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Would you happen to know if it requires additional code to support the Hexagon digital signal processor (DS)from Qualcomm Or is it automatic (kinda like switching between Tensorflow-CPU and Tensorflow-GPU)? I mainly work with Tensorflow on a PC so I'm not too familiar with the embedded variants of Tensorflow. Thanks!

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I don’t have any experience with that unfortunately. I’ve seen a couple of talks/demos/announcements about it and it sounds like it’s automatic, but I haven’t been able to find the SDK or any tutorial for it, so I’m not 100% sure. The Qualcomm speaker this morning said there would be more details about it later today but I don’t see anything on the Agenda [0]. Maybe Pete’s session at 12:40 will cover it?

[0]: https://events.withgoogle.com/tensorflow-dev-summit/agenda/#...

I'm not going to cover it in detail in my talk, but the code with some barebones documentation is available at https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...

One thing to note is that this isn't available on production phones yet, because we need a signed driver to run within Android. You should be able to run this on a Dragonboard 820 development board though, using the instructions in the README.

This is all very new though, so apologies in advance for any hiccups getting up and running. My email's petewarden at google.com if you are trying this and hit problems.

Thanks Tim and Pete!

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