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Get Started with the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick

Content Type: Install & Setup | Article ID: 000033354 | Last Reviewed: 02/02/2022

Requirements:

System running Ubuntu 16.04, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B or Ubuntu VirtualBox instance
Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick
Internet connection to download and install the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute SDK

Note

The Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute SDK only supports the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick. The OpenVINO™ Toolkit supports both the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick and the Intel® Neural Compute Stick 2. See the Getting Started Guide for the Intel® NCS 2.

Install the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute SDK:

Run the following commands on a terminal window:
mkdir -p ~/workspace
cd ~/workspace
git clone -b ncsdk2 https://github.com/movidius/ncsdk
cd ncsdk
make install

Test installation by running the built-in examples:

Plug the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick to your system's USB port and run these commands on a new terminal window:
cd ~/workspace/ncsdk
make examples

Next steps

Visit the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute App Zoo repository for additional sample projects.
Visit the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Network Community for technical discussions about the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick and Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute SDK.
See the Basic Installation and Configuration page for more information

Note

Tensorflow version 1.6 and later requires a CPU with AVX instructions. Ensure your system is running a CPU that supports AVX instruction before you install the NCSDK2.

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