As described in Introduction to Vitis Tools for Embedded System Designers, Adaptive data flow (ADF) graph applications targeting AI Engines can be developed as AI Engine components. These components can be built, simulated, analyzed, and debugged as a standalone component, and then added to a System project as part of an embedded system design, or for application acceleration in a data center. The creation of an AI Engine component is described in the AI Engine Tools and Flows User Guide (UG1076). Refer to that document for more information on building and analyzing the AI Engine graph application.
The use of an AI Engine component in a larger system design can be accomplished from the command line as described in this document under Building and Running the System, or in the Vitis unified IDE as described under Creating a System Project for Heterogeneous Computing.