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PVA ISP for NVIDIA Jetson

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PVA ISP for
NVIDIA Jetson

Table of Contents [Sticky]

• What is PVA ISP?
  • Key Benefits
  • Supported Platforms,Cameras & Formats
  • Alternatives
• Getting Started
  • How to Get the Code
  • Building PVA ISP
  • Evaluating PVA ISP
• User Guide
  • Integration Options
  • Supported ISP algorithms
  • Debugging, Profiling & Tuning
  • Custom Application Development
• Examples
  • Sample Applications
  • Sample Pipelines
  • Demos
• Performance
  • Latency & Throughput
• Contact Us

This section provides a guide to obtaining, installing, and testing the RidgeRun PVA ISP evaluation version.

Step 1: Request the Evaluation Binaries

RidgeRun provides a fully-featured evaluation version of the plugin with a limited processing time, as shown in table 1:

Table 1. Features provided in the evaluation version

Feature	Professional	Evaluation
PVA ISP Plugin	Y	Y
Unlimited Processing Time	Y	N (*)
Source Code	Y	N

(*) With the evaluation version, you will have access to all the features for a limited period of time.

In order to request an evaluation binary for a specific architecture, please Contact Us by providing the following information:

1. Platform (i.e.: i.Jetson AGX Orin, etc...)
2. L4T Version (i.e.: 36.4.4)
3. GStreamer version and kernel version, you can provide the output of the following commands:

gst-launch-1.0 --gst-version
uname -a

Step 2: Install the dependencies

The following packages are required on the Jetson target for both evaluation and deployment:

Package	Purpose
nvidia-l4t-pva	PVA support package matching the installed JetPack/L4T version
pva-sdk-2.9-l4t	PVA SDK 2.9 runtime
pva-allow-2 version 2.0.5	Enables PVA ISP execution on the PVA

Install the L4T and authorization packages with:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-l4t-pva
sudo apt install pva-allow-2=2.0.5

For JetPack 6, download the PVA SDK 2.9 runtime package manually from:

https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/

Then install it with:

sudo apt install ./pva-sdk-2.9-l4t_<version>_arm64.deb

Verify the installed packages:

dpkg-query -W -f='${Package}\t${Version}\n' \
    nvidia-l4t-core \
    nvidia-l4t-pva \
    pva-sdk-2.9-l4t \
    pva-allow-2

The nvidia-l4t-pva version must match the installed JetPack/L4T release.

Compiler tools, development packages, ASIP Programmer, and NVVPU are not required for evaluation.

Step 3: Install the Binaries

RidgeRun should've provided you with a .tar package: pva-isp-1.Y.Z-gst-1.X-P-eval.tar.

tar -xvf pva-isp-1.x.y-target-JPZ-eval.tar

Run the configuration script to start the evaluation environment.

cd pva-isp-1.x.y-target-JPZ-eval/
./configuration.sh

Step 4: Testing the Binaries

Then check the plugin as follows in the new bash shell.

gst-inspect-1.0 pvaisp
gst-inspect-1.0 pvacudaupload
gst-inspect-1.0 rrv4l2src

You can now test the plugin installation as described in our Sample Applications and Sample Pipelines section.

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