drive

Connection to NVIDIA DRIVE hardware

Description

This object represents a connection from the MATLAB^® software to the NVIDIA^® DRIVE hardware. To create this object, use the drive function. To interact with the DRIVE hardware, use this object with the functions listed in Object Functions

Creation

drive

Properties

BoardName — Board name

board name

This property is read-only.

The name of the target DRIVE board, returned as a character vector.

Example: 'NVIDIA DRIVE'

Data Types: char

CUDAVersion — CUDA^® toolkit version

CUDA version

This property is read-only.

Version number of the CUDA toolkit installed on the DRIVE board, returned as a character vector.

Example: '9.0'

Data Types: char

cuDNNVersion — cuDNN library version

cuDNN version

This property is read-only.

Version number of the CUDA Deep Neural Network library (cuDNN) installed on the DRIVE board, returned as a character vector.

Example: '7.0'

Data Types: char

DeviceAddress — IP address or host name

IP address

This property is read-only.

The IP address or host name of the Ethernet port on the DRIVE board, returned as a character vector.

To use the host name, you must connect an Ethernet cable to the Ethernet port of the board. Use Linux commands to configure the hardware IP address and associate the host name with the hardware IP address.

Example: '169.254.0.2''gpucoder-drivepx2-1a'

Data Types: char

GpuInfo — GPU information

gpu information

This property is read-only.

Additional information on the GPU of the DRIVE board, returned as a 1-by-2 structure. To access this structure use objectName.GpuInfo. The structure contains the following fields:

Name	Description
Name	Name of the CUDA device.
Index	Index of the selected GPU device.
ComputeCapability	Computational capability of the CUDA device.
CUDADriverVersion	The CUDA device driver version on the board currently in use.
CUDAToolkitVersion	Version of the CUDA toolkit on the board.
MaxThreadsPerBlock	Maximum supported number of threads per block during CUDA kernel execution.
MaxSharedMemPerBlock	Maximum amount of shared memory that a thread block can use during CUDA kernel execution.
MaxThreadBlockSize	Maximum size in each dimension for thread block.
MaxGridSize	Maximum size of grid of thread blocks.
AvailableMemory	Total amount of memory (in bytes) available for data.
TotalConstMem	Total amount of constant memory (in bytes) available for data.
MultiprocessorCount	The number of vector processors present on the device.
TotalCUDACores	Total number of CUDA cores available on the target board.
MaxThreadsPerSM	Maximum number of threads per symmetric multiprocessor.

For example, a DRIVE TX2 board has the following values:

hwDRIVE.GpuInfo

ans = 

  struct with fields:

                    Name: 'NVIDIA Tegra X2'
                   Index: 0
       ComputeCapability: 6.2000
       CUDADriverVersion: 9
      CUDAToolkitVersion: 9
      MaxThreadsPerBlock: 1024
    MaxSharedMemPerBlock: 49152
      MaxThreadBlockSize: [1024 1024 64]
             MaxGridSize: [2.1475e+09 65535 65535]
         AvailableMemory: 8.2358e+09
           TotalConstMem: 65536
     MultiprocessorCount: 2
          TotalCUDACores: 256
         MaxThreadsPerSM: 2048

Data Types: struct

Port — SSH port number

port number

This property is read-only.

The SSH port number on the DRIVE board, returned as an integer.

Example: 22

Data Types: integer

TensorRTVersion — TensorRT library version

tensorRT version

This property is read-only.

Version number of the NVIDIA TensorRT library installed on the DRIVE board, returned as a character vector.

Example: '3.0'

Data Types: char

webcamlist — Available USB web cameras

webcam names

This property is read-only.

A list of the web cameras that are available, returned as a cell array of strings.

Example: {'Microsoft(R) LifeCam Cinema (TM)'}

Data Types: cell

workspaceDir — Code generation folder on target

codegen path

This property is read-only.

Path to the code generation (codegen) folder on the target platform for the most recent successful build. You can use this path to identify the location of the generated source files and the executables for 'exe' builds.

