Vitis AI Library v3.0 Release Notes - 3.0 English

Vitis AI Library User Guide (UG1354)

Document ID
UG1354
Release Date
2023-01-12
Version
3.0 English
This section contains information regarding the features and updates of the Vitis AI Library 3.0 release.

Key Features And Enhancements

This Vitis AI Library release includes the following key features and enhancements:

New Board Support
Versal® ACAP: VEK280 is supported in this release (early access only).
New Runtime Support
ONNX Runtime is supported in this release. The quantized model in the ONNX format can be directly run on the target by ONNX Runtime.
New Model Libraries
Following are the new model libraries supported in this release.
New Model Support
  • Added 14 new PyTorch models
  • Added one new TensorFlow2 model
New CPU Ops Supported
Added three CPU Ops.

Changes

Models based on the Caffe framework are no longer maintained and released.

Compatibility

The Vitis AI Library 3.0 is tested with the following images.

  • xilinx-zcu102-dpu-v2022.2-v3.0.0.img.gz
  • xilinx-zcu104-dpu-v2022.2-v3.0.0.img.gz
  • xilinx-kv260-dpu-v2022.2-v3.0.0.img.gz
  • xilinx-vck190-dpu-v2022.2-v3.0.0.img.gz

Device Support

The following platforms and evaluation boards (EVB) are supported by the Vitis AI Library 3.0.

Table 1. Edge Device Support
Platform EVB Version
Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC ZU9EG Xilinx ZCU102 1.1
Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZU7EV Xilinx ZCU104 1.0
Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Xilinx Kria™ KV260 1.0
Versal AI Core series VC1902 Xilinx VCK190 Production
Versal AI Core series VE2802 Xilinx VEK280 ES1
Table 2. Data Center Board Support
Accelerator Cards
Versal AI Core series VCK5000 Data Center development kit

Limitations

  • For VCK5000, only production cards are supported. Use Vitis AI 1.4.x if using VCK5000-ES1 cards.
  • Alveo U50 and U280 cards are no longer supported. Use Vitis AI 1.4.x if using these cards.
  • Due to limitations of the Docker environment, MultiTask demos cannot run in DRM mode for Data Center targets.