FPGA AI Suite: PCIe-based Design Example User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide 2. About the PCIe* -based Design Example 3. Getting Started with the FPGA AI Suite PCIe* -based Design Example 4. Building the FPGA AI Suite Runtime 5. Running the Design Example Demonstration Applications 6. Design Example Components 7. Design Example System Architecture for the Agilex™ 7 FPGA A. FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide Archives B. FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide Document Revision History
4. Building the 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 FPGA AI Suite 5.3. Compiling the PCIe* -based Example Design 5.4. Programming the FPGA Device ( Agilex™ 7) 5.5. Performing Accelerated Inference with the dla_benchmark Application 5.6. Running the Ported OpenVINO™ Demonstration Applications
5.5. Performing Accelerated Inference with the dla_benchmark Application x
5.5.1. Inference on Image Classification Graphs 5.5.2. Inference on Object Detection Graphs 5.5.3. Additional dla_benchmark Options 5.5.4. The dla_benchmark Performance Metrics
5.5.2. Inference on Object Detection Graphs x
5.5.2.1. The mAP and COCO AP Metrics 5.5.2.2. Specifying Ground Truth 5.5.2.3. Example of Inference on Object Detection Graphs
5.5.4. The dla_benchmark Performance Metrics x
5.5.4.1. Interpreting System Throughput and Latency Metrics
5.6. Running the Ported OpenVINO™ Demonstration Applications x
5.6.1. 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. FPGA AI Suite Runtime 6.3.3. BSP Driver
7. Design Example System Architecture for the Agilex™ 7 FPGA x
7.1. System Overview 7.2. Hardware
7.2. Hardware x
7.2.1. PLL Adjustment
1. FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide
2. About the PCIe* -based Design Example
3. Getting Started with the FPGA AI Suite PCIe* -based Design Example
4. Building the FPGA AI Suite Runtime
5. Running the Design Example Demonstration Applications
6. Design Example Components
7. Design Example System Architecture for the Agilex™ 7 FPGA
A. FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide Archives
B. FPGA AI Suite PCIe-based Design Example User Guide Document Revision History

5.6. Running the Ported OpenVINO™ Demonstration Applications

Some of the sample demonstration applications from the OpenVINO™ toolkit for Linux Version 2023.3 have been ported to work with the FPGA AI Suite. These applications are built at the same time as the runtime when using the -build_demo flag to build_runtime.sh.

The FPGA AI Suite runtime includes customized versions of the following demo applications for use with the FPGA AI Suite IP and plugins:

  • classification_sample_async
  • object_detection_demo_yolov3_async
  • segmentation_demo

Each demonstration application uses a different graph. The OpenVINO™ HETERO plugin can fall-back to the CPU for portions of the graph that are not supported with FPGA-based acceleration. However, in a production environment, it may be more efficient to use alternate graphs that execute exclusively on the FPGA.

You can use the example .arch files that are supplied with the FPGA AI Suite with the demonstration applications. However, certain example .arch files do not enable some of the layer-types used by the graphs associated with the demonstration applications. Using these .arch files cause portions of the graph to needlessly execute on the CPU. To minimize the number of layers that are executed on the CPU by the demonstration application, use the following architecture description files located in the example_architectures/ directory of the FPGA AI Suite installation package to run the demos:
  • Agilex™ 7: AGX7_Generic.arch

As specified in Programming the FPGA Device ( Agilex 7), you must program the FPGA device with the bitstream for the architecture being used. Each demonstration application includes a README.md file specifying how to use it.

When the OpenVINO™ sample applications are modified to support the FPGA AI Suite, the FPGA AI Suite plugin used by OpenVINO™ needs to know how to find the .arch file describing the IP parameterization by using the following configuration key. The following C++ code is used in the demo for this purpose: 

ie.SetConfig({ { DLIA_CONFIG_KEY(ARCH_PATH), FLAGS_arch_file } }, "FPGA");

The OpenVINO™ demonstration application hello_query_device does not work with the FPGA AI Suite due to low-level hardware identification assumptions.


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Example Running the Object Detection Demonstration Application

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