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/** @mainpage Introduction

@tableofcontents

The Computer Vision and Machine Learning library is a set of functions optimised for both ARM CPUs and GPUs using SIMD technologies.

Several builds of the library are available using various configurations:
 - OS: Linux, Android or bare metal.
 - Architecture: armv7a (32bit) or arm64-v8a (64bit)
 - Technology: NEON / OpenCL / NEON and OpenCL
 - Debug / Asserts / Release: Use a build with asserts enabled to debug your application and enable extra validation. Once you are sure your application works as expected you can switch to a release build of the library for maximum performance.

@section S0_1_contact Contact / Support

Please email developer@arm.com

In order to facilitate the work of the support team please provide the build information of the library you are using. To get the version of the library you are using simply run:

    $ strings android-armv7a-cl-asserts/libarm_compute.so | grep arm_compute_version
    arm_compute_version=v16.12 Build options: {'embed_kernels': '1', 'opencl': '1', 'arch': 'armv7a', 'neon': '0', 'asserts': '1', 'debug': '0', 'os': 'android', 'Werror': '1'} Git hash=f51a545d4ea12a9059fe4e598a092f1fd06dc858

@section S1_file_organisation File organisation

This archive contains:
 - The arm_compute header and source files
 - The latest Khronos OpenCL 1.2 C headers from the <a href="https://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/">Khronos OpenCL registry</a>
 - The latest Khronos cl2.hpp from the <a href="https://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/">Khronos OpenCL registry</a> (API version 2.1 when this document was written)
 - The sources for a stub version of libOpenCL.so to help you build your application.
 - An examples folder containing a few examples to compile and link against the library.
 - A @ref utils folder containing headers with some boiler plate code used by the examples.
 - This documentation.

You should have the following file organisation:

	.
	├── arm_compute --> All the arm_compute headers
	│   ├── core
	│   │   ├── CL
	│   │   │   ├── CLKernelLibrary.h --> Manages all the OpenCL kernels compilation and caching, provides accessors for the OpenCL Context.
	│   │   │   ├── CLKernels.h --> Includes all the OpenCL kernels at once
	│   │   │   ├── CL specialisation of all the generic objects interfaces (ICLTensor, ICLImage, etc.)
	│   │   │   ├── kernels --> Folder containing all the OpenCL kernels
	│   │   │   │   └── CL*Kernel.h
	│   │   │   └── OpenCL.h --> Wrapper to configure the Khronos OpenCL C++ header
	│   │   ├── CPP
	│   │   │   ├── CPPKernels.h --> Includes all the CPP kernels at once
	│   │   │   └── kernels --> Folder containing all the CPP kernels
	│   │   │       └── CPP*Kernel.h
	│   │   ├── NEON
	│   │   │   ├── kernels --> Folder containing all the NEON kernels
	│   │   │   │   ├── arm64 --> Folder containing the interfaces for the assembly arm64 NEON kernels
	│   │   │   │   ├── arm32 --> Folder containing the interfaces for the assembly arm32 NEON kernels
	│   │   │   │   ├── assembly --> Folder containing the NEON assembly routines.
	│   │   │   │   └── NE*Kernel.h
	│   │   │   └── NEKernels.h --> Includes all the NEON kernels at once
	│   │   ├── All common basic types (Types.h, Window, Coordinates, Iterator, etc.)
	│   │   ├── All generic objects interfaces (ITensor, IImage, etc.)
	│   │   └── Objects metadata classes (ImageInfo, TensorInfo, MultiImageInfo)
	│   ├── graph
	│   │   ├── CL --> OpenCL specific operations
	│   │   │   └── CLMap.h / CLUnmap.h
	│   │   ├── nodes
	│   │   │   └── The various nodes supported by the graph API
	│   │   ├── Nodes.h --> Includes all the Graph nodes at once.
	│   │   └── Graph objects ( INode, ITensorAccessor, Graph, etc.)
	│   └── runtime
	│       ├── CL
	│       │   ├── CL objects & allocators (CLArray, CLImage, CLTensor, etc.)
	│       │   ├── functions --> Folder containing all the OpenCL functions
	│       │   │   └── CL*.h
	│       │   ├── CLScheduler.h --> Interface to enqueue OpenCL kernels and get/set the OpenCL CommandQueue and ICLTuner.
	│       │   └── CLFunctions.h --> Includes all the OpenCL functions at once
	│       ├── CPP
	│       │   ├── CPPKernels.h --> Includes all the CPP functions at once.
	│       │   └── CPPScheduler.h --> Basic pool of threads to execute CPP/NEON code on several cores in parallel
	│       ├── NEON
	│       │   ├── functions --> Folder containing all the NEON functions
	│       │   │   └── NE*.h
	│       │   └── NEFunctions.h --> Includes all the NEON functions at once
	│       ├── OMP
	│       │   └── OMPScheduler.h --> OpenMP scheduler (Alternative to the CPPScheduler)
	│       ├── Memory manager files (LifetimeManager, PoolManager, etc.)
	│       └── Basic implementations of the generic object interfaces (Array, Image, Tensor, etc.)
	├── documentation
	│   ├── index.xhtml
	│   └── ...
	├── documentation.xhtml -> documentation/index.xhtml
	├── examples
	│   ├── cl_convolution.cpp
	│   ├── cl_events.cpp
	│   ├── graph_lenet.cpp
	│   ├── neoncl_scale_median_gaussian.cpp
	│   ├── neon_cnn.cpp
	│   ├── neon_copy_objects.cpp
	│   ├── neon_convolution.cpp
	│   └── neon_scale.cpp
	├── include
	│   ├── CL
	│   │   └── Khronos OpenCL C headers and C++ wrapper
	│   ├── half --> FP16 library available from http://half.sourceforge.net
	│   └── libnpy --> Library to load / write npy buffers, available from https://github.com/llohse/libnpy
	├── opencl-1.2-stubs
	│   └── opencl_stubs.c
	├── scripts
	│   ├── caffe_data_extractor.py --> Basic script to export weights from Caffe to npy files
	│   └── tensorflow_data_extractor.py --> Basic script to export weights from Tensor Flow to npy files
	├── src
	│   ├── core
	│   │   └── ... (Same structure as headers)
	│   │       └── CL
	│   │           └── cl_kernels --> All the OpenCL kernels
	│   ├── graph
	│   │   └── ... (Same structure as headers)
	│   └── runtime
	│       └── ... (Same structure as headers)
	├── support
	│   └── Various headers to work around toolchains / platform issues.
	├── tests
	│   ├── All test related files shared between validation and benchmark
	│   ├── CL --> OpenCL accessors
	│   ├── NEON --> NEON accessors
	│   ├── benchmark --> Sources for benchmarking
	│   │   ├── Benchmark specific files
	│   │   ├── CL --> OpenCL benchmarking tests
	│   │   └── NEON --> NEON benchmarking tests
	│   ├── datasets
	│   │   └── Datasets for all the validation / benchmark tests, layer configurations for various networks, etc.
	│   ├── framework
	│   │   └── Boiler plate code for both validation and benchmark test suites (Command line parsers, instruments, output loggers, etc.)
	│   ├── networks
	│   │   └── Examples of how to instantiate networks.
	│   ├── validation --> Sources for validation
	│   │   ├── Validation specific files
	│   │   ├── CL --> OpenCL validation tests
	│   │   ├── CPP --> C++ reference implementations
	│   │   ├── fixtures
	│   │   │   └── Fixtures to initialise and run the runtime Functions.
	│   │   └── NEON --> NEON validation tests
	│   └── dataset --> Datasets defining common sets of input parameters
	└── utils --> Boiler plate code used by examples
	    └── Utils.h

