Today, the Xilinx Developer Conference (XDF) Asia has finally kicked off in Beijing. Like the previous XDF, we will bring a big news to developers around the world at each conference. Today, Xilinx announced that its artificial intelligence inference development software platform Vitis ™ AI will be available for free download today. More developers will experience and benefit from the edge-to-cloud artificial intelligence and deep learning inference provided by Xilinx. Acceleration.

Vitis AI provides a unified development platform for end-to-cloud AI applications, including complete optimization, quantification, compilation, and analysis tools, as well as a high-level unified programming interface based on C ++ and Python, and also provides a wealth of performance-oriented Optimized AI models and acceleration libraries and corresponding example designs improve the development efficiency of AI inference. In order to meet the trend of AI application diversity and adapt to the speed of AI innovation, Vitis AI can provide a variety of deep learning processing units (DPU) to implement hardware adaptation based on AI models and tasks without re-tapping; Vitis AI supports Tensorflow Rapid deployment with popular frameworks such as Caffe, from quantization, compilation to hardware integration, only takes a few minutes.

Combining with Vitis unified software platform and utilizing its powerful heterogeneous system integration and acceleration capabilities, Vitis AI can help developers achieve end-to-end full application acceleration on the Xilinx embedded SoC platform and Alveo platform, achieving dozens of times of performance Promotion. Developers can access Vitis AI for free by visiting the Vitis open source community https://github.com/Xilinx/Vitis-AI, and immediately get started and experience unprecedented artificial intelligence inference speed and performance.

At the Xilinx North American Developer Forum held in early October, Xilinx first introduced Vitis (pronounced Vī-tis), a unified software platform that can help many developers, including software engineers and AI scientists, make the most of it. Powerful hardware adaptability. The Vitis unified software platform was carefully developed by 1,000 software engineers for five years. On this platform, developers do not need hardware expertise to automatically customize Xilinx hardware architecture based on software or algorithm code. The Vitis platform does not require the use of a proprietary development environment, but can be inserted into general software development tools and utilizes a wealth of optimized open source libraries, allowing developers to focus on algorithm development. Vitis is independent of the Vivado® design suite. But for developers who want to program in software code, Xilinx continues to provide support. However, Vitis can also encapsulate hardware modules into software callable functions, thereby improving the productivity of hardware developers.