Example: '/home/ubuntu/myLiveEdgeDetect/MATLAB_ws/R2019a/home/gpucoder/myLiveEdgeDetection'

Data Types: char

Object Functions

getFile	Transfer file from NVIDIA hardware to host computer
putFile	Transfer file from host computer to target hardware
deleteFile	Delete file on target hardware
openShell	Open terminal on host computer to use Linux shell on NVIDIA hardware
system	Run command in Linux shell on NVIDIA hardware
getL4TVersion	Get the L4T version of the NVIDIA Jetson hardware
getPdkorSdkVersion	Get the current DriveWorks SDK installed on the DRIVE hardware
setupCodegenContext	Select the target hardware to build code for from multiple live connection objects
webcam	Create webcam object to acquire images from a webcam attached to the NVIDIA DRIVE or Jetson hardware
updatePeripheralInfo	Scan for and update the list of peripherals connected to the target hardware
getLinuxVersion	Get information about the Linux environment on the target
imageDisplay	Create imageDisplay object for displaying images on NVIDIA DRIVE or Jetson targets
getPILPort	Get the TCP/IP port number used by the PIL execution
getPILTimeout	Get the timeout value that PIL uses for reading data
setPILPort	Set the TCP/IP port number used by the PIL execution
setPILTimeout	Set the timeout value that PIL uses for reading data
killApplication	Kill an application on the NVIDIA target by name
killProcess	Kill a process on the NVIDIA target by ID
runApplication	Launch an application on the NVIDIA target by name
runExecutable	Launch an executable on the NVIDIA target by name
getDisplayEnvironment	Get the display environment value used for redirecting the display on the target
setDisplayEnvironment	Set the display environment value used for redirecting the display on the target

Examples

Connect to NVIDIA Hardware

This example shows you how to create a connection from the MATLAB software to the NVIDIA DRIVE hardware. The DRIVE hardware is connected to the same TCP/IP network as the host computer. This example uses the device address, user name, and password settings from the most recent successful connection to the DRIVE hardware.

Create a connection, hwDRIVE, from the MATLAB software to NVIDIA DRIVE hardware.

hwDRIVE = DRIVE

Checking for CUDA availability on the Target...
Checking for 'nvcc' in the target system path...
Checking for cuDNN library availability on the Target...
Checking for TensorRT library availability on the Target...
Checking for prerequisite libraries is complete.
Gathering hardware details...
Gathering hardware details is complete.
 Board name        : NVIDIA Drive
 CUDA Version      : 9.0
 cuDNN Version     : 7.0
 TensorRT Version  : 3.0
 Available Webcams : Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM)
 Available GPUs    : Graphics Device,NVIDIA Tegra X2

hwDRIVE = 

  drive with properties:

      DeviceAddress: 'gpucoder-drivepx2-1a'
               Port: 22
          BoardName: 'NVIDIA Drive'
        CUDAVersion: '9.0'
       cuDNNVersion: '7.0'
    TensorRTVersion: '3.0'
            GpuInfo: [1×2 struct]
         webcamlist: {'Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM)'}

The GPU Coder™ Support Package for NVIDIA GPUs establishes an SSH connection to the DRIVE hardware using the settings stored in memory. It checks for the CUDA toolkit, cuDNN, and TensorRT libraries on the target hardware and displays this information on the MATLAB Command Window. To set up the environment variables on the board for the compiler and the libraries, see Install and Setup Prerequisites for NVIDIA Boards.

To get the PDK/SDK software version on the DRIVE board, use the getPdkorSdkVersion() method of the DRIVE connection object.

getPdkorSdkVersion(hwDRIVE);

Drive SDK/PDK version is: 5.0.5.0-10129397

To start a PuTTY SSH terminal session on the DRIVE board, use the openShell() method of the DRIVE connection object.

openShell(hwDRIVE);

Using username "ubuntu".
Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.9.38-rt25-tegra aarch64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

594 packages can be updated.
321 updates are security updates.

ubuntu@gpucoder-drivepx2-1a:~$ ls
CamVid.avi  Documents  MATLAB  Pictures  segnetDemo  Videos
Desktop     Downloads  Music   Public    Templates
ubuntu@gpucoder-drivepx2-1a:~$

After logging into the Linux^® shell, you execute shell commands such as ls as shown.

To close the connection, use clear to remove hwDRIVE and any other connections that use hwDRIVE.

clear hwDRIVE;