@section S2_versions_changelog Release versions and changelog

@subsection S2_1_versions Release versions

All releases are numbered vYY.MM Where YY are the last two digits of the year, and MM the month number.
If there is more than one release in a month then an extra sequential number is appended at the end:

	v17.03 (First release of March 2017)
	v17.03.1 (Second release of March 2017)
	v17.04 (First release of April 2017)

@note We're aiming at releasing one major public release with new features per quarter. All releases in between will only contain bug fixes.

@subsection S2_2_changelog Changelog

v17.09 Public major release
 - Experimental Graph support: initial implementation of a simple stream API to easily chain machine learning layers.
 - Memory Manager (@ref arm_compute::BlobLifetimeManager, @ref arm_compute::BlobMemoryPool, @ref arm_compute::ILifetimeManager, @ref arm_compute::IMemoryGroup, @ref arm_compute::IMemoryManager, @ref arm_compute::IMemoryPool, @ref arm_compute::IPoolManager, @ref arm_compute::MemoryManagerOnDemand, @ref arm_compute::PoolManager)
 - New validation and benchmark frameworks (Boost and Google frameworks replaced by homemade framework).
 - Most machine learning functions support both fixed point 8 and 16 bit (QS8, QS16) for both NEON and OpenCL.
 - New NEON kernels / functions:
    - @ref arm_compute::NEGEMMAssemblyBaseKernel @ref arm_compute::NEGEMMAArch64Kernel
    - @ref arm_compute::NEDequantizationLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEDequantizationLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::NEFloorKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEFloor
    - @ref arm_compute::NEL2NormalizeKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEL2Normalize
    - @ref arm_compute::NEQuantizationLayerKernel @ref arm_compute::NEMinMaxLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEQuantizationLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::NEROIPoolingLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEROIPoolingLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::NEReductionOperationKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEReductionOperation
    - @ref arm_compute::NEReshapeLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEReshapeLayer

