diff --git a/bin/CMakeLists.txt b/bin/CMakeLists.txt
index 92635eca3..6d5673a02 100644
--- a/bin/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/bin/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ add_subdirectory(FileCheck)
 get_property(dialect_libs GLOBAL PROPERTY MLIR_DIALECT_LIBS)
 get_property(conversion_libs GLOBAL PROPERTY MLIR_CONVERSION_LIBS)
 
-add_llvm_executable(triton-opt triton-opt.cpp)
+add_llvm_executable(triton-opt triton-opt.cpp PARTIAL_SOURCES_INTENDED)
 
 # TODO: what's this?
-# llvm_update_compile_flags(triton-opt)
+llvm_update_compile_flags(triton-opt)
 target_link_libraries(triton-opt PRIVATE
   TritonAnalysis
   TritonTransforms
@@ -23,4 +23,36 @@ target_link_libraries(triton-opt PRIVATE
   MLIRTransforms
 )
 
-mlir_check_all_link_libraries(triton-opt)
\ No newline at end of file
+mlir_check_all_link_libraries(triton-opt)
+
+
+add_llvm_executable(triton-translate triton-translate.cpp PARTIAL_SOURCES_INTENDED)
+llvm_update_compile_flags(triton-translate)
+target_link_libraries(triton-translate PRIVATE
+        TritonAnalysis
+        TritonTransforms
+        TritonGPUTransforms
+        TritonLLVMIR
+        TritonDriver
+        ${dialect_libs}
+        ${conversion_libs}
+        # tests
+        TritonTestAnalysis
+
+        LLVMCore
+        LLVMSupport
+        LLVMOption
+        LLVMCodeGen
+        LLVMAsmParser
+
+        # MLIR core
+        MLIROptLib
+        MLIRIR
+        MLIRPass
+        MLIRSupport
+        MLIRTransforms
+        MLIRExecutionEngine
+        MLIRTransformUtils
+        MLIRLLVMToLLVMIRTranslation
+        )
+mlir_check_all_link_libraries(triton-translate)
diff --git a/bin/triton-translate.cpp b/bin/triton-translate.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ad5ec5f65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/triton-translate.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+#include "mlir/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.h"
+#include "mlir/ExecutionEngine/OptUtils.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/AsmState.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/BuiltinOps.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "mlir/Parser.h"
+#include "mlir/Pass/Pass.h"
+#include "mlir/Pass/PassManager.h"
+#include "mlir/Support/FileUtilities.h"
+#include "mlir/Support/LogicalResult.h"
+#include "mlir/Target/LLVMIR/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMToLLVMIRTranslation.h"
+#include "mlir/Target/LLVMIR/Export.h"
+#include "triton/Conversion/TritonGPUToLLVM/TritonGPUToLLVM.h"
+#include "triton/Conversion/TritonToTritonGPU/TritonToTritonGPU.h"
+#include "triton/Dialect/Triton/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "triton/Dialect/TritonGPU/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "triton/Target/LLVMIR/LLVMIRTranslation.h"
+#include "triton/driver/llvm.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/LLVMContext.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/InitLLVM.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/SourceMgr.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/ToolOutputFile.h"
+#include <iostream>
+
+namespace mlir {
+namespace triton {
+
+OwningOpRef<ModuleOp> loadMLIRModule(llvm::StringRef inputFilename,
+                                     MLIRContext &context) {
+  std::string errorMessage;
+  auto input = openInputFile(inputFilename, &errorMessage);
+  if (!input) {
+    llvm::errs() << errorMessage << "\n";
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+
+  mlir::DialectRegistry registry;
+  registry
+      .insert<TritonDialect, gpu::TritonGPUDialect, arith::ArithmeticDialect,
+              StandardOpsDialect, scf::SCFDialect>();
+
+  context.appendDialectRegistry(registry);
+
