SPIR-V Guide

The SPIR-V Guide is designed to help developers get up and going with the world of SPIR-V. This guide is targeted at developers needing to use compilers SPIR-V in their tool chains and for developers wishing to develop custom tooling or compilers that outputs SPIR-V.

Logistics Overview

• What is SPIR-V?
• What can you do with SPIR-V
• SPIR-V Spec
• Internals of SPIR-V
• Capabilities system

Tooling

• Khronos provided tooling
• Parsing instructions

Understanding SPIR-V

• Access Chains
• Entry Point, Execution Model, and Execution Mode
• CFG Unordered Nesting
• Outside educational material
  • google/spirv-tutor

Extending SPIR-V

• Extensions overview
  • Extensions by version
• Creating an extension
• Extended instruction sets
• Non-Semantic Instructions