Convert a trained TensorFlow model to a C array and run inference on a microcontroller using LiteRT for Microcontrollers (formerly TensorFlow Lite Micro)
domain: github.com/tensorflow/tflite-micro · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Convert the trained model to a .tflite file using the TFLiteConverter
Convert the .tflite file into a C byte array (e.g. via xxd -i or the project's built-in conversion tooling) to embed it in firmware
Instantiate a tflite::MicroInterpreter with a tflite::MicroMutableOpResolver registered only for the ops the model actually uses
Allocate a fixed-size tensor arena (a byte array sized to fit the model's working memory) and pass it to the interpreter
Call AllocateTensors() once, then Invoke() repeatedly with new input data to run inference on-device
Known gotchas
the project has been rebranded to LiteRT for Microcontrollers while still living in the tflite-micro GitHub repo -- docs and blog posts may use either name inconsistently
an undersized tensor arena causes AllocateTensors() to fail at runtime rather than at compile time, so arena sizing needs empirical tuning per model
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