 - New OpenCL kernels / functions:
    - @ref arm_compute::CLDepthwiseConvolution3x3Kernel @ref arm_compute::CLDepthwiseIm2ColKernel @ref arm_compute::CLDepthwiseVectorToTensorKernel @ref arm_compute::CLDepthwiseWeightsReshapeKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLDepthwiseConvolution3x3 @ref arm_compute::CLDepthwiseConvolution @ref arm_compute::CLDepthwiseSeparableConvolutionLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::CLDequantizationLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLDequantizationLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::CLDirectConvolutionLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLDirectConvolutionLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::CLFlattenLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::CLFloorKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLFloor
    - @ref arm_compute::CLGEMMTranspose1xW
    - @ref arm_compute::CLGEMMMatrixVectorMultiplyKernel
    - @ref arm_compute::CLL2NormalizeKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLL2Normalize
    - @ref arm_compute::CLQuantizationLayerKernel @ref arm_compute::CLMinMaxLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLQuantizationLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::CLROIPoolingLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLROIPoolingLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::CLReductionOperationKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLReductionOperation
    - @ref arm_compute::CLReshapeLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLReshapeLayer

v17.06 Public major release
 - Various bug fixes
 - Added support for fixed point 8 bit (QS8) to the various NEON machine learning kernels.
 - Added unit tests and benchmarks (AlexNet, LeNet)
 - Added support for sub tensors.
 - Added infrastructure to provide GPU specific optimisation for some OpenCL kernels.
 - Added @ref arm_compute::OMPScheduler (OpenMP) scheduler for NEON
 - Added @ref arm_compute::SingleThreadScheduler scheduler for NEON (For bare metal)
 - User can specify his own scheduler by implementing the @ref arm_compute::IScheduler interface.
 - New OpenCL kernels / functions:
    - @ref arm_compute::CLBatchNormalizationLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLBatchNormalizationLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::CLDepthConcatenateKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLDepthConcatenate
    - @ref arm_compute::CLHOGOrientationBinningKernel @ref arm_compute::CLHOGBlockNormalizationKernel, @ref arm_compute::CLHOGDetectorKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLHOGDescriptor @ref arm_compute::CLHOGDetector @ref arm_compute::CLHOGGradient @ref arm_compute::CLHOGMultiDetection
    - @ref arm_compute::CLLocallyConnectedMatrixMultiplyKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLLocallyConnectedLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::CLWeightsReshapeKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLConvolutionLayerReshapeWeights
 - New C++ kernels:
    - @ref arm_compute::CPPDetectionWindowNonMaximaSuppressionKernel
 - New NEON kernels / functions:
    - @ref arm_compute::NEBatchNormalizationLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEBatchNormalizationLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::NEDepthConcatenateKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEDepthConcatenate
    - @ref arm_compute::NEDirectConvolutionLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEDirectConvolutionLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::NELocallyConnectedMatrixMultiplyKernel / @ref arm_compute::NELocallyConnectedLayer
    - @ref arm_compute::NEWeightsReshapeKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEConvolutionLayerReshapeWeights

v17.05 Public bug fixes release
 - Various bug fixes
 - Remaining of the functions ported to use accurate padding.
 - Library does not link against OpenCL anymore (It uses dlopen / dlsym at runtime instead to determine whether or not OpenCL is available).
 - Added "free" method to allocator.
 - Minimum version of g++ required for armv7 Linux changed from 4.8 to 4.9

v17.04 Public bug fixes release

 The following functions have been ported to use the new accurate padding:
 -  @ref arm_compute::CLColorConvertKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::CLEdgeNonMaxSuppressionKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::CLEdgeTraceKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::CLGaussianPyramidHorKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::CLGaussianPyramidVertKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::CLGradientKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NEChannelCombineKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NEFillArrayKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NEGaussianPyramidHorKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NEGaussianPyramidVertKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NEHarrisScoreFP16Kernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NEHarrisScoreKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NEHOGDetectorKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NELogits1DMaxKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NELogits1DShiftExpSumKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NELogits1DNormKernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NENonMaximaSuppression3x3FP16Kernel
 -  @ref arm_compute::NENonMaximaSuppression3x3Kernel

v17.03.1 First Major public release of the sources
 - Renamed the library to arm_compute
 - New CPP target introduced for C++ kernels shared between NEON and CL functions.
 - New padding calculation interface introduced and ported most kernels / functions to use it.
 - New OpenCL kernels / functions:
   - @ref arm_compute::CLGEMMLowpMatrixMultiplyKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLGEMMLowp
 - New NEON kernels / functions:
   - @ref arm_compute::NENormalizationLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::NENormalizationLayer
   - @ref arm_compute::NETransposeKernel / @ref arm_compute::NETranspose
   - @ref arm_compute::NELogits1DMaxKernel, @ref arm_compute::NELogits1DShiftExpSumKernel, @ref arm_compute::NELogits1DNormKernel / @ref arm_compute::NESoftmaxLayer
   - @ref arm_compute::NEIm2ColKernel, @ref arm_compute::NECol2ImKernel, arm_compute::NEConvolutionLayerWeightsReshapeKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEConvolutionLayer
   - @ref arm_compute::NEGEMMMatrixAccumulateBiasesKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEFullyConnectedLayer
   - @ref arm_compute::NEGEMMLowpMatrixMultiplyKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEGEMMLowp

