Intel® FPGA AI Suite: Getting Started Guide

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1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide 2. About the Intel® FPGA AI Suite 3. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite 4. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-Based Design Example Prerequisites 5. Installing the Intel FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools 6. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Quick Start Tutorial A. Installation Notes for Other Operating Systems B. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Archives C. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Document Revision History
3. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite x
3.1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Directory Structure
4. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-Based Design Example Prerequisites x
4.1. PCIe-based Design Example Hardware Prerequisites 4.2. PCIe-based Design Example Operating System Prerequisites 4.3. PCIe-based Design Example Software Prerequisites
4.3. PCIe-based Design Example Software Prerequisites x
4.3.1. Additional Software Prerequisites for the PCIe-based Design Example for Intel Agilex® 7 Devices 4.3.2. Additional Software Prerequisites for the PCIe-Based Design Example for Intel® Arria® 10 Devices
5. Installing the Intel FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools x
5.1. Supported FPGA Families 5.2. Operating System Prerequisites 5.3. Software Prerequisites 5.4. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite Using System Package Management Tools 5.5. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite Into an Alternative Location
5.3. Software Prerequisites x
5.3.1. OpenVINO™ Toolkit 5.3.2. Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software
6. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Quick Start Tutorial x
6.1. Creating a Working Directory 6.2. Preparing OpenVINO™ Model Zoo and Model Optimizer 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
6.12. 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
A. Installation Notes for Other Operating Systems x
A.1. CentOS* 7 Installation Notes
1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide
2. About the Intel® FPGA AI Suite
3. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite
4. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite PCIe-Based Design Example Prerequisites
5. Installing the Intel FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools
6. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Quick Start Tutorial
A. Installation Notes for Other Operating Systems
B. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Archives
C. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Document Revision History

5.4. Installing the Intel® FPGA AI Suite Using System Package Management Tools

The Intel® FPGA AI Suite is provided as a package that you can install using your system package management tools:
  • Installing on Ubuntu* operating systems:

    For Ubuntu*, the Intel® FPGA AI Suite is provided as a package that you can install with the apt command. The apt command automatically installs several dependencies. Choose the correct Debian package for your operating system (either Ubuntu* 18 or Ubuntu* 20).

    On Ubuntu* 18.04, you might need to update the package database with the apt update command before you install the Intel® FPGA AI Suite package.

    To install the package into the default location in /opt/intel/, locate the .deb file and run the following command: 
    sudo apt install <full path to fpga-ai-suite.deb>
  • Installing on Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* operating systems:

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

    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>

The following dependencies are automatically installed if your system package management tool (apt or dnf) finds a working Internet connection. You must install them manually installed if the tool cannot install them:

  • libnuma-dev
  • cmake
  • python3
  • python3-venv
  • graphviz

The Intel® FPGA AI Suite Ubuntu* 18.04 package includes python3.7 and python3.7-venv as dependencies.

Before you use the Intel® FPGA AI Suite, set the OpenVINO™ toolkit and Intel® FPGA AI Suite environment variables by running the following commands from a bash-style shell (do not use /bin/dash or /bin/tcsh) or by adding the commands to your .bashrc file. If you did not install OpenVINO™ toolkit into the default location, adjust the second command appropriately. 
unalias ls 2> /dev/null
source /opt/intel/openvino_2021/bin/setupvars.sh
source /opt/intel/fpga_ai_suite_2023.1/dla/bin/init_env.sh
You can verify your installation by running the following command: 
dla_compiler --fanalyze-area --march $COREDLA_ROOT/*/A10_Generic.arch

If this command runs successfully, your Intel® FPGA AI Suite installation was successful.

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