS.
  • Updated OpenVINO™ installation paths to /opt/intel/openvino_2023.
  • Updated Intel® FPGA AI Suite installation paths to /opt/intel/fpga_ai_suite_2023.2.
  • Changed occurrences of tools/downloader/downloader.py to omz_downloader.
  • Changed occurrences of tools/downloader/converter.py to omz_converter.
2023.04.05 2023.1
  • Added "Performing Inference on the i3d Graph".
  • Renamed thedlac command. The Intel® FPGA AI Suite compiler command is now dla_compiler.
  • Updated the Intel® Agilex™ product family name to "Intel Agilex® 7."
2022.12.23 2022.2
  • Update for the Debian package-based install.
  • Add walk-through for validating a YOLOv3 model.
  • Update to account for the new Terasic DE10-Agilex BSP ZIP file.
  • Renamed dla_create_and_build_pcie_ed.py to dla_build_example_design.py

2022.04.27

2022.1
  • Minor fixes to some file names, including one for the running inference in the AOT flow on the FPGA.

2022.04.12

2022.1
  • Notes on installing CMake for CentOS 7.
  • Clarifications to the Model Zoo and Model Optimizer install instructions.

2022.04.08

2022.1
  • Extensively revised installation instructions.
  • Added installation information for the PCI-based design examples.
  • Enhanced details for Intel Agilex devices.
  • Added a quick-start tutorial.
  • Removed supplementary performance details.

2021.09.10

2021.2
  • Added information for initial Intel Agilex device family support.

2021.04.30

2021.1
  • Expanded list of tasks performed by the Intel FPGA AI Suite Compiler.
  • Distinguished more clearly between requirements for the IP and requirements for the Example Designs.

2020.12.04

2020.2
  • Renamed the script that sets the Intel FPGA AI Suite environment variables to init_env.sh. It was called coredla_developer_init_env.sh in earlier releases.

2020.10.30

2020.1
  • Initial release.
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