v17.03 Sources preview
 - New OpenCL kernels / functions:
   - @ref arm_compute::CLGradientKernel, @ref arm_compute::CLEdgeNonMaxSuppressionKernel, @ref arm_compute::CLEdgeTraceKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLCannyEdge
   - GEMM refactoring + FP16 support: @ref arm_compute::CLGEMMInterleave4x4Kernel, @ref arm_compute::CLGEMMTranspose1xWKernel, @ref arm_compute::CLGEMMMatrixMultiplyKernel, @ref arm_compute::CLGEMMMatrixAdditionKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLGEMM
   - @ref arm_compute::CLGEMMMatrixAccumulateBiasesKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLFullyConnectedLayer
   - @ref arm_compute::CLTransposeKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLTranspose
   - @ref arm_compute::CLLKTrackerInitKernel, @ref arm_compute::CLLKTrackerStage0Kernel, @ref arm_compute::CLLKTrackerStage1Kernel, @ref arm_compute::CLLKTrackerFinalizeKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLOpticalFlow
   - @ref arm_compute::CLNormalizationLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLNormalizationLayer
   - @ref arm_compute::CLLaplacianPyramid, @ref arm_compute::CLLaplacianReconstruct
 - New NEON kernels / functions:
   - @ref arm_compute::NEActivationLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEActivationLayer
   - GEMM refactoring + FP16 support (Requires armv8.2 CPU): @ref arm_compute::NEGEMMInterleave4x4Kernel, @ref arm_compute::NEGEMMTranspose1xWKernel, @ref arm_compute::NEGEMMMatrixMultiplyKernel, @ref arm_compute::NEGEMMMatrixAdditionKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEGEMM
   - @ref arm_compute::NEPoolingLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEPoolingLayer

v17.02.1 Sources preview
 - New OpenCL kernels / functions:
   - @ref arm_compute::CLLogits1DMaxKernel, @ref arm_compute::CLLogits1DShiftExpSumKernel, @ref arm_compute::CLLogits1DNormKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLSoftmaxLayer
   - @ref arm_compute::CLPoolingLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLPoolingLayer
   - @ref arm_compute::CLIm2ColKernel, @ref arm_compute::CLCol2ImKernel, arm_compute::CLConvolutionLayerWeightsReshapeKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLConvolutionLayer
   - @ref arm_compute::CLRemapKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLRemap
   - @ref arm_compute::CLGaussianPyramidHorKernel, @ref arm_compute::CLGaussianPyramidVertKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLGaussianPyramid, @ref arm_compute::CLGaussianPyramidHalf, @ref arm_compute::CLGaussianPyramidOrb
   - @ref arm_compute::CLMinMaxKernel, @ref arm_compute::CLMinMaxLocationKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLMinMaxLocation
   - @ref arm_compute::CLNonLinearFilterKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLNonLinearFilter
 - New NEON FP16 kernels (Requires armv8.2 CPU)
   - @ref arm_compute::NEAccumulateWeightedFP16Kernel
   - @ref arm_compute::NEBox3x3FP16Kernel
   - @ref arm_compute::NENonMaximaSuppression3x3FP16Kernel

v17.02 Sources preview
 - New OpenCL kernels / functions:
   - @ref arm_compute::CLActivationLayerKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLActivationLayer
   - @ref arm_compute::CLChannelCombineKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLChannelCombine
   - @ref arm_compute::CLDerivativeKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLChannelExtract
   - @ref arm_compute::CLFastCornersKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLFastCorners
   - @ref arm_compute::CLMeanStdDevKernel / @ref arm_compute::CLMeanStdDev
 - New NEON kernels / functions:
   - HOG / SVM: @ref arm_compute::NEHOGOrientationBinningKernel, @ref arm_compute::NEHOGBlockNormalizationKernel, @ref arm_compute::NEHOGDetectorKernel, arm_compute::NEHOGNonMaximaSuppressionKernel / @ref arm_compute::NEHOGDescriptor, @ref arm_compute::NEHOGDetector, @ref arm_compute::NEHOGGradient, @ref arm_compute::NEHOGMultiDetection
   - @ref arm_compute::NENonLinearFilterKernel / @ref arm_compute::NENonLinearFilter
 - Introduced a CLScheduler to manage the default context and command queue used by the runtime library and create synchronisation events.
 - Switched all the kernels / functions to use tensors instead of images.
 - Updated documentation to include instructions to build the library from sources.

