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+# Halide for Hexagon HVX
+
+Halide supports offloading work to Qualcomm Hexagon DSP on Qualcomm Snapdragon
+845/710 devices or newer. The Hexagon DSP provides a set of 128 byte vector
+instruction extensions - the Hexagon Vector eXtensions (HVX). HVX is well suited
+for image processing, and Halide for Hexagon HVX will generate the appropriate
+HVX vector instructions from a program authored in Halide.
+
+Halide can be used to compile Hexagon object files directly, by using a target
+such as `hexagon-32-qurt-hvx`.
+
+Halide can also be used to offload parts of a pipeline to Hexagon using the
+`hexagon` scheduling directive. To enable the `hexagon` scheduling directive,
+include the `hvx` target feature in your target. The currently supported
+combination of targets is to use the HVX target features with an x86 linux
+host (to use the simulator) or with an ARM android target (to use Hexagon DSP
+hardware). For examples of using the `hexagon` scheduling directive on both the
+simulator and a Hexagon DSP, see the blur example app.
+
+To build and run an example app using the Hexagon target,
+
+1. Obtain and build trunk LLVM and Clang. (Earlier versions of LLVM may work but
+   are not actively tested and thus not recommended.)
+2. Download and install the Hexagon SDK and Hexagon Tools. Hexagon SDK 4.3.0 or
+   later is needed. Hexagon Tools 8.4 or later is needed.
+3. Build and run an example for Hexagon HVX
+
+## 1. Obtain and build trunk LLVM and Clang
+
+(Follow the instructions given previously, just be sure to check out the `main`
+branch.)
+
+## 2. Download and install the Hexagon SDK and Hexagon Tools
+
+Go to https://qpm.qualcomm.com/#/main/home
+
+1. Go to Tools, and download Qualcomm Package Manager 3. Install the package
+   manager on your machine.
+2. Run the installed Qualcomm Package Manager and install the Qualcomm Hexagon
+   SDK 5.x (or 4.x). The SDK can be selected from the Qualcomm Hexagon SDK
+   Products.
+3. Set an environment variable to point to the SDK installation location
+   ```
+   export SDK_LOC=/location/of/SDK
+   ```
+
+## 3. Build and run an example for Hexagon HVX
+
+In addition to running Hexagon code on device, Halide also supports running
+Hexagon code on the simulator from the Hexagon tools.
+
+To build and run the blur example in Halide/apps/blur on the simulator:
+
+```
+cd apps/blur
+export HL_HEXAGON_SIM_REMOTE=../../src/runtime/hexagon_remote/bin/v65/hexagon_sim_remote
+export HL_HEXAGON_TOOLS=$SDK_LOC/Hexagon_Tools/8.x/Tools/
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../src/runtime/hexagon_remote/bin/host/:$HL_HEXAGON_TOOLS/lib/iss/:. HL_TARGET=host-hvx make test
+```
+
+## To build and run the blur example in Halide/apps/blur on Android:
+
+To build the example for Android, first ensure that you have Android NDK r19b or
+later installed, and the ANDROID_NDK_ROOT environment variable points to it.
+(Note that Qualcomm Hexagon SDK v4.3.0 includes Android NDK r19c, which is
+fine.)
+
+Now build and run the blur example using the script to run it on device:
+
+```
+export HL_HEXAGON_TOOLS=$SDK_LOC/HEXAGON_Tools/8.4.11/Tools/
+HL_TARGET=arm-64-android-hvx ./adb_run_on_device.sh
+```