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  "additional_evidence_urls": [
    "https://github.com/FrederikRogalski/tinycoral/blob/60794943cca3ddc63a4438cfff91b520b12bcfef/NOTES.md",
    "https://github.com/FrederikRogalski/tinycoral/blob/60794943cca3ddc63a4438cfff91b520b12bcfef/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md"
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  "description_en": "tinycoral reconstructs the Google Coral Edge TPU instruction set and USB runtime for a tinygrad backend. It includes decoded instruction layouts, a code generator, DarwiNN executable handling and a Python driver for firmware upload, register access and DMA transfers; the author reports byte-identical generated programs against Google's compiler for supported operations.",
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  "evidence_class": 2,
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    "prerequisites",
    "prerequisites",
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    "Google Coral USB Accelerator, Python 3.11+, libusb and the pinned tinygrad revision.",
    "Offline compiler comparison needs the Google compiler, Docker and the tools dependencies.",
    "Whole-network compilation is limited to documented convolution, pooling and linear-layer chains.",
    "MIT license."
  ],
  "requirements_zh": [
    "需要 Google Coral USB Accelerator、Python 3.11 或更新版本、libusb 及指定版本的 tinygrad。",
    "离线编译器对比需要 Google 编译器、Docker 和工具依赖。",
    "整网编译仅覆盖文档列出的卷积、池化和线性层组合。",
    "采用 MIT 许可证。"
  ],
  "scope": "unknown",
  "targets": [
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  ],
  "url": "https://github.com/FrederikRogalski/tinycoral",
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  "verified_at": "2026-11-06"
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