v16.12 Binary preview release
 - Original release

@section S3_how_to_build How to build the library and the examples

@subsection S3_1_build_options Build options

scons 2.3 or above is required to build the library.
To see the build options available simply run ```scons -h```:

	debug: Debug (yes|no)
		default: False
		actual: False

	asserts: Enable asserts (this flag is forced to 1 for debug=1) (yes|no)
		default: False
		actual: False

	arch: Target Architecture (armv7a|arm64-v8a|arm64-v8.2-a|x86_32|x86_64)
		default: armv7a
		actual: armv7a

	os: Target OS (linux|android|bare_metal)
		default: linux
		actual: linux

	build: Build type (native|cross_compile)
		default: cross_compile
		actual: cross_compile

	examples: Build example programs (yes|no)
		default: True
		actual: True

	Werror: Enable/disable the -Werror compilation flag (yes|no)
		default: True
		actual: True

	opencl: Enable OpenCL support (yes|no)
		default: True
		actual: True

	neon: Enable Neon support (yes|no)
		default: False
		actual: False

	embed_kernels: Embed OpenCL kernels in library binary (yes|no)
		default: False
		actual: False

	set_soname: Set the library's soname and shlibversion (requires SCons 2.4 or above) (yes|no)
		default: False
		actual: False

	openmp: Enable OpenMP backend (yes|no)
		default: False
		actual: False

	cppthreads: Enable C++11 threads backend (yes|no)
		default: True
		actual: True

	build_dir: Specify sub-folder for the build ( /path/to/build_dir )
		default: .
		actual: .

	extra_cxx_flags: Extra CXX flags to be appended to the build command
		default:
		actual:

	pmu: Enable PMU counters (yes|no)
		default: False
		actual: False

	mali: Enable Mali hardware counters (yes|no)
		default: False
		actual: False

	validation_tests: Build validation test programs (yes|no)
		default: False
		actual: False

	benchmark_tests: Build benchmark test programs (yes|no)
		default: False
		actual: False

@b debug / @b asserts:
 - With debug=1 asserts are enabled, and the library is built with symbols and no optimisations enabled.
 - With debug=0 and asserts=1: Optimisations are enabled and symbols are removed, however all the asserts are still present (This is about 20% slower than the release build)
 - With debug=0 and asserts=0: All optimisations are enable and no validation is performed, if the application misuses the library it is likely to result in a crash. (Only use this mode once you are sure your application is working as expected).

@b arch: The x86_32 and x86_64 targets can only be used with neon=0 and opencl=1.

@b os: Choose the operating system you are targeting: Linux, Android or bare metal.
@note bare metal can only be used for NEON (not OpenCL), only static libraries get built and NEON's multi-threading support is disabled.

@b build: you can either build directly on your device (native) or cross compile from your desktop machine (cross-compile). In both cases make sure the compiler is available in your path.

@note If you want to natively compile for 32bit on a 64bit ARM device running a 64bit OS then you will have to use cross-compile too.

@b Werror: If you are compiling using the same toolchains as the ones used in this guide then there shouldn't be any warning and therefore you should be able to keep Werror=1. If with a different compiler version the library fails to build because of warnings interpreted as errors then, if you are sure the warnings are not important, you might want to try to build with Werror=0 (But please do report the issue either on Github or by an email to developer@arm.com so that the issue can be addressed).

@b opencl / @b neon: Choose which SIMD technology you want to target. (NEON for ARM Cortex-A CPUs or OpenCL for ARM Mali GPUs)

@b embed_kernels: For OpenCL only: set embed_kernels=1 if you want the OpenCL kernels to be built in the library's binaries instead of being read from separate ".cl" files. If embed_kernels is set to 0 then the application can set the path to the folder containing the OpenCL kernel files by calling CLKernelLibrary::init(). By default the path is set to "./cl_kernels".

@b set_soname: Do you want to build the versioned version of the library ?

If enabled the library will contain a SONAME and SHLIBVERSION and some symlinks will automatically be created between the objects.
Example:
  libarm_compute_core.so -> libarm_compute_core.so.1.0.0
  libarm_compute_core.so.1 -> libarm_compute_core.so.1.0.0
  libarm_compute_core.so.1.0.0

@note This options is disabled by default as it requires SCons version 2.4 or above.

@b extra_cxx_flags: Custom CXX flags which will be appended to the end of the build command.

@b build_dir: Build the library in a subfolder of the "build" folder. (Allows to build several configurations in parallel).

@b examples: Build or not the examples

@b validation_tests: Enable the build of the validation suite.

@b benchmark_tests: Enable the build of the benchmark tests

@b pmu: Enable the PMU cycle counter to measure execution time in benchmark tests. (Your device needs to support it)

@b mali: Enable the collection of Mali hardware counters to measure execution time in benchmark tests. (Your device needs to have a Mali driver that supports it)

@b openmp Build in the OpenMP scheduler for NEON.

@note Only works when building with g++ not clang++

@b cppthreads Build in the C++11 scheduler for NEON.

@sa arm_compute::Scheduler::set

@subsection S3_2_linux Building for Linux

@subsubsection S3_2_1_library How to build the library ?

