FPGA AI Suite: Getting Started Guide

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1. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide 2. FPGA AI Suite Components 3. FPGA AI Suite Installation Overview 4. Installing the FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools 5. Installing the FPGA AI Suite PCIe-Based Design Example Prerequisites 6. FPGA AI Suite Quick Start Tutorial A. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Archives B. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Document Revision History
3. FPGA AI Suite Installation Overview x
3.1. FPGA AI Suite Directory Structure
4. Installing the FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools x
4.1. Supported FPGA Families 4.2. Operating System Prerequisites 4.3. Installing the FPGA AI Suite with System Package Management Tools 4.4. Installing OpenVINO™ Toolkit 4.5. Installing Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software 4.6. Setting Required Environment Variables 4.7. Finalizing Your FPGA AI Suite Installation
4.3. Installing the FPGA AI Suite with System Package Management Tools x
4.3.1. Installing the FPGA AI Suite Into an Alternative Location
5. Installing the FPGA AI Suite PCIe-Based Design Example Prerequisites x
5.1. PCIe-based Design Example Hardware Prerequisites 5.2. PCIe-based Design Example Operating System Prerequisites 5.3. PCIe-based Design Example Software Prerequisites
5.3. PCIe-based Design Example Software Prerequisites x
5.3.1. Additional Software Prerequisites for the PCIe-based Design Example for Agilex™ 7 Devices
6. FPGA AI Suite Quick Start Tutorial x
6.1. Creating a Working Directory 6.2. Preparing OpenVINO™ Model Zoo 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 6.13. Performing Inference Without an FPGA Board
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
1. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide
2. FPGA AI Suite Components
3. FPGA AI Suite Installation Overview
4. Installing the FPGA AI Suite Compiler and IP Generation Tools
5. Installing the FPGA AI Suite PCIe-Based Design Example Prerequisites
6. FPGA AI Suite Quick Start Tutorial
A. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Archives
B. FPGA AI Suite Getting Started Guide Document Revision History

4.2. Operating System Prerequisites

The FPGA AI Suite supports the following operating systems:
  • Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 8.7
  • Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 8.10
  • Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS

    Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS is supported natively and in a Windows* Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) environment.

    In a WSL 2 environment, only the FPGA AI Suite compiler and IP generation tools are supported.

    On Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS, FPGA AI Suite has additional prerequisites required to support the FPGA AI Suite design examples. For details, refer to Additional Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Requirements.

  • Ubuntu* 22.04 LTS

    Ubuntu* 22.04 LTS is supported only natively. It is not supported in a WSL 2 environment. For support in a WSL 2 environment, use Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS.

Important:

The PCIe-based design examples require specific versions operating systems. This is required only to use the specific PCIe example design listed. For the operating system requirements for the PCIe-based design examples, refer to the following table:

Table 4.  PCIe-Based Design Example Operating System Requirements
Design Example Operating System Requirement
PCIe-based design example for Agilex™ 7 devices Ubuntu* 20.04.5

For details about the operating system requirements for the PCIe-based design example, refer to PCIe-based Design Example Operating System Prerequisites.

Additional Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS Requirements

The FPGA AI Suite design examples require CMake 3.21 or later. The default version of CMake provided with Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS is too low.

Update your CMake version on Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS to a compatible version (CMake 3.31) by running the following commands: 
sudo apt update

sudo apt install wget


wget https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cmake/\
cmake_3.31.6-0kitware1ubuntu20.04.1_amd64.deb

wget https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cmake/\
cmake-data_3.31.6-0kitware1ubuntu20.04.1_all.deb


sudo dpkg -i cmake-data_3.31.6-0kitware1ubuntu20.04.1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i cmake_3.31.6-0kitware1ubuntu20.04.1_amd64.deb
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