Kneron AI Documentations
Kneron AI is a full development stack for AI inference with Kneron AI Chip. It is composed of tools, control libraries and example references.
Kneron AI consists the following components:
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Kneron AI Development Kit - Kneron PLUS It is Platform Libraries Unified Software to control Kneron Chip via USB interface KL520 SDK v1.6.0 / KL720 SDK v1.4.1 / KL630 SDK v2.5.2 / KL730 SDK v1.0.0, or higher version is required
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Kneron AI Development Kit - Firmware SDK Open source for peripheral drivers, middleware and application code can be optimized to meet the needs for different applications - KL520 SDK - KL720 SDK - KL630 SDK - KL730 SDK
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Kneron AI Development Kit - Kneron Model Toolchain A series of utilities for Kneron AI model creation - ONNX converter - Compiler - Quantizer - Evaluator - Simulator
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Kneron AI Model Zoo A set of structure pre-optimized models used for demo and also open for re-training
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Kneron AI Chips - KL520: Dongle, 96board, M.2 board - KL720: Dongle, 96board - KL630: 96board - KL730: 96board
Compatibility Table
Versions | KL520 SDK version | KL720 SDK version | KL630 SDK version (NNM version) | KL730 SDK version |
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Kneron PLUS v3.0.0 | 2.2.x | 2.2.x | 2.5.5 (1.2.x) | 1.0.0 |
Kneron PLUS v2.3.x-alpha | 2.2.x | 2.2.x | 2.5.5 (1.2.x) | 1.0.0-alpha |
Kneron PLUS v2.2.x | 2.2.x | 2.2.x | 2.5.5 (1.2.x) | Not supported |
Kneron PLUS v2.1.x | 2.1.x | 2.1.x | 2.5.2 (1.0.x) | Not supported |
Kneron PLUS v2.0.x | 2.0.x | 2.0.x | Not supported | Not supported |
Kneron PLUS v1.3.x | 1.7.x | 1.5.x | Not supported | Not supported |
Kneron PLUS v1.2.x | 1.6.x | 1.4.x | Not supported | Not supported |
host_lib v1.0.0 | 1.5.0.0 | 1.3.0 | Not supported | Not supported |
host_lib v0.9.x | 1.4.0.x | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
Notes: Host API v1.0.0(host_lib) stays with KL520 SDK v1.5.0.0 / KL720 SDK v1.3.0 and deprecated from KL520 SDK v1.6.0/KL720 SDK v1.4.1
First Touch
Kneron PLUS provides low barrier AI inference experience to touch AI.
Please see Kneron PLUS-C - Getting Started (or Python - Getting Started) as a start
References
- Kneron PLUS-C / Kneron PLUS-Python
- Firmware KL520 SDK
- Firmware KL720 SDK
- Kneron Model Toolchain
- Model Zoo - C-examples / Python-examples
- Model Zoo - retraining