+  auto processBuffer = [&](std::unique_ptr<llvm::MemoryBuffer> ownedBuffer)
+      -> OwningOpRef<ModuleOp> {
+    llvm::SourceMgr sourceMgr;
+    sourceMgr.AddNewSourceBuffer(std::move(ownedBuffer), SMLoc());
+
+    context.loadAllAvailableDialects();
+    context.allowUnregisteredDialects();
+
+    OwningOpRef<ModuleOp> module(parseSourceFile(sourceMgr, &context));
+    if (!module) {
+      llvm::errs() << "Parse MLIR file failed.";
+      return nullptr;
+    }
+
+    return module;
+  };
+
+  auto module = processBuffer(std::move(input));
+  if (!module) {
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+
+  mlir::PassManager pm(module->getContext());
+  applyPassManagerCLOptions(pm);
+
+  pm.addPass(createConvertTritonGPUToLLVMPass());
+
+  if (failed(pm.run(module->getOperation()))) {
+    llvm::errs() << "Pass execution failed";
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+
+  return module;
+}
+
+LogicalResult tritonTranslateMain(int argc, char **argv,
+                                  llvm::StringRef toolName) {
+  static llvm::cl::opt<std::string> inputFilename(
+      llvm::cl::Positional, llvm::cl::desc("<input file>"),
+      llvm::cl::init("-"));
+
+  static llvm::cl::opt<std::string> outputFilename(
+      "o", llvm::cl::desc("Output filename"), llvm::cl::value_desc("filename"),
+      llvm::cl::init("-"));
+
+  static llvm::cl::opt<std::string> targetKind(
+      "target", llvm::cl::desc("<translation target, options: llvmir/ptx>"),
+      llvm::cl::value_desc("target"), llvm::cl::init("llvmir"));
+
+  static llvm::cl::opt<int> SMArch("sm", llvm::cl::desc("sm arch"),
+                                   llvm::cl::init(80));
+
+  static llvm::cl::opt<int> ptxVersion(
+      "ptx-version", llvm::cl::desc("PTX version"), llvm::cl::init(10000));
+
+  llvm::InitLLVM y(argc, argv);
+
+  registerAsmPrinterCLOptions();
+
+  registerMLIRContextCLOptions();
+  llvm::cl::ParseCommandLineOptions(argc, argv, toolName);
+
+  mlir::MLIRContext context;
+  auto module = loadMLIRModule(inputFilename, context);
+  if (!module) {
+    return failure();
+  }
+
+  std::string errorMessage;
+  auto output = openOutputFile(outputFilename, &errorMessage);
+  if (!output) {
+    llvm::errs() << errorMessage << "\n";
+    return failure();
+  }
+
+  llvm::LLVMContext llvmContext;
+  auto llvmir = TranslateLLVMToLLVMIR(&llvmContext, *module);
+  if (!llvmir) {
+    llvm::errs() << "Translate to LLVM IR failed";
+  }
+
+  if (targetKind == "llvmir")
+    llvm::outs() << *llvmir << '\n';
+  else if (targetKind == "ptx")
+    llvm::outs() << ::triton::driver::llir_to_ptx(
+        llvmir.get(), SMArch.getValue(), ptxVersion.getValue());
+
+  return success();
+}
+
+} // namespace triton
+} // namespace mlir
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv) {
+  return failed(mlir::triton::tritonTranslateMain(
+      argc, argv, "Triton Translate Testing Tool."));
+}
diff --git a/include/triton/Conversion/TritonGPUToLLVM/TritonGPUToLLVM.h b/include/triton/Conversion/TritonGPUToLLVM/TritonGPUToLLVM.h
index adbd2ef52..85ffc1944 100644
--- a/include/triton/Conversion/TritonGPUToLLVM/TritonGPUToLLVM.h
+++ b/include/triton/Conversion/TritonGPUToLLVM/TritonGPUToLLVM.h
@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ public:
 
 namespace triton {
 
+// Names for identifying different NVVM annotations. It is used as attribute
+// names in MLIR modules. Refer to
+// https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/nvvm-ir-spec/index.html#supported-properties for
+// the full list.
+struct NVVMMetadataField {
+  static constexpr char MaxNTid[] = "nvvm.maxntid";
+  static constexpr char Kernel[] = "nvvm.kernel";
+};
+
 std::unique_ptr<OperationPass<ModuleOp>> createConvertTritonGPUToLLVMPass();
 