For Linux, the library was successfully built and tested using the following Linaro GCC toolchain:

 - gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.07_linux
 - gcc-linaro-4.9-2016.02-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu
 - gcc-linaro-6.3.1-2017.02-i686_aarch64-linux-gnu

@note If you are building with opencl=1 then scons will expect to find libOpenCL.so either in the current directory or in "build" (See the section below if you need a stub OpenCL library to link against)

To cross-compile the library in debug mode, with NEON only support, for Linux 32bit:

	scons Werror=1 -j8 debug=1 neon=1 opencl=0 os=linux arch=armv7a

To cross-compile the library in asserts mode, with OpenCL only support, for Linux 64bit:

	scons Werror=1 -j8 debug=0 asserts=1 neon=0 opencl=1 embed_kernels=1 os=linux arch=arm64-v8a

You can also compile the library natively on an ARM device by using <b>build=native</b>:

	scons Werror=1 -j8 debug=0 neon=1 opencl=0 os=linux arch=arm64-v8a build=native
	scons Werror=1 -j8 debug=0 neon=1 opencl=0 os=linux arch=armv7a build=native

@note g++ for ARM is mono-arch, therefore if you want to compile for Linux 32bit on a Linux 64bit platform you will have to use a cross compiler.

For example on a 64bit Debian based system you would have to install <b>g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf</b>

	apt-get install g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf

Then run

	scons Werror=1 -j8 debug=0 neon=1 opencl=0 os=linux arch=armv7a build=cross_compile

or simply remove the build parameter as build=cross_compile is the default value:

	scons Werror=1 -j8 debug=0 neon=1 opencl=0 os=linux arch=armv7a

@attention To cross compile with opencl=1 you need to make sure to have a version of libOpenCL matching your target architecture.

@subsubsection S3_2_2_examples How to manually build the examples ?

The examples get automatically built by scons as part of the build process of the library described above. This section just describes how you can build and link your own application against our library.

@note The following command lines assume the arm_compute and libOpenCL binaries are present in the current directory or in the system library path. If this is not the case you can specify the location of the pre-built library with the compiler option -L. When building the OpenCL example the commands below assume that the CL headers are located in the include folder where the command is executed.

To cross compile a NEON example for Linux 32bit:

	arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ examples/neon_convolution.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -mfpu=neon -L. -larm_compute -larm_compute_core -o neon_convolution

To cross compile a NEON example for Linux 64bit:

	aarch64-linux-gnu-g++ examples/neon_convolution.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -L. -larm_compute -larm_compute_core -o neon_convolution

(notice the only difference with the 32 bit command is that we don't need the -mfpu option and the compiler's name is different)

To cross compile an OpenCL example for Linux 32bit:

	arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ examples/cl_convolution.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -mfpu=neon -L. -larm_compute -larm_compute_core -lOpenCL -o cl_convolution -DARM_COMPUTE_CL

To cross compile an OpenCL example for Linux 64bit:

	aarch64-linux-gnu-g++ examples/cl_convolution.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -L. -larm_compute -larm_compute_core -lOpenCL -o cl_convolution -DARM_COMPUTE_CL

(notice the only difference with the 32 bit command is that we don't need the -mfpu option and the compiler's name is different)

To cross compile the examples with the Graph API, such as graph_lenet.cpp, you need to link the library arm_compute_graph.so also.
(notice the compute library has to be built with both neon and opencl enabled - neon=1 and opencl=1)

i.e. to cross compile the "graph_lenet" example for Linux 32bit:

	arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ examples/graph_lenet.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -mfpu=neon -L. -larm_compute_graph -larm_compute -larm_compute_core -lOpenCL -o graph_lenet -DARM_COMPUTE_CL

i.e. to cross compile the "graph_lenet" example for Linux 64bit:

	aarch64-linux-gnu-g++ examples/graph_lenet.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -L. -larm_compute_graph -larm_compute -larm_compute_core -lOpenCL -o graph_lenet -DARM_COMPUTE_CL

(notice the only difference with the 32 bit command is that we don't need the -mfpu option and the compiler's name is different)

To compile natively (i.e directly on an ARM device) for NEON for Linux 32bit:

	g++ examples/neon_convolution.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -mfpu=neon -larm_compute -larm_compute_core -o neon_convolution

To compile natively (i.e directly on an ARM device) for NEON for Linux 64bit:

	g++ examples/neon_convolution.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -larm_compute -larm_compute_core -o neon_convolution

(notice the only difference with the 32 bit command is that we don't need the -mfpu option)

To compile natively (i.e directly on an ARM device) for OpenCL for Linux 32bit or Linux 64bit:

	g++ examples/cl_convolution.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -larm_compute -larm_compute_core -lOpenCL -o cl_convolution -DARM_COMPUTE_CL

To compile natively (i.e directly on an ARM device) the examples with the Graph API, such as graph_lenet.cpp, you need to link the library arm_compute_graph.so also.
(notice the compute library has to be built with both neon and opencl enabled - neon=1 and opencl=1)

i.e. to cross compile the "graph_lenet" example for Linux 32bit:

	g++ examples/graph_lenet.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -mfpu=neon -L. -larm_compute_graph -larm_compute -larm_compute_core -lOpenCL -o graph_lenet -DARM_COMPUTE_CL

i.e. to cross compile the "graph_lenet" example for Linux 64bit:

	g++ examples/graph_lenet.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 L. -larm_compute_graph -larm_compute -larm_compute_core -lOpenCL -o graph_lenet -DARM_COMPUTE_CL

(notice the only difference with the 32 bit command is that we don't need the -mfpu option)

@note These two commands assume libarm_compute.so is available in your library path, if not add the path to it using -L

To run the built executable simply run:

	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=build ./neon_convolution

or

	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=build ./cl_convolution

@note If you built the library with support for both OpenCL and NEON you will need to link against OpenCL even if your application only uses NEON.

