[PATCH 3/9] dt-bindings: npu: Add bindings for NXP Neutron

Ioana Ciocoi-Radulescu ruxandra.radulescu at nxp.com
Thu Feb 26 05:40:42 PST 2026


Add the bindings for Neutron, a Neural Processing Unit from NXP.

Signed-off-by: Jiwei Fu <jiwei.fu at nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciocoi-Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu at nxp.com>
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/npu/nxp,imx95-neutron.yaml | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 95 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/npu/nxp,imx95-neutron.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/npu/nxp,imx95-neutron.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba1f6851866b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/npu/nxp,imx95-neutron.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/npu/nxp,imx95-neutron.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: NXP Neutron NPU
+
+maintainers:
+  - Ioana Ciocoi-Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu at nxp.com>
+  - Jiwei Fu <jiwei.fu at nxp.com>
+
+description:
+  Neutron is an NPU from NXP targeting edge AI inference applications.
+  Initially supported on i.MX95 SoCs.
+
+properties:
+  compatible:
+    enum:
+      - nxp,imx95-neutron
+
+  reg:
+    items:
+      - description: Register space
+      - description: Instruction area of the TCM space
+      - description: Data area of the TCM space
+
+  reg-names:
+    items:
+      - const: regs
+      - const: itcm
+      - const: dtcm
+
+  memory-region:
+    description:
+      Phandle referencing a "shared-dma-pool" to be used for Neutron
+      inference buffers, which need to be 1MB aligned.
+
+      The memory region must be defined with alignment of 1MB and size
+      should be large enough to accommodate the targeted ML models. It
+      should be marked as reusable.
+    maxItems: 1
+
+  interrupts:
+    maxItems: 1
+
+  clocks:
+    minItems: 2
+    maxItems: 3
+
+  clock-names:
+    minItems: 2
+    items:
+      - const: npu
+      - const: npu_apb
+      - const: npu_cgc
+
+  iommus:
+    maxItems: 1
+
+  power-domains:
+    maxItems: 1
+
+required:
+  - compatible
+  - reg
+  - reg-names
+  - memory-region
+  - interrupts
+
+additionalProperties: false
+
+examples:
+  - |
+    #include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h>
+    #include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/irq.h>
+
+    bus {
+      #address-cells = <2>;
+      #size-cells = <2>;
+
+      neutron at 4ab00000 {
+              compatible = "nxp,imx95-neutron";
+              reg = <0x0 0x4ab00000 0x0 0x00000400>,
+                    <0x0 0x4AB10000 0x0 0x00010000>,
+                    <0x0 0x4AB08000 0x0 0x00008000>;
+              reg-names = "regs", "itcm", "dtcm";
+              memory-region = <&neutron_pool>;
+              interrupts = <GIC_SPI 318 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+              clocks = <&scmi_clk 68>, <&scmi_clk 67>;
+              clock-names = "npu", "npu_apb";
+              power-domains = <&scmi_devpd 20>;
+      };
+    };
+...

-- 
2.34.1




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