README.md

This directory containes examples for running DPU-v1 on Alveo platform. DPU-v1 is High Performance CNN processing engine designed for Xilinx Alveo U200 and U250 platforms. DPU-v1 was released as xDNNv3 as part of ml-suite. With Vitis-AI, Xilinx has integrated all the edge and cloud solutions under an unified API and toolset.

Learn More: DPU-v1 Overview

Setup for Alveo

Targeting Alveo cards with Vitis-AI for AI workloads requires the installation of the following software components:

• Xilinx Run time(XRT)

• Alveo Deployment Shells (DSAs) - it can be downloaded from Getting Started tab of Alveo board product page on xilinx.com

• Xilinx Resource Manager (XRM) (xbutler)

• Xilinx Overlaybins (Accelerators to Dynamically Load – binary programming files)

While it is possible to install all the software components individually, a script has been provided to automatically install them in one-shot.

cd Vitis-AI/alveo/packages
# Run install script as root
sudo su
./install.sh

Then power cycle the system.

Examples

• Jupyter Notebook Tutorials
  • TensorFlow Image Classification
  • Caffe Image Classification
  • Caffe Object Detection w/ YOLOv2
• Command Line Examples
  • TensorFlow ImageNet Benchmark Models
  • Caffe ImageNet Benchmark Models
  • Caffe VOC SSD Example
  • Deployment Mode Examples
• In-Browser GoogLeNet Demo
• REST Server Example

References

• Performance Whitepaper
• Watch: Webinar on Xilinx FPGA Accelerated Inference

Questions and Support

• FAQ