The Chimera LLVM C++ compiler utilizes the industry state-of-the-art LLVM compiler infrastructure with a Quadric-specific code generation back-end that emits assembly code specific to the Chimera instruction set.
Introduction to the Chimera SDK
Chimera SDK Quick Start Guide
Chimera SDK Command Line Interface (CLI)
CGC API Reference
ChimeraJob API Doc
graphutils API Reference
Understanding Compile and Run Output Directory Structure
hw_config API Reference
Tutorial: Using SDK as a Library
Tutorials & Model Demos
Quantization Tutorials
Tutorial: Quantizing and Validating a Neural Network
QAT: EfficientNet Quantization Aware Training
Tutorial: Top1 and Top5 Classifier Validation
Tutorial: Asymmetric Quantization
Tutorial: VIT Quantization
Tutorial: Fixed Point Support on GPNPU
Custom Op Tutorials
Tutorial: Custom Operator Insertion into a Model
Tutorial: Measuring Performance of a Custom Op
Extracting and Profiling Backbones in Complex Networks
Custom Ops, a Practical Tutorial: Ultraface
Tutorial: Voxel Pooling
Tutorial: Grouped Query Attention with KV Caching Custom Operator
Tutorial: QWEN Decoder CGC Compilation
Tutorial: MatMulNBits Custom Op Replacement
SDK Tutorials
Model Demos
Model Demo: Llama-2 15M (Baby Llama-2)
Model Demo: QWEN3 8B End-to-End CGC and ISS Execution
Model Demo: QWEN3 Prefill All Decoders
Model Demo: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B End-to-End CGC and ISS Execution
Model Demo: QWEN3 Single Decoder
Model Demo: Qwen2.5-0.5B INT8 Quantization Pipeline
Model Demo: ConvNeXt Detection
Model Demo: QWEN3 Prefill Decoder Validation
Model Demo: ConvNeXt Segmentation
Model Demo: Classifiers Zoo
Model Demo: Detectors Zoo - MMDetection
Model Demo: Segmentors Zoo - MMSegmentation
Model Demo: Pose Estimators Zoo - MMPose
Model Demo: Detectors3D Zoo - MMDetection3D
MODEL Demo: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Zoo - MMOCR
Model Demo: YOLOv3 Object Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv4 Object Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv5 Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv5 Detection and Segmentation
Model Demo: YOLOR Detection
Model Demo: YOLOX End-to-End Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv7 Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv8 Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv8 Pose Estimation
Model Demo: YOLOP Detection and Segmentation
Model Demo: QAT Vision Transformer (ViT)
Model Demo: QAT Swin Transformer
Model Demo: Mediapipe Face Pipeline
Demo: DOOM Renderer on Chimera GPNPU
Model Demo: Mediapipe Hand Pipeline
Model Demo: Whisper Tiny (Encoder + Decoder)
Model Demo: L2CS Fine-Grained Gaze Estimation
Model Demo: ASVspoof2021 LA Anti-Spoofing (LFCC-LCNN-BiLSTM)
Model Demo: UNET Tumor Segmentation
Model Demo: DETR Encoder
Model Demo: FFNet Segmentation
Model Demo: Centernet Detection
Model Demo: RetinaNet End-to-End Detection
Model Demo: Blazepose Pose Estimation
Model Demo: Pose Resnet Human Pose Estimation
Model Demo: MaskRCNN Detection and Segmentation
Model Demo: Keypoint R-CNN
Model Demo: Faster R-CNN Detection
Model Demo: FCOS Detection
Model Demo: DDRNet Classificationls
Model Demo: PI0.5 End-to-End VLA Inference
Model Demo: BEVFormer End-to-End 3D Detection
Model Demo: SegFormer Semantic Segmentation
Model Demo: DETR Object Detection
Multicore Demo
Chimera Graph Compiler (CGC)
Overview of the CGC
Preparing a Model for Compilation
Accepted Model Formats - Quantized ONNX
Converting TFLite to ONNX
Handling Unsupported or Custom Operators
Tutorial: Quantizing and Validating a Neural Network
Tutorial: Custom Operator Insertion into a Model
Tutorial: Custom Operator Insertion for Operators without an ONNX Equivalent
Tutorial: Measuring Performance of a Custom Op
Graph Optimizations Performed by CGC
C++ Code Generation
ChimeraException Documentation
Chimera Compute Library (CCL) API
Overview of GPNPU Architecture
GPNPU Programming Model
Tutorial: Creating a Simple Kernel
Tutorial: Writing a Kernel in C++ API
Chimera LLVM C++ Compiler
Chimera Instruction Set Simulator (ISS)
Instruction Set Simulator (ISS)
Interpreting ISS Profiler Results
SystemC TLM Model
Advanced: Cycle Counts for Individual Instructions
Debugging
Chimera SDK Licensing Policy Documentation
Glossary
Data Access Patterns
Discrete Fourier Transforms
Elementary Math Functions
Image Processing
Channel Normalization
Color Space Conversions
Histograms
Image Filtering
Image Transformations
Image Resize
Linear Algebra
Processor Elementwise (PE) Operations
Neural Network Blocks
N-Dimensional Arrays
