# Quick Start(AX620E) **This section applies to the following platforms:** - AX630C、AX631 - AX620Q、AX620QP、AX620QZ This section introduces the basic operations of `ONNX` model conversion, and uses the `pulsar2` tool to compile the `ONNX` model into the `axmodel` model. Please refer to the {ref}`《Development Environment Preparation》 ` section to complete the development environment setup. The example model in this section is the open source model `MobileNetv2`. ## Pulsar2 toolchain command description The function commands in the `Pulsar2` toolchain start with `pulsar2`. The commands that are most relevant to users are `pulsar2 build`, `pulsar2 run` and `pulsar2 version`. - `pulsar2 build` is used to convert `onnx` models to `axmodel` format models - `pulsar2 run` is used to run simulations after model conversion - `pulsar2 version` can be used to view the version information of the current toolchain, which is usually required when reporting issues ```shell root@xxx:/data# pulsar2 --help usage: pulsar2 [-h] {version,build,run} ... positional arguments: {version,build,run} optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit ``` ## Model compilation configuration file description `mobilenet_v2_build_config.json` in the `/data/config/` path shows: ```shell { "model_type": "ONNX", "npu_mode": "NPU1", "quant": { "input_configs": [ { "tensor_name": "input", "calibration_dataset": "./dataset/imagenet-32-images.tar", "calibration_size": 32, "calibration_mean": [103.939, 116.779, 123.68], "calibration_std": [58.0, 58.0, 58.0] } ], "calibration_method": "MinMax", "precision_analysis": false }, "input_processors": [ { "tensor_name": "input", "tensor_format": "BGR", "src_format": "BGR", "src_dtype": "U8", "src_layout": "NHWC", "csc_mode": "NoCSC" } ], "compiler": { "check": 0 } } ``` ::::{attention} The `tensor_name` field in `input_processors`, `output_processors` and `quant` nodes under `input_configs` needs to be set according to the actual input/output node name of the model, or it can be set to `DEFAULT` to indicate that the current configuration applies to all inputs or outputs. :::{figure} ../media/tensor_name.png :align: center :alt: pipeline ::: :::: For more details, please refer to {ref}`Configuration File Detailed Description `. (model_compile_20e)= ## Compile and execute Take `mobilenetv2-sim.onnx` as an example, execute the following `pulsar2 build` command to compile and generate `compiled.axmodel`: ```shell pulsar2 build --target_hardware AX620E --input model/mobilenetv2-sim.onnx --output_dir output --config config/mobilenet_v2_build_config.json ``` :::{warning} Before compiling the model, you need to make sure that the original model has been optimized using the `onnxsim` tool. The main purpose is to convert the model into a static graph that is more conducive to `Pulsar2` compilation and obtain better inference performance. There are two methods: 1. Execute the command directly inside the `Pulsar2` docker: `onnxsim in.onnx out.onnx`. 2. When using `pulsar2 build` to convert the model, add the parameter: `--onnx_opt.enable_onnxsim true` (the default value is false). If you want to learn more about `onnxsim`, you can visit the [official website](https://github.com/daquexian/onnx-simplifier). ::: ### log reference information ``` $ pulsar2 build --target_hardware AX620E --input model/mobilenetv2-sim.onnx --output_dir output --config config/mobilenet_v2_build_config.json 2023-07-29 14:23:01.757 | WARNING | yamain.command.build:fill_default:313 - ignore input csc config because of src_format is AutoColorSpace or src_format and tensor_format are the same Building onnx ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 0:00:00 2023-07-29 14:23:07.806 | INFO | yamain.command.build:build:424 - save optimized onnx to [output/frontend/optimized.onnx] patool: Extracting ./dataset/imagenet-32-images.tar ... patool: running /usr/bin/tar --extract --file ./dataset/imagenet-32-images.tar --directory output/quant/dataset/input patool: ... ./dataset/imagenet-32-images.tar extracted to `output/quant/dataset/input'. Quant Config Table ┏━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Input ┃ Shape ┃ Dataset Directory ┃ Data Format ┃ Tensor Format ┃ Mean ┃ Std ┃ ┡━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ input │ [1, 3, 224, 224] │ input │ Image │ BGR │ [103.93900299072266, 116.77899932861328, 123.68000030517578] │ [58.0, 58.0, 58.0] │ └───────┴──────────────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────┘ Transformer optimize level: 0 32 File(s) Loaded. [14:23:09] AX LSTM Operation Format Pass Running ... Finished. [14:23:09] AX Set MixPrecision Pass Running ... Finished. [14:23:09] AX Refine Operation Config Pass Running ... Finished. [14:23:09] AX Reset Mul Config Pass Running ... Finished. [14:23:09] AX Tanh Operation Format Pass Running ... Finished. [14:23:09] AX Confused Op Refine Pass Running ... Finished. [14:23:09] AX Quantization Fusion Pass Running ... Finished. [14:23:09] AX Quantization Simplify Pass Running ... Finished. [14:23:09] AX Parameter Quantization Pass Running ... Finished. Calibration Progress(Phase 1): 100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 32/32 [00:01<00:00, 18.07it/s] Finished. [14:23:11] AX Passive Parameter Quantization Running ... Finished. [14:23:11] AX Parameter Baking Pass Running ... Finished. [14:23:11] AX Refine Int Parameter Pass Running ... Finished. [14:23:11] AX Refine Weight Parameter Pass Running ... Finished. --------- Network Snapshot --------- Num of Op: [100] Num of Quantized Op: [100] Num of Variable: [278] Num of Quantized Var: [278] ------- Quantization Snapshot ------ Num of Quant Config: [387] BAKED: [53] OVERLAPPED: [145] ACTIVATED: [65] SOI: [1] PASSIVE_BAKED: [53] FP32: [70] Network Quantization Finished. [Warning]File output/quant/quant_axmodel.onnx has already exist, quant exporter will overwrite it. 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max_cycle = 782,940 2023-07-29 14:23:22.159 | INFO | yamain.command.build:compile_npu_subgraph:1004 - QuantAxModel macs: 280,262,480 2023-07-29 14:23:25.209 | INFO | backend.ax620e.linker:link_with_dispatcher:1586 - DispatcherQueueType.IO: Generate 69 EU chunks, 7 Dispatcher Chunk 2023-07-29 14:23:25.209 | INFO | backend.ax620e.linker:link_with_dispatcher:1586 - DispatcherQueueType.Compute: Generate 161 EU chunks, 23 Dispatcher Chunk 2023-07-29 14:23:25.209 | INFO | backend.ax620e.linker:link_with_dispatcher:1587 - EU mcode size: 147 KiB 2023-07-29 14:23:25.209 | INFO | backend.ax620e.linker:link_with_dispatcher:1588 - Dispatcher mcode size: 21 KiB 2023-07-29 14:23:25.209 | INFO | backend.ax620e.linker:link_with_dispatcher:1589 - Total mcode size: 168 KiB 2023-07-29 14:23:26.928 | INFO | yamain.command.build:compile_ptq_model:940 - fuse 1 subgraph(s) ``` :::{note} The host configuration on which this example runs is: > - Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6336Y CPU @ 2.40GHz > - Memory 32G The whole process takes about `11s`, and the host conversion time varies slightly with different configurations. ::: ### Model compilation output file description ```shell root@xxx:/data# tree output/ output/ ├── build_context.json ├── compiled.axmodel # Model will be run on the board ├── compiler # Compiler backend intermediate results and debug information ├── frontend # Front-end graph optimization intermediate results and debug information │ └── optimized.onnx # Input model: floating point ONNX model after graph optimization └── quant # Quantization tool output and debug information directory ├── dataset # The decompressed calibration set data directory │   └── input │   ├── ILSVRC2012_val_00000001.JPEG │   ├── ...... │   └── ILSVRC2012_val_00000032.JPEG ├── debug ├── quant_axmodel.json # Quantitative configuration information └── quant_axmodel.onnx # Quantized model, QuantAxModel ``` `compiled.axmodel` is the `.axmodel` model file that can be run on the board generated by the final compilation ::::{note} Because `.axmodel` is developed based on the **ONNX** model storage format, changing the `.axmodel` file suffix to `.axmodel.onnx` can support being directly opened by the network model graphical tool **Netron**. :::{figure} ../media/axmodel-netron.png :align: center :alt: pipeline ::: :::: #### Model information query By using `onnx inspect --io ${axmodel/onnx_path}` to view the input and output information of compiled `axmodel`, and other parameter `-m -n -t` to view model's information of `meta / node / tensor` ```shell root@xxx:/data# onnx inspect -m -n -t output/compiled.axmodel Failed to check model output/compiled.axmodel, statistic could be inaccurate! Inpect of model output/compiled.axmodel ================================================================================ Graph name: 8 Graph inputs: 1 Graph outputs: 1 Nodes in total: 1 ValueInfo in total: 2 Initializers in total: 2 Sparse Initializers in total: 0 Quantization in total: 0 Meta information: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IR Version: 7 Opset Import: [version: 13 ] Producer name: Pulsar2 Producer version: Domain: Doc string: Pulsar2 Version: 1.8-beta1 Pulsar2 Commit: 6a7e59de meta.{} = {} extra_data CgsKBWlucHV0EAEYAgoICgZvdXRwdXQSATEaMgoFbnB1XzBSKQoNbnB1XzBfYjFfZGF0YRABGhYKBnBhcmFtcxoMbnB1XzBfcGFyYW1zIgAoAQ== Node information: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Node type "neu mode" has: 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Node "npu_0": type "neu mode", inputs "['input']", outputs "['output']" Tensor information: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ValueInfo "input": type UINT8, shape [1, 224, 224, 3], ValueInfo "output": type FLOAT, shape [1, 1000], Initializer "npu_0_params": type UINT8, shape [3740416], Initializer "npu_0_b1_data": type UINT8, shape [173256], ``` (model_simulator_20e)= ## Simulation Run This chapter introduces the basic operations of `axmodel` simulation. The `pulsar2 run` command can be used to run the `axmodel` model generated by `pulsar2 build` directly on the `PC`. The running results of the network model can be quickly obtained without running on the board. ### Simulation run preparation Some models can only support specific input data formats, and the output data of the model is also output in a module-specific format. Before the model simulation is run, the input data needs to be converted into a data format supported by the model. This part of the data operation is called `pre-processing`. After the model simulation is run, the output data needs to be converted into a data format that can be analyzed and viewed by the tool. This part of the data operation is called `post-processing`. The `pre-processing` and `post-processing` tools required for the simulation run are already included in the `pulsar2-run-helper` folder. `pulsar2-run-helper` folder contents are as follows: ```shell root@xxx:/data# ll pulsar2-run-helper/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 2 12:23 models/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Dec 2 12:23 pulsar2_run_helper/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 2 12:23 sim_images/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 2 12:23 sim_inputs/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 2 12:23 sim_outputs/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.0K Dec 2 12:23 cli_classification.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.6K Dec 2 12:23 cli_detection.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Dec 2 12:23 list.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Dec 2 12:23 requirements.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308 Dec 2 12:23 setup.cfg ``` ### Simulation run example `mobilenetv2` Copy the `compiled.axmodel` generated in the {ref}`《Compile and Execute》 ` section to the `pulsar2-run-helper/models` path and rename it to `mobilenetv2.axmodel` ```shell root@xxx:/data# cp output/compiled.axmodel pulsar2-run-helper/models/mobilenetv2.axmodel ``` #### Input data preparation Enter the `pulsar2-run-helper` directory and use the `cli_classification.py` script to process `cat.jpg` into the input data format required by `mobilenetv2.axmodel`. ```shell root@xxx:~/data# cd pulsar2-run-helper root@xxx:~/data/pulsar2-run-helper# python3 cli_classification.py --pre_processing --image_path sim_images/cat.jpg --axmodel_path models/mobilenetv2.axmodel --intermediate_path sim_inputs/0 [I] Write [input] to 'sim_inputs/0/input.bin' successfully. ``` #### Simulation Model Reasoning Run the `pulsar2 run` command, use `input.bin` as the input data of `mobilenetv2.axmodel` and perform inference calculations, and output `output.bin` inference results. ```shell root@xxx:~/data/pulsar2-run-helper# pulsar2 run --model models/mobilenetv2.axmodel --input_dir sim_inputs --output_dir sim_outputs --list list.txt Building native ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 0:00:00 >>> [0] start write [output] to [sim_outputs/0/output.bin] successfully >>> [0] finish ``` #### Output data processing Use the `cli_classification.py` script to post-process the `output.bin` data output by the simulation model inference to obtain the final calculation results. ```shell root@xxx:/data/pulsar2-run-helper# python3 cli_classification.py --post_processing --axmodel_path models/mobilenetv2.axmodel --intermediate_path sim_outputs/0 [I] The following are the predicted score index pair. [I] 9.1132, 285 [I] 8.8490, 281 [I] 8.7169, 282 [I] 8.0566, 283 [I] 6.8679, 463 ``` (onboard_running_20e)= ## Development board running This section describes how to run the `compiled.axmodel` model obtained through the {ref}`《Compile and Execute》 ` section on the `AX630C` `AX620Q` development board. ### Development Board Acquisition - Get the **AX630C DEMO Board** after signing an NDA with AXera through the enterprise channel. ### Use the ax_run_model tool to quickly test the model inference speed In order to facilitate users to evaluate the model, the {ref}`ax_run_model ` tool is pre-made on the development board. This tool has several parameters that can easily test the model speed and accuracy. Copy `mobilenetv2.axmodel` to the development board and execute the following command to quickly test the model inference performance (first perform 3 inferences for warm-up to eliminate statistical errors caused by resource initialization, then perform 10 inferences to calculate the average inference speed). ```shell /root # ax_run_model -m /opt/data/npu/models/mobilenetv2.axmodel -w 3 -r 10 Run AxModel: model: /opt/data/npu/models/mobilenetv2.axmodel type: Half vnpu: Disable affinity: 0b01 warmup: 3 repeat: 10 batch: { auto: 0 } pulsar2 ver: 1.8-beta1 6a7e59de engine ver: 2.6.3sp tool ver: 2.3.3sp cmm size: 4414192 Bytes ------------------------------------------------------ min = 1.093 ms max = 1.098 ms avg = 1.096 ms ------------------------------------------------------ ``` ### Use the sample_npu_classification example to test the inference results of a single image :::{hint} The running example has been pre-installed in the file system of the development board, and its source files are located in the folder under the SDK path `msp/sample/npu`. Copy `mobilennetv2.axmodel` to the development board and use `sample_npu_classification` for testing. ::: `sample_npu_classification` Input parameter description: ```shell /root # sample_npu_classification --help usage: sample_npu_classification --model=string --image=string [options] ... options: -m, --model joint file(a.k.a. joint model) (string) -i, --image image file (string) -g, --size input_h, input_w (string [=224,224]) -r, --repeat repeat count (int [=1]) -?, --help print this message ``` By executing the `sample_npu_classification` program, the classification model is run on the board. The running results are as follows: ```shell /root # sample_npu_classification -m mobilenetv2.axmodel -i /opt/data/npu/images/cat.jpg -r 100 -------------------------------------- model file : mobilenetv2.axmodel image file : /opt/data/npu/images/cat.jpg img_h, img_w : 224 224 -------------------------------------- Engine creating handle is done. Engine creating context is done. Engine get io info is done. Engine alloc io is done. Engine push input is done. -------------------------------------- topk cost time:0.10 ms 9.1132, 285 8.8490, 281 8.7169, 282 8.0566, 283 6.8679, 463 -------------------------------------- Repeat 100 times, avg time 1.09 ms, max_time 1.10 ms, min_time 1.09 ms -------------------------------------- ``` - From here, we can see that the results of running the same `mobilenetv2.axmodel` model on the development board are consistent with the results of {ref}`《Simulation Run》 `; - For details on the source code and compilation generation of the executable program `ax_classification` on the board, please refer to {ref}`《Model Deployment Advanced Guide》 `.