Intel® FPGA AI Suite: SoC Design Example User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example User Guide 2. About the SoC Design Example 3. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Quick Start Tutorial 4. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Run Process 5. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Build Process 6. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Intel® Quartus® Prime System Architecture 7. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Soc Design Example Software Components 8. Streaming-to-Memory (S2M) Streaming Demonstration A. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example User Guide Archives B. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example User Guide Document Revision History
2. About the SoC Design Example x
2.1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Prerequisites
3. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Quick Start Tutorial x
3.1. Initial Setup 3.2. Initializing a Work Directory 3.3. (Optional) Create an SD Card Image (.wic) 3.4. Writing the SD Card Image (.wic) to an SD Card 3.5. Preparing the Intel® Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA Development Kit for the Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example 3.6. Adding Compiled Graphs (AOT files) to the SD Card 3.7. Running the Demonstration Applications
3.3. (Optional) Create an SD Card Image (.wic) x
3.3.1. Installing Prerequisite Software for Building an SD Card Image 3.3.2. Building the FPGA Bitstreams 3.3.3. Installing HPS Disk Image Build Prerequisites 3.3.4. (Optional) Downloading the ImageNet Categories 3.3.5. Building the SD Card Image
3.5. Preparing the Intel® Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA Development Kit for the Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example x
3.5.1. Confirming Intel® Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA Development Kit Board Settings 3.5.2. Connect the Intel® Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA Development Kit to the Host Development System 3.5.3. Configuring the Intel® Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA Development Kit UART Connection 3.5.4. Determining the Intel® Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA Development Kit IP Address
3.6. Adding Compiled Graphs (AOT files) to the SD Card x
3.6.1. Preparing OpenVINO™ Model Zoo 3.6.2. Preparing a Model 3.6.3. Compiling the Graphs 3.6.4. Copying the Compiled Graphs to the SD card
3.7. Running the Demonstration Applications x
3.7.1. Running the M2M Mode Demonstration Application 3.7.2. Running the S2M Mode Demonstration Application 3.7.3. Troubleshooting the Demonstration Applications
4. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Run Process x
4.1. Exporting Trained Graphs from Source Frameworks 4.2. Compiling Exported Graphs Through the Intel® FPGA AI Suite
5. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Build Process x
5.1. Building the Intel® Quartus® Prime Project 5.2. Building the Bootable SD Card Image (.wic)
5.1. Building the Intel® Quartus® Prime Project x
5.1.1. Intel® Quartus® Prime Build Flow 5.1.2. Build Script Options 5.1.3. Build Directory
5.1.1. Intel® Quartus® Prime Build Flow x
5.1.1.1. Build Synchronization of FPGA with Software
5.1.3. Build Directory x
5.1.3.1. The create_project.bash Script 5.1.3.2. The generate_sof.bash Script 5.1.3.3. The generate_rbf.bash Script 5.1.3.4. The build_stream_controller.sh Script
6. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Intel® Quartus® Prime System Architecture x
6.1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Inference Sequence Overview 6.2. Memory-to-Memory (M2M) Variant Design 6.3. Streaming-to-Memory (S2M) Variant Design 6.4. Top Level 6.5. The SoC Design Example Platform Designer System 6.6. Fabric EMIF Design Component 6.7. PLL Configuration
6.2. Memory-to-Memory (M2M) Variant Design x
6.2.1. The mSGDMA Intel FPGA IP 6.2.2. RAM considerations
6.3. Streaming-to-Memory (S2M) Variant Design x
6.3.1. Streaming Enablement for Intel® FPGA AI Suite 6.3.2. Nios® V Subsystem 6.3.3. Streaming System Operation 6.3.4. Resolving Input Rate Mismatches Between the Intel® FPGA AI Suite IP and the Streaming Input 6.3.5. The Layout Transform IP as an Application-Specific Block
6.3.3. Streaming System Operation x
6.3.3.1. Streaming System Buffer Management 6.3.3.2. Streaming System Inference Job Management
6.3.5. The Layout Transform IP as an Application-Specific Block x
6.3.5.1. Layout Transform Considerations 6.3.5.2. Layout Transform IP Register Map 6.3.5.3. Layout Transform Configuration Options
6.4. Top Level x
6.4.1. Clock Domains
6.5. The SoC Design Example Platform Designer System x
6.5.1. The dla_0 Platform Designer Layer (dla.qsys) 6.5.2. The hps_0 Platform Designer Layer (hps.qys)
7. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Soc Design Example Software Components x
7.1. Yocto Build and Runtime Linux Environment 7.2. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Runtime Plugin 7.3. Runtime Interaction with the MMD Layer 7.4. MMD Layer Hardware Interaction Library
7.1. Yocto Build and Runtime Linux Environment x
7.1.1. Yocto Recipe: recipes-core/images/coredla-image.bb 7.1.2. Yocto Recipe: recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-socfpga_%.bbapend 7.1.3. Yocto Recipe: recipes-drivers/msgdma-userio/msgdma-userio.bb 7.1.4. Yocto Recipe: recipes-drivers/uio-devices/uio-devices.bb 7.1.5. Yocto Recipe: recipes-kernel/linux/linux-socfpga-lts_5.15.bbappend 7.1.6. Yocto Recipe: wic
7.4. MMD Layer Hardware Interaction Library x
7.4.1. MMD Layer Hardware Interaction Library Class mmd_device 7.4.2. MMD Layer Hardware Interaction Library Class uio_device 7.4.3. MMD Layer Hardware Interaction Library Class dma_device
8. Streaming-to-Memory (S2M) Streaming Demonstration x
8.1. Nios® Subsystem 8.2. Building the Stream Controller Module 8.3. Building the Streaming Demonstration Applications 8.4. Running the Streaming Demonstration
8.1. Nios® Subsystem x
8.1.1. Stream Controller Communication Protocol 8.1.2. Buffer Flow in Streaming Mode using Nios® V Software Scheduler
8.1.2. Buffer Flow in Streaming Mode using Nios® V Software Scheduler x
8.1.2.1. Review of M2M mode 8.1.2.2. External Streaming Mode Buffer Flow 8.1.2.3. Nios® V Stream Controller State Machine Buffer Flow
8.4. Running the Streaming Demonstration x
8.4.1. The streaming_inference_app Application 8.4.2. The image_streaming_app Application
1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example User Guide
2. About the SoC Design Example
3. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Quick Start Tutorial
4. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Run Process
5. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Build Process
6. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example Intel® Quartus® Prime System Architecture
7. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Soc Design Example Software Components
8. Streaming-to-Memory (S2M) Streaming Demonstration
A. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example User Guide Archives
B. Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC Design Example User Guide Document Revision History

