Thanks everyone for the detailed input and feedback!
To keep track of the latest version of the UMA pre-RFC and to add the great suggestions that we got from this discussion thread , I created a document in our tvm-rfc fork :
# UMA: Universal Modular Accelerator Interface
Feature Name: Universal Modular Accelerator Interface (UMA)
Start Date: 2022 February
Authors:
Paul Palomero Bernardo @paulpb, Christoph Gerum @cgerum - University of Tübingen
Michael J. Klaiber @mjklaiber, Ingo Feldner - Bosch Research
Philipp van Kempen @philippvk, Rafael Stahl @r.stahl, Daniel Müller-Gritschneder - Technical University of Munich
Johannes Partzsch - TU Dresden
Andrew Stevens - Infineon Technologies
RFC PR: TBD
GitHub Issue: TBD
## Summary
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The goal of **UMA (Universal Modular Accelerator Interface)** is to create a unified infrastructure for easily integrating external accelerators into TVM.
UMA provides file structures, Python interface classes and an API for accelerator integration. These interfaces and API are accessible from Python and are part of the components *UMA Partitioner*, *UMA Lower* and *UMA Codgen*.
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