topic Re: Coral Edge compiler tools in i.MX Processors

Coral Edge compiler tools

rogerdavis_mitr — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:21:16 GMT

I am being given a Coral Edge (i.MX8M) evaluation board in a few days and would like to set up an environment to compile some programs to run on it. I found an i.MX8M SDK and downloaded that. Is there a getting started or users guide that I can follow to setup to do some programming on the Coral board? Thanks

Roger

Re: Coral Edge compiler tools

igorpadykov — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:30:29 GMT

Hi Roger

one can look

Coral | Dev Board

Coral | Docs

Coral | Edge TPU Model Compiler

Best regards
igor
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Re: Coral Edge compiler tools

rogerdavis_mitr — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 13:09:31 GMT

I might not have been clear in my question. I'm not looking to write python or other scripts for exercising the TPU. I'm hoping to write C/C++ code on the platform.

All of the Coral documentation only addresses the Python interface.

When I try to find tools for the i.MX8M platform on the NXP site, I find lots of things including tools for compiling on the Cortex-M platform and documentation for rebuilding the Linux kernel, but not for compiling C/C++ programs targeting the A53 cores.

Under the category "IDE - Debug, Compile, and Build Tools" there are only patches and tools for the GPU. It is in this category that I would expect to find tools for compiling C programs on the A53.

Roger

Re: Coral Edge compiler tools

igorpadykov — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 01:30:50 GMT

Hi Roger

for A53 GCC 7.3 (GCC 7 Release Series- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

is used as described in attached Release Notes p.7.

It is used when images are generated as described in Yocto Guide.

Best regards
igor

Re: Coral Edge compiler tools

rogerdavis_mitr — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:10:45 GMT

Although the Coral Edge website said that a compiler was coming soon, the board that I have came with a version 6.3.0 compiler and the make utility (no support for cmake however). So I was able to SSH into the board and use the tools natively. The tools work fine and were fast.