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

4.6. Setting Required Environment Variables

Set the OpenVINO™ toolkit and 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. 
source /opt/intel/openvino_2024/setupvars.sh

source /opt/altera/fpga_ai_suite_2025.1/dla/setupvars.sh
Tip: If you have multiple versions of FPGA AI Suite installed on your system, you can use source commands to switch between them. To switch, source the environment variable setup scripts for the version of FPGA AI Suite that you want to run. You must ensure that you also have the required OpenVINO™ toolkit version available.
For example, if you want to run FPGA AI Suite 2023.3, run the following commands: 
source /opt/intel/openvino_2022/setupvars.sh

source /opt/intel/fpga_ai_suite_2023.3/dla/setupvars.sh

In some older versions of FPGA AI Suite, the environment variable setting script is called init_env.sh and might be in a slightly different path (dla/bin/init_env.sh).

Next Step

After setting the required environment variables, complete your installation with the steps in Finalizing Your FPGA AI Suite Installation.

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