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YJing8
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6 years ago

@Intel support: ask a question about openvino and DLA

There are three different locations about the usage of model. 1. DLA architecture generator generate xxx. prototxt 2.The file used by linux command line is xxx. aocx and then programmed into the ...
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JohnT_Altera
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6 years ago

Hi,

The .aocx file will be link to prototxt file where OpenVINO will refer to as to understand what is supported by the FPGA.

The plugin class will only execute the acceleration into the FPGA depending on what type of design is being programmed into the FPGA by referring to prototxt. It will be done automatically by the OpenVINO tools.

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    YJing8
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    6 years ago

    ​Thanks for your response @JohnT_Intel​

    There are still some puzzles with me.

    1. xxx. prototxt is also caffe NN model file. Is there any relationship between caffe NN model file and architecture file
    2. The format of caffe NN model file seems to be different to architecture file?
    3. As you mentioned "The .aocx file will be link to prototxt file ", whether it means that there are serveral different NN model can be infer to the same bitstream file?
    4. If I customize a primitive, I think it will change the FPGA bitstream. That is the .aocx will also change, not only the .prototxt file?
    5. Where is OpenCL API run? in the software stack of FPGA or in the software stack of X86?