The SPIR-V Guide is designed to help developers get up and going with the world of SPIR-V. This guide is targeted at developers needing to use compilers SPIR-V in their tool chains and for developers wishing to develop custom tooling or compilers that output SPIR-V.

• What is SPIR-V?
• What can you do with SPIR-V
• SPIR-V Spec
• Internals of SPIR-V
• Capabilities system
• Versions

• Khronos provided tooling
• Parsing instructions

• Entry Point, Execution Model, and Execution Mode
  • LocalSize and WorkgroupSize
• Types
• Untyped Pointers (SPV_KHR_untyped_pointers)
  • Descriptor Heap (SPV_EXT_descriptor_heap)
• Structs
• Access Chains
• Storage Class
• Image Accesses
• Explicit Layout

• Functions and Blocks
• CFG Unordered Nesting

• google/spirv-tutor
• Khronos Developer Day Osaka 2023 (video and slides)

• Extensions overview
  • Extensions by version
• Creating an extension
• Extended instruction sets
• Non-Semantic Instructions
  • NonSemantic Shader DebugInfo