Installation#

Choose your target platform.

L4T

Development Machine

To install the PVA SDK on x86-64 Ubuntu for cross-compilation targeting L4T:

wget https://edge.urm.nvidia.com/artifactory/sw-pva-generic-local/pva-sdk/pva-sdk-2.10-local_2.10.1_all.deb
sudo apt install -y ./pva-sdk-2.10-local_2.10.1_all.deb
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y pva-sdk-2.10 pva-sdk-2.10-vpu-dev-nvvpu
sudo apt remove --purge -y pva-sdk-local
rm -f pva-sdk-2.10-local_2.10.1_all.deb
sudo apt update

Linux Target

To install the cuPVA host runtime only on arm64 Linux targets:

wget https://edge.urm.nvidia.com/artifactory/sw-pva-generic-local/pva-sdk/pva-sdk-2.10-local_2.10.1_all.deb
sudo apt install -y ./pva-sdk-2.10-local_2.10.1_all.deb
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y pva-sdk-2.10-l4t
sudo apt remove --purge -y pva-sdk-local
rm -f pva-sdk-2.10-local_2.10.1_all.deb
sudo apt update
DriveOS

Obtain these files from your NVIDIA representative and place them in the same directory:

  • pva-sdk-2.10-local-driveos_2.10.1_all.deb

  • pva-sdk-2.10-local-asip_2.10.1_all.deb

Copy and run these commands from that directory:

sudo apt install -y ./pva-sdk-2.10-local-driveos_2.10.1_all.deb ./pva-sdk-2.10-local-asip_2.10.1_all.deb
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y pva-sdk-2.10 pva-sdk-2.10-vpu-dev-nvvpu
sudo apt remove --purge -y pva-sdk-local-driveos pva-sdk-local-asip
rm -f pva-sdk-2.10-local-driveos_2.10.1_all.deb pva-sdk-2.10-local-asip_2.10.1_all.deb
sudo apt update

This installs both ASIP Programmer and NVVPU development support. Configure the ASIP Programmer license as described in Using ASIP Programmer.

A supported QNX toolchain must be available to build for QNX; it is not distributed with the PVA SDK. The supported toolchain is SDP 8.0.4 for DRIVE OS 7.2.

No PVA SDK installation is required on the DriveOS target. The target image already contains the cuPVA runtime libraries.

Installation Paths#

PVA SDK files are installed to /opt/nvidia/pva-sdk-2.10. Inside this directory, the following subdirectories can be found:

Directory

Description

bin

Helper scripts

cmake

Build scripts

include

C headers

lib/<arch>/*

libraries for host and device

samples

complete sample applications

tools/*

tooling for building VPU code and debugging

If the user wishes to relocate the PVA SDK after installation, additional configuration may be required, for example registering the new location with CMake or the system dynamic linker. Optional ASIP Programmer installations also require preserving file timestamps; see Using ASIP Programmer.

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