 } // namespace triton
diff --git a/include/triton/Target/LLVMIR/LLVMIRTranslation.h b/include/triton/Target/LLVMIR/LLVMIRTranslation.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ec11d524
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/triton/Target/LLVMIR/LLVMIRTranslation.h
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#ifndef TRITON_TARGET_LLVMIRTRANSLATION_H
+#define TRITON_TARGET_LLVMIRTRANSLATION_H
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace llvm {
+class Module;
+class LLVMContext;
+} // namespace llvm
+
+namespace mlir {
+class ModuleOp;
+} // namespace mlir
+
+namespace mlir {
+namespace triton {
+
+// Translate mlir LLVM dialect to LLVMIR, return null if failed.
+std::unique_ptr<llvm::Module>
+TranslateLLVMToLLVMIR(llvm::LLVMContext *llvmContext, mlir::ModuleOp module);
+
+} // namespace triton
+} // namespace mlir
+
+#endif // TRITON_TARGET_LLVMIRTRANSLATION_H
diff --git a/lib/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/CMakeLists.txt
index d19e99c0b..5a6ba8951 100644
--- a/lib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/lib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ add_subdirectory(driver)
 add_subdirectory(Analysis)
 add_subdirectory(Conversion)
 add_subdirectory(Dialect)
+add_subdirectory(Target)
diff --git a/lib/Conversion/TritonGPUToLLVM/TritonGPUToLLVM.cpp b/lib/Conversion/TritonGPUToLLVM/TritonGPUToLLVM.cpp
index 7ccdf7bc0..78e51b962 100644
--- a/lib/Conversion/TritonGPUToLLVM/TritonGPUToLLVM.cpp
+++ b/lib/Conversion/TritonGPUToLLVM/TritonGPUToLLVM.cpp
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ struct FuncOpConversion : public FuncOpConversionBase {
     auto i32 = IntegerType::get(ctx, 32);
     // Set an attribute for maxntidx, it could be used in latter LLVM codegen
     // for `nvvm.annotation` metadata.
-    newFuncOp->setAttr("nvvm.maxntidx",
+    newFuncOp->setAttr(NVVMMetadataField::MaxNTid,
                        rewriter.getIntegerAttr(i32, 32 * NumWarps));
 
