Environment Setup

To develop and compile AI applications based on the CANN APIs, the development environment must meet the following software and hardware requirements:

  • Hardware: one x86 or Arm server.
  • Software: CANN Toolkit and CANN OPS.

To run the AI application, the operating environment must meet the following software and hardware requirements:

  • Hardware: Products equipped with Ascend AI processors (also called NPUs) must be available.
  • Software: In addition to the CANN Toolkit and CANN OPS packages, you also need to install the NPU firmware package and NPU driver package.

You can click Link to install the software package in the environment as prompted. For details, see CANN Software Installation.