Intel® FPGA AI Suite: Getting Started Guide

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Date 2/02/2024
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1. Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide

Updated for:
Intel® FPGA AI Suite 2023.3

The Intel® FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide provides the following information:

  • An overview of the Intel FPGA AI Suite
  • Installation instructions and a list of prerequisites
  • A tutorial that walks you through the process of running inference on a ResNet-50 graph, including performance and area estimation

About the Intel® FPGA AI Suite Documentation Library

Documentation for the Intel® FPGA AI Suite is split across a few publications. Use the following table to find the publication that contains the Intel® FPGA AI Suite information that you are looking for:
Table 1.   Intel® FPGA AI Suite Documentation Library
Title and Description  
Release Notes

Provides late-breaking information about the Intel® FPGA AI Suite including new features, important bug fixes, and known issues.

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Getting Started Guide

Get up and running with the Intel® FPGA AI Suite by learning how to initialize your compiler environment and reviewing the various design examples and tutorials provided with the Intel® FPGA AI Suite

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IP Reference Manual

Provides an overview of the Intel® FPGA AI Suite IP and the parameters you can set to customize it. This document also covers the Intel® FPGA AI Suite IP generation utility.

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Compiler Reference Manual

Describes the use modes of the graph compiler (dla_compiler). It also provides details about the compiler command options and the format of compilation inputs and outputs.

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PCIe-based Design Example User Guide

Describes the design and implementation for accelerating AI inference using the Intel® FPGA AI Suite, Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, and an Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA or a Terasic* DE10-Agilex Development Board.

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SoC-based Design Example User Guide

Describes the design and implementation for accelerating AI inference using the Intel® FPGA AI Suite, Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, and an Intel® Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA Development Kit.

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Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit Requirement

To use the Intel® FPGA AI Suite, you must be familiar with the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit.

Intel® FPGA AI Suite Version 2023.3 requires the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit Version 2022.3.1 LTS. For OpenVINO™ documentation, refer to https://docs.openvino.ai/2022.3/documentation.html.