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+# CUDA Plugins
+This folder contains CUDA-accelerated OpenBR plugins.  They are structured in the following format.
+
+## File Structure
+We will use a plugin called `CUDAPlugin` as an example.
+
+Each plugin has 3 files associated with it: a CUDA file, CPP file, and HPP header file.
+```
+cudaplugin.cu
+cudaplugin.cpp
+cudaplugin.hpp
+```
+The `.cu` file contains CUDA kernel functions and the corresponding wrapper functions
+that directly call the kernel functions.  The `.cpp` files contain the OpenBR
+standard plugin declaration.  Functions in this file call the wrappers.  The `.hpp`
+contains header declarations for the CUDA wrapper functions so the `.cpp` file
+knows how to call them.
+
+# CUDA Files
+All functions for a particular CUDA plugin are defined in a namespace of that
+plugin's name which is defined within `br::cuda` namespace.  For example, if
+we have a plugin called CUDAPlugin, both wrapper and kernel functions should
+be globally defined within `br::cuda::cudaplugin`.