Preparing a Model for NXP eIQ Neutron Backend

This guide demonstrating the use of ExecuTorch AoT flow to convert a PyTorch model to ExecuTorch format and delegate the model computation to eIQ Neutron NPU using the eIQ Neutron Backend.

Step 1: Environment Setup

This tutorial is intended to be run from a Linux and uses Conda or Virtual Env for Python environment management. For full setup details and system requirements, see Getting Started with ExecuTorch.

Create a Conda environment and install the ExecuTorch Python package.

conda create -y --name executorch python=3.12
conda activate executorch
conda install executorch

Run the setup.sh script to install the neutron-converter:

$ ./examples/nxp/setup.sh

Step 2: Model Preparation and Running the Model on Target

See the example aot_neutron_compile.py and its README file.