@subsection S3_3_android Building for Android

For Android, the library was successfully built and tested using Google's standalone toolchains:
 - arm-linux-androideabi-4.9 for armv7a (clang++)
 - aarch64-linux-android-4.9 for arm64-v8a (g++)

Here is a guide to <a href="https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/standalone_toolchain.html">create your Android standalone toolchains from the NDK</a>

- Download the NDK r14 from here: https://developer.android.com/ndk/downloads/index.html
- Make sure you have Python 2 installed on your machine.
- Generate the 32 and/or 64 toolchains by running the following commands:


	$NDK/build/tools/make_standalone_toolchain.py --arch arm64 --install-dir $MY_TOOLCHAINS/aarch64-linux-android-4.9 --stl gnustl
	$NDK/build/tools/make_standalone_toolchain.py --arch arm --install-dir $MY_TOOLCHAINS/arm-linux-androideabi-4.9 --stl gnustl

@attention Due to some NDK issues make sure you use g++ & gnustl for aarch64 and clang++ & gnustl for armv7

@note Make sure to add the toolchains to your PATH: export PATH=$PATH:$MY_TOOLCHAINS/aarch64-linux-android-4.9/bin:$MY_TOOLCHAINS/arm-linux-androideabi-4.9/bin

@subsubsection S3_3_1_library How to build the library ?

@note If you are building with opencl=1 then scons will expect to find libOpenCL.so either in the current directory or in "build" (See the section below if you need a stub OpenCL library to link against)

To cross-compile the library in debug mode, with NEON only support, for Android 32bit:

	CXX=clang++ CC=clang scons Werror=1 -j8 debug=1 neon=1 opencl=0 os=android arch=armv7a

To cross-compile the library in asserts mode, with OpenCL only support, for Android 64bit:

	scons Werror=1 -j8 debug=0 asserts=1 neon=0 opencl=1 embed_kernels=1 os=android arch=arm64-v8a

@subsubsection S3_3_2_examples How to manually build the examples ?

The examples get automatically built by scons as part of the build process of the library described above. This section just describes how you can build and link your own application against our library.

@note The following command lines assume the arm_compute and libOpenCL binaries are present in the current directory or in the system library path. If this is not the case you can specify the location of the pre-built library with the compiler option -L. When building the OpenCL example the commands below assume that the CL headers are located in the include folder where the command is executed.

Once you've got your Android standalone toolchain built and added to your path you can do the following:

To cross compile a NEON example:

	#32 bit:
	arm-linux-androideabi-clang++ examples/neon_convolution.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -larm_compute-static -larm_compute_core-static -L. -o neon_convolution_arm -static-libstdc++ -pie
	#64 bit:
	aarch64-linux-android-g++ examples/neon_convolution.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -larm_compute-static -larm_compute_core-static -L. -o neon_convolution_aarch64 -static-libstdc++ -pie

To cross compile an OpenCL example:

	#32 bit:
	arm-linux-androideabi-clang++ examples/cl_convolution.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -larm_compute-static -larm_compute_core-static -L. -o cl_convolution_arm -static-libstdc++ -pie -lOpenCL -DARM_COMPUTE_CL
	#64 bit:
	aarch64-linux-android-g++ examples/cl_convolution.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -larm_compute-static -larm_compute_core-static -L. -o cl_convolution_aarch64 -static-libstdc++ -pie -lOpenCL -DARM_COMPUTE_CL

To cross compile the examples with the Graph API, such as graph_lenet.cpp, you need to link the library arm_compute_graph also.
(notice the compute library has to be built with both neon and opencl enabled - neon=1 and opencl=1)

	#32 bit:
	arm-linux-androideabi-clang++ examples/graph_lenet.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -larm_compute_graph-static -larm_compute-static -larm_compute_core-static -L. -o graph_lenet_arm -static-libstdc++ -pie -lOpenCL -DARM_COMPUTE_CL
	#64 bit:
	aarch64-linux-android-g++ examples/graph_lenet.cpp utils/Utils.cpp -I. -Iinclude -std=c++11 -larm_compute_graph-static -larm_compute-static -larm_compute_core-static -L. -o graph_lenet_aarch64 -static-libstdc++ -pie -lOpenCL -DARM_COMPUTE_CL

@note Due to some issues in older versions of the Mali OpenCL DDK (<= r13p0), we recommend to link arm_compute statically on Android.