Python API Guide for Quadric SDK
Tilewise Operations
Chimera Software User GuideChimera LLVM C++ Compiler
Chimera LLVM C++ Compiler
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Chimera SDK
Chimera SDK Quick Start Guide
Chimera SDK Command Line Interface (CLI)
CGC API Reference
ChimeraJob API Doc
graphutils API Reference
Understanding Compile and Run Output Directory Structure
hw_config API Reference
Tutorial: Using SDK as a Library
Tutorials & Model Demos
Quantization Tutorials
Tutorial: Quantizing and Validating a Neural Network
QAT: EfficientNet Quantization Aware Training
Tutorial: Top1 and Top5 Classifier Validation
Tutorial: Asymmetric Quantization
Tutorial: VIT Quantization
Tutorial: Fixed Point Support on GPNPU
Custom Op Tutorials
Tutorial: Custom Operator Insertion into a Model
Tutorial: Measuring Performance of a Custom Op
Extracting and Profiling Backbones in Complex Networks
Custom Ops, a Practical Tutorial: Ultraface
Tutorial: Voxel Pooling
Tutorial: Grouped Query Attention with KV Caching Custom Operator
Tutorial: QWEN Decoder CGC Compilation
Tutorial: MatMulNBits Custom Op Replacement
SDK Tutorials
Model Demos
Model Demo: Llama-2 15M (Baby Llama-2)
Model Demo: QWEN3 8B End-to-End CGC and ISS Execution
Model Demo: QWEN3 Prefill All Decoders
Model Demo: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B End-to-End CGC and ISS Execution
Model Demo: QWEN3 Single Decoder
Model Demo: Qwen2.5-0.5B INT8 Quantization Pipeline
Model Demo: ConvNeXt Detection
Model Demo: QWEN3 Prefill Decoder Validation
Model Demo: ConvNeXt Segmentation
Model Demo: Classifiers Zoo
Model Demo: Detectors Zoo - MMDetection
Model Demo: Segmentors Zoo - MMSegmentation
Model Demo: Pose Estimators Zoo - MMPose
Model Demo: Detectors3D Zoo - MMDetection3D
MODEL Demo: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Zoo - MMOCR
Model Demo: YOLOv3 Object Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv4 Object Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv5 Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv5 Detection and Segmentation
Model Demo: YOLOR Detection
Model Demo: YOLOX End-to-End Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv7 Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv8 Detection
Model Demo: YOLOv8 Pose Estimation
Model Demo: YOLOP Detection and Segmentation
Model Demo: QAT Vision Transformer (ViT)
Model Demo: QAT Swin Transformer
Model Demo: Mediapipe Face Pipeline
Demo: DOOM Renderer on Chimera GPNPU
Model Demo: Mediapipe Hand Pipeline
Model Demo: Whisper Tiny (Encoder + Decoder)
Model Demo: L2CS Fine-Grained Gaze Estimation
Model Demo: ASVspoof2021 LA Anti-Spoofing (LFCC-LCNN-BiLSTM)
Model Demo: UNET Tumor Segmentation
Model Demo: DETR Encoder
Model Demo: FFNet Segmentation
Model Demo: Centernet Detection
Model Demo: RetinaNet End-to-End Detection
Model Demo: Blazepose Pose Estimation
Model Demo: Pose Resnet Human Pose Estimation
Model Demo: MaskRCNN Detection and Segmentation
Model Demo: Keypoint R-CNN
Model Demo: Faster R-CNN Detection
Model Demo: FCOS Detection
Model Demo: DDRNet Classificationls
Model Demo: PI0.5 End-to-End VLA Inference
Model Demo: BEVFormer End-to-End 3D Detection
Model Demo: SegFormer Semantic Segmentation
Model Demo: DETR Object Detection
Multicore Demo
Chimera Graph Compiler (CGC)
Overview of the CGC
Preparing a Model for Compilation
Accepted Model Formats - Quantized ONNX
Converting TFLite to ONNX
Handling Unsupported or Custom Operators
Tutorial: Quantizing and Validating a Neural Network
Tutorial: Custom Operator Insertion into a Model
Tutorial: Custom Operator Insertion for Operators without an ONNX Equivalent
Tutorial: Measuring Performance of a Custom Op
Graph Optimizations Performed by CGC
C++ Code Generation
ChimeraException Documentation
Chimera Compute Library (CCL) API
Overview of GPNPU Architecture
GPNPU Programming Model
Tutorial: Creating a Simple Kernel
Tutorial: Writing a Kernel in C++ API
Chimera LLVM C++ Compiler
Chimera Instruction Set Simulator (ISS)
Instruction Set Simulator (ISS)
Interpreting ISS Profiler Results
SystemC TLM Model
Advanced: Cycle Counts for Individual Instructions
Debugging
Chimera SDK Licensing Policy Documentation
Glossary
Data Access Patterns
Discrete Fourier Transforms
Elementary Math Functions
Image Processing
Channel Normalization
Color Space Conversions
Histograms
Image Filtering
Image Transformations
Image Resize
Linear Algebra
Processor Elementwise (PE) Operations
Neural Network Blocks
N-Dimensional Arrays
Python API Guide for Quadric SDK
Tilewise Operations
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