FPGA AI Suite: Getting Started Guide

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1. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide 2. FPGA AI Suite Components 3. FPGA AI Suite Installation Overview 4. Installing the FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools 5. Installing the FPGA AI Suite PCIe-Based Design Example Prerequisites 6. FPGA AI Suite Quick Start Tutorial 7. Running the Hostless DDR-Free Design Example A. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Archives B. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Document Revision History
3. FPGA AI Suite Installation Overview x
3.1. FPGA AI Suite Directory Structure
4. Installing the FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools x
4.1. Supported FPGA Families 4.2. Operating System Prerequisites 4.3. Installing the FPGA AI Suite with System Package Management Tools 4.4. Installing OpenVINO™ Toolkit 4.5. Installing Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software 4.6. Setting Required Environment Variables 4.7. Installing Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) 4.8. Finalizing Your FPGA AI Suite Installation
4.3. Installing the FPGA AI Suite with System Package Management Tools x
Installing FPGA AI Suite on Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* Operating Systems Installing FPGA AI Suite on Ubuntu* Operating Systems Installing FPGA AI Suite in a Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Environment Next Step 4.3.1. Installing the FPGA AI Suite Into an Alternative Location
5. Installing the 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 Agilex™ 7 Devices
6. 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 6.13. Performing Inference Without an FPGA Board
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. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide
2. FPGA AI Suite Components
3. FPGA AI Suite Installation Overview
4. Installing the FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools
5. Installing the FPGA AI Suite PCIe-Based Design Example Prerequisites
6. FPGA AI Suite Quick Start Tutorial
7. Running the Hostless DDR-Free Design Example
A. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Archives
B. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Document Revision History

4.3. Installing the FPGA AI Suite with System Package Management Tools

The FPGA AI Suite is provided as a package that you can install using your system package management tools. The default location for the installation is /opt/intel. If you want to install FPGA AI Suite in a different location, follow the instructions in Installing the FPGA AI Suite Into an Alternative Location.

To install the FPGA AI Suite with system package management tools:
  1. Download the FPGA AI Suite 2024.3 installation package for your operating system from the following Intel FPGA Software Download Center URL:

    https://plan.seek.intel.com/Intel_FPGA_AI_Download_Enroll

    WSL 2 Users: Use a web browser in your Windows* environment to download the file. Ensure that you download FPGA AI Suite for Ubuntu* 20.
    Ubuntu* 22.04 Users: Download the package file to /tmp.
  2. Install FPGA AI Suite according to the instruction for your operating system:

Installing FPGA AI Suite on Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* Operating Systems

For Red Hat* Enterprise Linux*, the FPGA AI Suite is provided as an RPM package that you can install with the dnf command. The dnf command automatically installs several dependencies.

Some of the dependencies are in the CodeReady Linux Builder repository. Enable this repository with the following command: 
sudo subscription-manager repos \
--enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
To install the package into the default location in /opt/intel/, locate the .rpm file and run the following command: 
sudo dnf install <full path to fpga-ai-suite.rpm>

Installing FPGA AI Suite on Ubuntu* Operating Systems

For Ubuntu* operating systems (including those running in a WSL 2 environment), the FPGA AI Suite is provided as a package that you can install with the apt command. The apt command automatically installs several dependencies.

To install the package into the default location in /opt/intel/, locate the .deb file and run the following commands: 
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libappstream4
sudo apt update
sudo apt install <full path to fpga-ai-suite.deb>

Installing FPGA AI Suite in a Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Environment

The FPGA AI Suite supports Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS running in a Windows* Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) environment. Ensure that your WSL 2 environment has Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS installed and that you have internet access from your WSL 2 environment.

To install FPGA AI Suite in your WSL 2 environment:
  1. Move the downloaded .deb file from its downloaded location in your Windows file system to a location in your Linux* file system. You can drag-and-drop the file using Windows* File Explorer. You can find the Linux* file system the Linux entry in the File Explorer navigation pane.
  2. Start a WSL 2 terminal session.
  3. In the WSL2 terminal session, install the package into the default location in /opt/intel/ by locating the .deb file in your Linux* file system and running the following commands:
    sudo apt-get install --reinstall libappstream4
sudo apt update
sudo apt install <full path to fpga-ai-suite.deb>

Next Step

After installing FPGA AI Suite, continue your installation with the steps in Installing OpenVINO Toolkit.


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