Zhouyi NPU Tutorials

Zhouyi Compass is the software development kit(SDK) for the Arm China Zhouyi NPU.

This Tutorials is based on this talk:

• video: https://aijishu.com/l/1110000000502780

• slide: https://aijishu.com/file/1090000000504140?articleId=1060000000503879.

Compass SDK Overview

We’ll start with a hardware architecture overview, then move to the AIPUBuilder overview, and finally, inspect the structure of our Compass IR.

• Tutorial 0: Background
• Tutorial 1: Zhouyi NPU Architecture
• Tutorial 2: AIPUBuilder Overview
  • Parser
  • GSim
  • OPT
  • Gbuilder
• Tutorial 3: Compass IR Overview

AIPUBuilder Quick Started

In this section, we can install the AIPUBuilder and run a demo quickly.

• Tutorial 4: AIPUBuilder Installation
  • Download whl
  • Pip install
• Tutorial 5: Run a demo MobileNetV3
  • 1. Download model
  • 2. Config
  • 3. Build
  • 4. Run AIPUModel

AIPUBuilder Python API

For developper, you can get a overview of python API provided in AIPUBuilder.

• Tutorial 6: AIPUBuilder Python Package Overview
  • AIPUBuilder Python package
  • AIPUBuilder Tools
  • AIPUBuilder Python API
• Tutorial 7: AIPUBuilder Python API
  • Tool Level API
  • Device API
  • Execution API
  • Operators(Ops) API
  • Bind API

AIPUBuilder Extend

In the final chapter, we will explore how to expand each module, which is part of the advanced topics. Readers are encouraged to read according to their needs.

• Tutorial 8: AIPUBuilder Plugin
  • AIPUBuilder Plugin Overview
  • Parser Plugin
  • OPT Plugin
  • GBuilder Plugin

You can refer to the Opensource link of ARM China NPU.

• Arm China ZhouYi NPU github link