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# Adding a new accelerator to tinygrad
It's pretty easy to add a new accelerator to tinygrad. All you need to do is implement a total of 20 (optionally 21) low level ops. Then tinygrad takes care of the rest, handling derivatives and syntactic sugar.
## llops
These are the ops that you must implement for your accelerator of choice.
```
Buffer # class of memory on this device
unary_op (NOOP, EXP2, LOG2, CAST, SIN, SQRT) # A -> A
reduce_op (SUM, MAX) # A -> B (smaller size, B has 1 in shape)
binary_op (ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV, CMPEQ, MAX) # A + A -> A (all the same size)
load_op (EMPTY, CONST, FROM, CONTIGUOUS, CUSTOM) # -> A (initialize data on device)
ternary_op (WHERE) # A, A, A -> A
ternary_op [[optional]] (MULACC) # A * A -> B
```
## mlops
These are the mid level ops that handle the derivatives.
```
Relu, Log, Exp, Sin # unary ops
Sum, Max # reduce ops (with axis argument)
Maximum, Add, Sub, Mul, Pow, Div, Equal # binary ops (no broadcasting, use expand)
Expand, Reshape, Permute, Pad, Shrink, Flip # movement ops
Where # ternary ops
```
These are implemented in [mlops.py](/tinygrad/mlops.py).
## hlops
These are the syntax sugar. They are built on top of the mlops and support most of the things that you could expect from a tensor library.
These are implemented in [tensor.py](/tinygrad/tensor.py).