5.1.1. Intel® Quartus® Prime Build Flow

All Intel® FPGA AI Suite design examples are launched at the command line by running the dla_build_example_design.py script.

After the build script is invoked, it generates an Intel® FPGA AI Suite IP from the provided architecture file, creates an Intel® Quartus® Prime build directory, builds the Intel® Quartus® Prime project, and produces a bitstream.

The script has several command-line options to select the SoC design example variants. For details about the build script command options, refer to Build Script Options.

Before launching the script, an architecture file is required. The Intel® FPGA AI Suite example architectures are located in directory $COREDLA_ROOT/example_architectures/.

Typical launch usage is as follows: 
dla_build_example_design.py \
  -ed <variant> \
  -a <arch-file> \
  -n 1 \
  --build-dir <dir> \
  --build
The command options are defined as follows:
  • The -ed option selects the SoC design example variant to be built. This option is case sensitive. The Intel® FPGA AI Suite SoC design examples comes as the following variants:
    Table 2.  SoC Design Example Variant

    Variant setting

    Description
    4_A10_M2M Builds a memory-to-memory (M2M) design for the Intel® Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA Development Kit
    4_A10_S2M Builds a streaming-to-memory (S2M) design for the Intel® Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA Development Kit
  • The -a option selects the architecture file.
  • The -n 1 option is the only legal value for this option when you build the SoC design example.
  • The --build-dir option specifies the Intel® Quartus® Prime build.
  • The --build option directs the script to call Intel® Quartus® Prime and create the bitstreams. The create_hps_image.sh script uses these bitstreams when creating the SD card image.

For a complete list of the build script options, refer to "Build Script Options" in PCIe-based Design Example User Guide .

An example of building the Intel® Arria® 10 S2M variant with the A10_Performance architecture in the folder build_a10_perf is as follows: 
dla_build_example_design.py \
  -ed 4_A10_S2M \
  -a $COREDLA_ROOT/example_architectures//A10_Performance.arch \
  -n 1 \
  --build-dir build_a10_perf \
  --build

After the design is built, the output products (.sof or .rbf files) must be combined with the SoC Linux system in order to be used. This is done in one of the steps in the create_hps_image.sh script.

Unlike non-SoC FPGA flows, the .sof file is not downloaded to the board via JTAG.

Do not attempt to download the .sof file over JTAG because downloading the file over JTAG does not result in a working system. Also, if you attempt to reprogram a running Linux system with a new .sof file, the Linux system crashes and the reprogramming results in an unpredictable outcome.

The FPGA device is programmed by booting the Linux system on the SoC via the SD card. For details about combining the build .sof file with the SD card image to create a functional solution, refer to Building the Bootable SD Card Image (.wic).


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Build Synchronization of FPGA with Software

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