QAIRT SDK Installation

QAIRT (Qualcomm® AI Runtime) SDK is a software package that integrates Qualcomm® AI software products, including Qualcomm® AI Engine Direct, Qualcomm® Neural Processing SDK, and Qualcomm® Genie. QAIRT provides developers with all the necessary tools for porting and deploying AI models on Qualcomm® hardware accelerators, as well as the runtime for running models on CPU, GPU, and NPU. Currently, QAIRT SDK supports model porting for Pytorch, Tensorflow, TFLite, and ONNX frameworks.

Supported inference hardware accelerator IPs: CPU, GPU, NPU.

QAIRT SDK Architecture

QAIRT SDK System Requirements

• 64-bit x86 processor
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Python 3.10

Download QAIRT SDK Package

• Download the v2.37.1.250807 QAIRT SDK from Qualcomm® Software Center

• Extract the QAIRT SDK

  X86 Linux PC

  unzip v2.37.1.250807.zip
  cd qairt/2.37.1.250807

Configure QAIRT Environment

Create Python Environment

QAIRT requires a Python 3.10 environment, which can be created using Anaconda

tip

• For Anaconda installation, refer to: Conda Installation

• For creating a conda Python environment, refer to: Create Environment with Specific Python Version

After installing Anaconda, create and activate a Python 3.10 environment using the terminal

X86 Linux PC

conda create -n qairt python=3.10
conda activate qairt

Configure QAIRT Environment Variables

X86 Linux PC

source bin/envsetup.sh

Check Dependencies

• Check library dependencies

  X86 Linux PC

  sudo ${QAIRT_SDK_ROOT}/bin/check-linux-dependency.sh

  Checking for libncurses5
  Checking for libgl1
  Checking for libgtk-3-dev
  Checking for libasound2-dev
  Checking for libnss3
  Checking for git
  Checking for nodejs
  Checking for npm
  Checking for libgbm-dev
  Checking for desktop-file-utils
  Checking for python3-dev
  Checking for python3-pip
  Checking for python3-setuptools
  Checking for clang
  Checking for libc++-dev
  Checking for libc++abi-dev
  Checking for flatbuffers-compiler
  Checking for libflatbuffers-dev
  Checking for rename
  =============================================================
  All Dependency Packages Found
  Done!!

• Check toolchain dependencies

  X86 Linux PC

  ${QAIRT_SDK_ROOT}/bin/envcheck -c

  Checking Clang Environment
  --------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Found clang++ at /usr/bin/clang++
  --------------------------------------------------------------

• Install Python library dependencies

  X86 Linux PC

  python3 "${QAIRT_SDK_ROOT}/bin/check-python-dependency"

Install AI Frameworks

Select the model framework libraries to install based on your model format. Installation of all frameworks is not required.

package name	version
tensorflow	2.10.1
tflite	2.3.0
torch	1.13.1
onnx	1.16.1
onnxruntime	1.17.1
onnxsimplifier	0.4.36

Complete SDK Documentation

QAIRT SDK integrates Qualcomm® AI Engine Direct (QNN), Qualcomm® Neural Processing SDK (SNPE), and Qualcomm® Genie (Genie). Their detailed documentation is located at:

Local Documentation

• qairt/2.37.1.250807/docs/QNN

• qairt/2.37.1.250807/docs/SNPE

• qairt/2.37.1.250807/docs/Genie

Online Documentation

• QNN

• SNPE

• Genie