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How to compile custom ONNX/TFLite models for ARA240 (.dvm) ?(carrier being used i.MX95 FRDM)

I'm evaluating the ARA240 M.2 accelerator on the i.MX95 FRDM.

The runtime is working correctly:

• ARA240 is detected over PCIe.
• nnapp successfully runs the provided .dvm models.
• The Runtime SDK (rt-sdk-ara240) and Python DVAPI bindings are installed.

However, I would like to deploy my own MobileNet model, and I'm unable to find the toolchain required to compile models into the .dvm format.

My questions are:

• What is the supported workflow to compile a custom ONNX/TFLite model into .dvm for ARA240?
• Is the Ara2 Converter (or dvconvert/dvnc) publicly available, or is it distributed separately from the Runtime SDK?
• Is there an NXP-supported way to deploy custom CNN models (e.g. MobileNet) onto ARA240, that I am missing?

Any guidance or documentation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!