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Mads_From_Denmark
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1 day ago

AI Suite - Why does the Sequential IP not take a model argument?

Hello Altera Community

Why does the Sequential IP not take a model argument?

When targeting the Spatial IP, there is an argument where you can input your model, which is an xml file (and a bin file),  exported using OpenVino. Then it will convert these weights and such to .mif files for the FPGA to load. This is easy to understand.

The Sequential IP is a lot harder to understand. I get that the architecture file does all the fpga block related configuration. But I don't understand how it will know which weights to use. Does the Sequential IP only work for the pre defined example graphs?

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  • JohnT_Altera's avatar
    JohnT_Altera
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    3 hours ago

    Hi,

    The Sequential IP can support multiple model as it is depend on how you implement the features into the IP. So the flow is to run "dla_compiler --network-file model.xml --march my_arch.arch" where it report what is the unsupported layer in the current Sequential IP.

     

    Thanks.