Cheat sheet for working with an industrial computer BOXER-8150AI

Iris Huang, Product Sales manager from AAEON will show and compare individual AI@Edge Boxer products based on Intel + Intel Myriad X VPU processors, NvidiaJetson modules, HiSilicon HI3559A platform and Google Edge TPU.

It is not mentioned in the video, but the manufacturer AAEON also offers mPCle, M.2 2242 and M.2 2280. These are the modules based on the Kneron KL520 neural processor unit (NeuralProcessorUnit, NPU), which add additional possibilities of deploying neural networks on hardware with low energy consumption.

We focused on the features of industrial computers based on NvidiaJetson modules. We also briefly mentioned the features of the software package - Jetpack 4.3 and the distribution of AAEON ACLinux adapted for AAEON hardware.

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There are many useful tasks suitable for artificial intelligence. Deploying it on energy-efficient hardware has many benefits, but one is extremely important: a short response time.

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Installation

AAEON product manager, Mr. OceanLu, recorded the whole process step by step on video and explained why he recommends a computer with Ubuntu 16.04. If you want to use a newer version of Ubuntu, due to the scripts used to load the operating system image, you will need to install Python 2.7. The whole process takes just a few minutes. A little interesting thing. Notice that Mr. OceanLu has an antistatic wrist strap to prevent damage to internal ESD components.

Cheat sheet

Connect the power supply, monitor, mouse and keyboard to the Boxer-8150AI and turn it on. After booting the operating system, start the terminal and follow the enclosed "cheat sheet".

First, compile the demo applications:

$ /usr/share/visionworks/sources/install-samples.sh ~
$ cd ~/VisionWorks-1.6-Samples
$ make

See the compilation result:

$ cd bin/aarch64/linux/release
$ ls

Run the application:

$ ./nvx_demo_feature_tracker

or

nvx_demo_motion_estimation
nvx_demo_hough_transform
nvx_demo_stereo_matching
nvx_demo_video_stabilizer, ect.

If you need more information or you are also interested in other embedded systems or products from AAEON, do not hesitate to contact us at info@soselectronic.com.