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Edge AI Software And Development Tools
Notice
Our documentation landing pages are the following:
- https://www.ti.com/edgeai : Technology page summarizing TI’s edge AI software/hardware products
- https://github.com/TexasInstruments/edgeai : Landing page for developers to understand overall software and tools offering
- Our repositories have been restructured : Please navigate to the tables below to understand how several repositories are now packaged inside edgeai-tensorlab
Introduction
Embedded inference of Deep Learning models is quite challenging - due to high compute requirements. TI’s Edge AI comprehensive software product help to optimize and accelerate inference on TI’s embedded devices. It supports heterogeneous execution of DNNs across cortex-A based MPUs, TI’s latest generation C7x DSP and DNN accelerator (MMA).
TI's Edge AI solution simplifies the whole product life cycle of DNN development and deployment by providing a rich set of tools and optimized libraries.
Overview
The figure below provides a high level summary of the relevant tools:<br><img src="assets/workblocks_tools_software.png" width="800">
Details of various tools
The table below provides detailed explanation of each of the tools:
| Category | Tool/Link | Purpose | IS NOT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inference (and compilation) Tools | edgeai-tidl-tools | To get familiar with model compilation and inference flow<br>- Post training quantization<br>- Benchmark latency with out of box example models (10+)<br>- Compile user / custom model for deployment<br>- Inference of compiled models on X86_PC or TI SOC using file base input and output<br>- Docker for easy development environment setup | - Does not support benchmarking accuracy of models using TIDL with standard datasets, for e.g. - accuracy benchmarking using MS COCO dataset for object detection models. Please refer to edgeai-benchmark for the same.<br>- Does not support Camera, Display and inference based end-to-end pipeline development. Please refer Edge AI SDK for such usage |
| Integrated environment for training and compilation | Edge AI Studio: Model Analyzer | Browser based environment to allow model evaluation with TI EVM farm<br>- Allow model evaluation without and software/hardware setup at user end<br>- User can reserve EVM from TI EVM farm and perform model evaluation using jupyter notebook<br>- Model selection tool: To provide suitable model architectures for TI devices | - Does not support Camera, Display and inference based end-to-end pipeline development. Please refer Edge AI SDK for such usage |
| ditto | Edge AI Studio: Model Composer | GUI based Integrated environment for data set capture, annotation, training, compilation with connectivity to TI development board<br>- Bring/Capture your own data, annotate, select a model, perform training and generate artifacts for deployment on SDK<br>- Live preview for quick feedback | - Does not support Bring Your Own Model workflow |
| Edge AI Software Development Kit | Devices & SDKs | SDK to develop end-to-end AI pipeline with camera, inference and display<br>- Different inference runtime: TFLiteRT, ONNXRT, NEO AI DLR, TIDL-RT<br>- Framework: openVX, gstreamer<br>- Device drivers: Camera, display, networking<br>- OS: Linux, RTOS<br>- May other software modules: codecs, OpenCV,… |
| Category | Tool/Link | Purpose | IS NOT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Model Zoo, Model training, compilation/benchmark & associated tools | edgeai-tensorlab | To provide model training software, collection of pretrained models and documemtation and compilation/benchmark scripts. Includes edgeai-modelzoo, edgeai-benchmark, edgeai-modeloptimization, edgeai-modelmaker, edgeai-torchvision, edgeai-mmdetection and such repositories. |
Workflows
Bring your own model (BYOM) workflow:<br><img src="assets/workflow_bring_your_own_model.png" width="600">
Train your own model (TYOM) workflow:<br><img src="assets/workflow_train_your_own_model.png" width="600">
Bring your own data (BYOD) workflow:<br><img src="assets/workflow_bring_your_own_data.png" width="600">
<hr>Publications
Read some of our Technical publications
<hr>Issue Trackers
Issue tracker for Edge AI Studio is listed in its landing page.
Issue tracker for TIDL: Please include the tag TIDL (as you create a new issue, there is a space to enter tags, at the bottom of the page).
Issue tracker for edge AI SDK Please include the tag EDGEAI (as you create a new issue, there is a space to enter tags, at the bottom of the page).
Issue tracker for ModelZoo, Model Benchmark & Deep Neural Network Training Software: Please include the tag MODELZOO (as you create a new issue, there is a space to enter tags, at the bottom of the page).
<hr>What is New
- [2023-Dec] Updated link to Model Optimization Tools
- [2023-May] Documentation update and restructure.
- [2023-March] Several of these repositories have been updated
- [2022-April] Several of these repositories have been updated
- [2021-August] Several of our repositories are being moved from git.ti.com to github.com
- [2021-December-21] Several of our repositories are being updated in preparation for the 8.1 (08_01_00_xx) release. These include edgeai-tidl-tools, edgeai-benchmark, edgeai-modelzoo and edgeai-torchvision. A new version of PROCESSOR-SDK-LINUX-SK-TDA4VM that corresponds to this will be available in a few days.
- [2022-April-5] Several of the repositories are being updated in preparation for the 8.2 (08_02_00_xx) release.
License
Please see the LICENSE file for more information about the license under which this landing repository is made available. The LICENSE file of each repository mentioned here is inside that repository.