Intel® FPGA AI Suite: Getting Started Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
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

6.7. Performing Inference on the PCIe-Based Example Design

Monitoring Temperature on the Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA

As described in the "Additional Hardware Requirements for the Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA " section of PCIe-based Design Example Hardware Prerequisites, the Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA requires supplementary cooling. If the supplementary cooling is insufficient, the Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA hangs during inference.

Until you are certain that your cooling solution is sufficient, monitor the temperature with the sudo fpgainfo temp command.

Performing Inference Using JIT Mode

The JIT (just-in-time) mode causes the dla_benchmark demonstration application to call the dla_compiler command in a just-in-time way to compile the neural net graph.

If you do not have images and ground truth files, you can skip the optional -i and -groundtruth_loc parameter entries in the command that follows. If you skip these parameters, the dla_benchmark demonstration application generates randomized image data.

The value for $curarch must match the bitstream that you programmed in Programming the FPGA Device. 

imagedir=$COREDLA_WORK/demo/sample_images
xmldir=$COREDLA_WORK/demo/models/public/ 
$COREDLA_WORK/runtime/build_Release/dla_benchmark/dla_benchmark \
    -b=1 \
    -m $xmldir/resnet-50-tf/FP32/resnet-50-tf.xml \
    -d=HETERO:FPGA,CPU \
    -niter=8 \
    -plugins_xml_file $COREDLA_WORK/runtime/plugins.xml \
    -arch_file $curarch \
    -api=async \
    -perf_est \
    -nireq=4 \
    -bgr \
    -i $imagedir \
    -groundtruth_loc $imagedir/TF_ground_truth.txt
Troubleshoot:
If you see an error like the following message while using the Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA board, the init_env.sh script from the Intel® Acceleration Stack likely did not work properly: 
[Step 7/12] Loading the model to the device
Error initializing DMA: invalid parameter
Error initializing mmd dma
eventfd : Bad file descriptor terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::system_error'
what(): No such process
Aborted (core dumped)

To fix this error, reboot your system and try running the dla_benchmark command again.

The script is responsible for setting up huge pages, among other things.

Performing Inference Using AOT Mode

In AOT (ahead-of-time) mode, the dla_benchmark demonstration application uses a compiled network that was previously produced by the dla_compiler compiler command when you followed the steps in Running the Graph Compiler.

To use AOT mode instead of JIT mode:

  1. Add the -cm argument to specify the name of the file containing the compiled network
  2. Remove the -perf_est flag. The dla_benchmark demonstration application does not performance estimation in AOT mode.

If you omit -i and -groundtruth_loc arguments, the dla_benchmark demonstration application generates random input data that is useful only for performance benchmarking. 

gt_file=$COREDLA_WORK/demo/sample_images/TF_ground_truth.txt
$COREDLA_WORK/runtime/build_Release/dla_benchmark/dla_benchmark \
    -b=1 \
    -cm $COREDLA_WORK/demo/RN50_Performance_b1.bin \
    -d=HETERO:FPGA,CPU \
    -niter=8 \
    -plugins_xml_file $COREDLA_WORK/runtime/plugins.xml \
    -arch_file $curarch \
    -api=async \
    -nireq=4 \
    -bgr \
    -i $COREDLA_WORK/demo/sample_images/ \
    -groundtruth_loc $gt_file

The -cm argument points to the .bin file that you created in Running the Graph Compiler.

Inference APIs

The easiest way to evaluate the ability of the Intel® FPGA AI Suite to perform inference is to use the dla_benchmark demonstration application that is included in the example runtime and is built as part of the steps described in Programming the FPGA Device.

The example runtime also includes instructions on how to use the OpenVINO™ Python API to execute inference using the JIT style described in Performing Inference Using JIT Mode.

These instructions are located in $COREDLA_WORK/runtime/python_demos/README.md.

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