Introduction

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TPUKernel is an underlying programming interface for Sophon TPU BM1684x. The interface can support the following operations:

1. Call special instructions (such as convolution, pooling, etc.) to accelerate deep learning functions.

2. Call general instructions (such as matrix multiplication, etc.) to accelerate various algorithms customized by users.

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The document contains the following:

1. Introduction to the chip architecture of BM1684x.

2. The API (Application Programming Interface, Packaged Instruction Set) of BM1684x.

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