Intel® FPGA AI Suite: PCIe-based Design Example User Guide

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1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide 2. About the PCIe* -based Design Example 3. Getting Started with the Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe* -based Design Example 4. Building the Intel® FPGA AI Suite Runtime 5. Running the Design Example Demonstration Applications 6. Design Example Components 7. Design Example System Architecture for the Intel PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA A. Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide Archives B. Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide Document Revision History
4. Building the Intel® FPGA AI Suite Runtime x
4.1. CMake Targets 4.2. Build Options
5. Running the Design Example Demonstration Applications x
5.1. Exporting Trained Graphs from Source Frameworks 5.2. Compiling Exported Graphs Through the Intel FPGA AI Suite 5.3. Compiling the PCIe* -based Example Design 5.4. Programming the FPGA Device ( Intel® Arria® 10) 5.5. Programming the FPGA Device ( Intel Agilex® 7) 5.6. Performing Accelerated Inference with the dla_benchmark Application 5.7. Running the Ported OpenVINO™ Demonstration Applications
5.6. Performing Accelerated Inference with the dla_benchmark Application x
5.6.1. Inference on Image Classification Graphs 5.6.2. Inference on Object Detection Graphs 5.6.3. Additional dla_benchmark Options
5.6.2. Inference on Object Detection Graphs x
5.6.2.1. The mAP and COCO AP Metrics 5.6.2.2. Specifying Ground Truth 5.6.2.3. Example of Inference on Object Detection Graphs
5.7. Running the Ported OpenVINO™ Demonstration Applications x
5.7.1. Example Running the Object Detection Demonstration Application
6. Design Example Components x
6.1. Build Script 6.2. Example Architecture Bitstream Files 6.3. Software Components 6.4. Software Interface to the BSP
6.1. Build Script x
6.1.1. Build Script Options 6.1.2. Script Flow
6.3. Software Components x
6.3.1. OpenVINO™ FPGA Runtime Plugin 6.3.2. Intel FPGA AI Suite Runtime 6.3.3. BSP Driver
7. Design Example System Architecture for the Intel PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA x
7.1. System Overview 7.2. Hardware
7.2. Hardware x
7.2.1. PLL Adjustment
1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide
2. About the PCIe* -based Design Example
3. Getting Started with the Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe* -based Design Example
4. Building the Intel® FPGA AI Suite Runtime
5. Running the Design Example Demonstration Applications
6. Design Example Components
7. Design Example System Architecture for the Intel PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA
A. Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide Archives
B. Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide Document Revision History

7.1. System Overview

The system consists of the following components connected to a host system via a PCIe* interface as shown in the following figure.
  • A board with the FPGA device
  • On-board DDR memory

The FPGA image consists of the Intel FPGA AI Suite IP and an additional logic that connects it to a PCIe* interface and DDR. The host can read and write to the DDR memory through the PCIe* port. In addition, the host can communicate and control the Intel FPGA AI Suite instances through the PCIe* connection which is also connected the direct memory access (DMA) CSR port of Intel FPGA AI Suite instances.

The Intel FPGA AI Suite IP accelerates neural network inference on batches of images. The process of executing a batch follows these steps:

  1. The host writes a batch of images, weights, and config data to DDR where weights can be reused between batches.
  2. The host writes to the Intel FPGA AI Suite CSR to start execution.
  3. Intel FPGA AI Suite computes the results of the batch and stores them in DDR.
  4. Once the computation is complete, Intel FPGA AI Suite raises an interrupt to the host.
  5. The host reads back the results from DDR.
Figure 2.  Intel FPGA AI Suite Example Design System Overview
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