Vulkan Tutorials

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Vulkan 101

Tom Olson, Director of graphics research, ARM

An introduction to the Vulkan API. Tom Olson discusses the API’s history, how it works in comparison with OpenGL, and why developers should be looking to move to Vulkan in the future.

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Vulkan’s key features on ARM Architecture

Vulkan’s key features on ARM Architecture

Daniele Di Donato, Senior Software Engineer, ARM

The key features of the Vulkan high-performance graphics API on the latest ARM Cortex CPU and ARM Mali GPU architectures.

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Introduction to SPIR-V Shaders

Using SPIR-V in practice

Introduction to SPIR-V Shaders &
Using SPIR-V in practice with SPIRV-Cross

Neil Hickey, Compiler Engineer, ARM
Hans-Kristian Arntzen,  Engineer, ARM

A look at the capabilites of SPIR-V Shaders with Vulkan, followed by an overview of offline SPIR-V compilation, creating pipeline layouts, porting to other graphics APIs and debugging complex shaders.

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Porting to Vulkan

Hans-Kristian Arntzen,  Engineer, ARM

Techniques for porting your code to the Vulkan API. The talk covers everything you need to know, including Memory Allocation, Pipelines, Subpasses and Push Constants.

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