Then you need to do is upload the executable and the shared library to the device using ADB:

	adb push neon_convolution_arm /data/local/tmp/
	adb push cl_convolution_arm /data/local/tmp/
	adb shell chmod 777 -R /data/local/tmp/

And finally to run the example:

	adb shell /data/local/tmp/neon_convolution_arm
	adb shell /data/local/tmp/cl_convolution_arm

For 64bit:

	adb push neon_convolution_aarch64 /data/local/tmp/
	adb push cl_convolution_aarch64 /data/local/tmp/
	adb shell chmod 777 -R /data/local/tmp/

And finally to run the example:

	adb shell /data/local/tmp/neon_convolution_aarch64
	adb shell /data/local/tmp/cl_convolution_aarch64

@subsection S3_4_bare_metal Building for bare metal

For bare metal, the library was successfully built using linaros's latest (gcc-linaro-6.3.1-2017.05) bare metal toolchains:
 - arm-eabi for armv7a
 - aarch64-elf for arm64-v8a

Download linaro for <a href="https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/6.3-2017.05/arm-eabi/">armv7a</a> and <a href="https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/6.3-2017.05/aarch64-elf/">arm64-v8a</a>.

@note Make sure to add the toolchains to your PATH: export PATH=$PATH:$MY_TOOLCHAINS/gcc-linaro-6.3.1-2017.05-x86_64_aarch64-elf/bin:$MY_TOOLCHAINS/gcc-linaro-6.3.1-2017.05-x86_64_arm-eabi/bin

@subsubsection S3_4_1_library How to build the library ?

To cross-compile the library with NEON support for baremetal arm64-v8a:

	scons Werror=1 -j8 debug=0 neon=1 opencl=0 os=bare_metal arch=arm64-v8a build=cross_compile cppthreads=0 openmp=0 standalone=1

@subsubsection S3_4_2_examples How to manually build the examples ?

Examples are disabled when building for bare metal. If you want to build the examples you need to provide a custom bootcode depending on the target architecture and link against the compute library. More information about bare metal bootcode can be found <a href="http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dai0527a/index.html">here</a>.

@subsection S3_5_windows_host Building on a Windows host system

Using `scons` directly from the Windows command line is known to cause
problems. The reason seems to be that if `scons` is setup for cross-compilation
it gets confused about Windows style paths (using backslashes). Thus it is
recommended to follow one of the options outlined below.

@subsubsection S3_5_1_ubuntu_on_windows Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

The best and easiest option is to use 
<a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/commandline/wsl/about">Ubuntu on Windows</a>. 
This feature is still marked as *beta* and thus might not be available.
However, if it is building the library is as simple as opening a *Bash on
Ubuntu on Windows* shell and following the general guidelines given above.

@subsubsection S3_5_2_cygwin Cygwin

If the Windows subsystem for Linux is not available <a href="https://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> 
can be used to install and run `scons`. In addition to the default packages
installed by Cygwin `scons` has to be selected in the installer. (`git` might
also be useful but is not strictly required if you already have got the source
code of the library.) Linaro provides pre-built versions of 
<a href="http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/">GCC cross-compilers</a> 
that can be used from the Cygwin terminal. When building for Android the
compiler is included in the Android standalone toolchain. After everything has
been set up in the Cygwin terminal the general guide on building the library
can be followed.

@subsection S3_6_cl_stub_library The OpenCL stub library

In the opencl-1.2-stubs folder you will find the sources to build a stub OpenCL library which then can be used to link your application or arm_compute against.

If you preferred you could retrieve the OpenCL library from your device and link against this one but often this library will have dependencies on a range of system libraries forcing you to link your application against those too even though it is not using them.

@warning This OpenCL library provided is a stub and *not* a real implementation. You can use it to resolve OpenCL's symbols in arm_compute while building the example but you must make sure the real libOpenCL.so is in your PATH when running the example or it will not work.

To cross-compile the stub OpenCL library simply run:

	<target-prefix>-gcc -o libOpenCL.so -Iinclude opencl-1.2-stubs/opencl_stubs.c -fPIC -shared

For example:

	<target-prefix>-gcc -o libOpenCL.so -Iinclude opencl-1.2-stubs/opencl_stubs.c -fPIC -shared
	#Linux 32bit
	arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -o libOpenCL.so -Iinclude opencl-1.2-stubs/opencl_stubs.c -fPIC -shared
	#Linux 64bit
	aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -o libOpenCL.so -Iinclude -shared opencl-1.2-stubs/opencl_stubs.c -fPIC
	#Android 32bit
	arm-linux-androideabi-clang -o libOpenCL.so -Iinclude -shared opencl-1.2-stubs/opencl_stubs.c -fPIC -shared
	#Android 64bit
	aarch64-linux-android-gcc -o libOpenCL.so -Iinclude -shared opencl-1.2-stubs/opencl_stubs.c -fPIC -shared
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