# Release Note for Intel® Edge AI Performance Evaluation Toolkit 1.0

## Introduction

Intel® Edge AI Performance Evaluation Toolkit is an Edge AI customer enabling tool that has been designed to easily qualify and evaluate platform deep learning inference performance.

## New in This Release

This is the first release of Intel® Edge AI Performance Evaluation Toolkit.

## Known Limitations
The toolkit has been validated on Intel® platforms Tigerlake Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 Processor, Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7E Processor and Intel® Celeron® 6305E and OpenVINO™ toolkit v.2022.1.

## Included in This Release

It consists of scripts, configuration files, Intel Thermal Analysis Tool (TAT) workspace file and optimized OpenVINO INT8 IR model and brief explanation below,

* **OS setup scripts** - are used to setup container running environment on both Ubuntu Linux and Windows OS.

* **OpenVINO POT quantization scripts and configuration files** - are used to quantize OpenVINO FP32/FP16 IR models to INT8 by OpenVINO Post-Training Optimization Tool.

* **Benchmark scripts and Intel TAT workspace file** - are used to benchmark optimized INT8 IR model and monitor system frequency and thermal condition to qualify system performance.

## Hardware and Software Compatibility

Supported Intel Processors

* Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7E Processor
* Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 Processor
* Intel® Celeron® 6305E

Supported Operating Systems

* Windows 10 21H2 64 bit
* Ubuntu* 20.04 long-term support (LTS), 64-bit

## Where to Find This Release

Intel® Edge AI Performance Evaluation Toolkit can be found from https://github.com/intel/Intel-Edge-AI-Performance-Evaluation-Toolkit

## Helpful Link

[Intel® Power And Thermal Analysis Tool](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/secure/design/confidential/software-kits/kit-details.html?kitId=637737)  

[Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit Benchmark Results](https://docs.openvino.ai/latest/openvino_docs_performance_benchmarks_openvino.html#doxid-openvino-docs-performance-benchmarks-openvino)

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