Getting started with TI Jacinto 7 Edge AI - Introduction - The Edge AI SDK

Overview

The Edge AI DevKit

Welcome to the Edge AI DevKit page! You will be able to evaluate applications on Vision Analytics with high-performance Computer Vision and Deep Learning demos using live camera and display on TI’s SoC.

For more details visit https://www.ti.com/product/TDA4VM.

Hardware requirements:

TDA4VM/J7ES EVM
USB camera
Full HD eDP display
Minimum 16GB high-performance SD card
Ethernet cable connected to the Internet
UART cable
12 V power supply for the EVM.

Install the Edge AI DevKit image

RidgeRun provided you with the following guide to get started with the EDGE AI setup.

Platform

In order to get started with the Jacinto 7 platform setup, please visit: Jacinto™ 7 EVM Quick Start Guide for TDA4VM and DRA829V processors. You will quickly get into the EVM setup and the Edge AI SDK that lets you have the OS image.

Make sure to visit the documentation for the Processor SDK download and installation.

Jacinto™ 7 EVM Quick Start Guide for TDA4VM and DRA829V processors

Please visit the EVM Quick Start Guide at the following link in order to get to the Getting Started Guide, and also the download webpage for the Processor SDK installer.

https://www.ti.com/lit/ml/spruis8/spruis8.pdf#page=8

Figure 1: Download and install Processor SDK [2]

Jacinto™ 7 Getting Started Guide: Download and install Processor SDK

Figure 2: Download and install Processor SDK [3]

Jacinto™ 7 Linux SDK for DRA829 & TDA4VM Jacinto™ Processors

Figure 3: Download and install Processor SDK [4]

Once you've followed the Getting Started Guide, as Figure 2, you'll be able to have the Jacinto 7 OS up and running.
You can se below the contents about it:

1.1. Getting Started Guide
    1.1.1. Download and Install the SDK
    1.1.2. Run Setup Scripts
    1.1.3. Formatting SD card on Linux
        1.1.3.1. Overview
        1.1.3.2. Select the SD Card Device
        1.1.3.3. Partitioning SD card
            1.1.3.3.1. Tiny Image
    1.1.4. GCC ToolChain

Edge AI Apps

In this section, we are going to get to the Edge AI SDK, where you will find the apps sources, Docker container scripts, and the models files for the AI algorithms. The first thing to be aware of is that the Docker container it's where we will actually be running all the Edge AI apps. The steps to start off are:

Login to the board. Please follow this instruction to login to the board.
Enter to the SDK path for Docker
Create and run the Docker container with the scripts

Refer to the following commands:

# Enter to the Docker container
cd /opt/edge_ai_app/docker

# Create and run the Docker container where the apps live
./docker_build.sh
./docker_run.sh

Once inside the Docker container we can re-enter to the Edge AI SDK path to be good to go with the apps execution.

# Find out the apps at
cd /opt/edge_ai_app/apps_python
cd /opt/edge_ai_app/apps_cpp

All together:

Summary

This guide showed how to download the Texas Instruments Jacinto 7 Processor SDK installer to build the OS image
Get you to the Getting Started Guide
Point you out where the Edge AI Apps lives at the OS File System

References:
[1] Jacinto™ 7 EVM Quick Start Guide for TDA4VM and DRA829V processors
[2] Download and install Processor SDK
[3] Download and Install the SDK
[4] Linux SDK for DRA829 & TDA4VM Jacinto™ Processors

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