     rewriter.eraseOp(funcOp);
diff --git a/lib/Target/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/Target/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..88b49be6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/Target/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+add_subdirectory(LLVMIR)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/Target/LLVMIR/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/Target/LLVMIR/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..73a89676a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/Target/LLVMIR/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+add_mlir_translation_library(TritonLLVMIR
+        LLVMIRTranslation.cpp
+
+        LINK_COMPONENTS
+        Core
+
+        LINK_LIBS PUBLIC
+        MLIRIR
+        MLIRLLVMIR
+        MLIRSupport
+        MLIRTargetLLVMIRExport
+        )
diff --git a/lib/Target/LLVMIR/LLVMIRTranslation.cpp b/lib/Target/LLVMIR/LLVMIRTranslation.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ed4931a8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/Target/LLVMIR/LLVMIRTranslation.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+#include "triton/Target/LLVMIR/LLVMIRTranslation.h"
+#include "mlir/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMDialect.h"
+#include "mlir/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.h"
+#include "mlir/ExecutionEngine/OptUtils.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/BuiltinOps.h"
+#include "mlir/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "mlir/Support/LogicalResult.h"
+#include "mlir/Target/LLVMIR/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMToLLVMIRTranslation.h"
+#include "mlir/Target/LLVMIR/Export.h"
+#include "mlir/Target/LLVMIR/LLVMTranslationInterface.h"
+#include "triton/Conversion/TritonGPUToLLVM/TritonGPUToLLVM.h"
+#include "triton/driver/llvm.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/Constants.h"
+
+namespace mlir {
+namespace triton {
+
+// Describes NVVM Metadata. It is used to record the nvvm related meta
+// information from mlir module.
+struct NVVMMetadata {
+  int maxntidx{-1};
+  bool is_kernel{};
+  // Free to extend with other information.
+};
+
+// Add the nvvm related metadata to LLVM IR.
+void amendLLVMFunc(llvm::Function *func, const NVVMMetadata &metadata) {
+  auto *module = func->getParent();
+  auto &ctx = func->getContext();
+
+  if (metadata.maxntidx > 0) {
+    auto i32_ty = llvm::IntegerType::get(ctx, 32);
+    auto warps =
+        llvm::ConstantInt::get(i32_ty, llvm::APInt(32, metadata.maxntidx));
+
+    llvm::Metadata *md_args[] = {llvm::ValueAsMetadata::get(func),
+                                 llvm::MDString::get(ctx, "maxntidx"),
+                                 llvm::ValueAsMetadata::get(warps)};
+
+    module->getOrInsertNamedMetadata("nvvm.annotations")
+        ->addOperand(llvm::MDNode::get(ctx, md_args));
+  }
+
+  if (metadata.is_kernel) {
+    llvm::Metadata *md_args[] = {
+        llvm::ValueAsMetadata::get(func), llvm::MDString::get(ctx, "kernel"),
+        llvm::ValueAsMetadata::get(
+            llvm::ConstantInt::get(llvm::Type::getInt32Ty(ctx), 1))};
+    module->getOrInsertNamedMetadata("nvvm.annotations")
+        ->addOperand(llvm::MDNode::get(ctx, md_args));
+  }
+}
+
+void extractNVVMMetadata(mlir::ModuleOp module,
+                         llvm::DenseMap<llvm::StringRef, NVVMMetadata> *dic) {
+  for (auto op : module.getOps<LLVM::LLVMFuncOp>()) {
+    NVVMMetadata meta;
+
+    bool hasMetadata{};
+
+    // maxntid
+    if (op->hasAttr(NVVMMetadataField::MaxNTid)) {
+      auto attr = op->getAttr(NVVMMetadataField::MaxNTid);
+      meta.maxntidx = attr.dyn_cast<IntegerAttr>().getInt();
+      hasMetadata = true;
+    }
+
+    // kernel
+    if (op->hasAttr(NVVMMetadataField::Kernel)) {
+      meta.is_kernel = true;
+      hasMetadata = true;
+    }
+
+    if (hasMetadata)
+      dic->try_emplace(op.getNameAttr().strref(), std::move(meta));
+  }
+}
+
+std::unique_ptr<llvm::Module>
+TranslateLLVMToLLVMIR(llvm::LLVMContext *llvmContext, mlir::ModuleOp module) {
+  auto context = module->getContext();
+  DialectRegistry registry;
+  registerLLVMDialectTranslation(registry);
+  context->appendDialectRegistry(registry);
+
+  llvm::DenseMap<llvm::StringRef, NVVMMetadata> nvvmMetadata;
+  extractNVVMMetadata(module, &nvvmMetadata);
+
+  auto llvmModule = mlir::translateModuleToLLVMIR(module, *llvmContext);
+  if (!llvmModule) {
+    llvm::errs() << "Failed to emit LLVM IR\n";
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+
+  // Initialize LLVM targets.
+  ::triton::driver::init_llvm();
+  mlir::ExecutionEngine::setupTargetTriple(llvmModule.get());
+
+  auto optPipeline = mlir::makeOptimizingTransformer(
+      /*optLevel=*/3, /*sizeLevel=*/0,
+      /*targetMachine=*/nullptr);
+
+  if (auto err = optPipeline(llvmModule.get())) {
+    llvm::errs() << "Failed to optimize LLVM IR " << err << "\n";
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+
+  for (auto &func : llvmModule->functions()) {
+    auto it = nvvmMetadata.find(func.getName());
+    if (it != nvvmMetadata.end())
+      amendLLVMFunc(&func, it->second);
+  }
+
+  return llvmModule;
+}
+
+} // namespace triton
+} // namespace mlir
diff --git a/test/Target/tritongpu_to_llvmir.mlir b/test/Target/tritongpu_to_llvmir.mlir
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70291ec2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Target/tritongpu_to_llvmir.mlir
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// RUN: triton-translate %s --target=llvmir | FileCheck %s
+
+// == LLVM IR check begin ==
+// CHECK-LABEL: ; ModuleID = 'LLVMDialectModule'
+// CHECK: define void @test_empty_kernel
+// CHECK: !nvvm.annotations
+// CHECK: !{void (i64, half addrspace(1)*)* @test_empty_kernel, !"maxntidx", i32 128}
+
+func @test_empty_kernel(%lb : index, %A : !tt.ptr<f16>) {
+
+  return
+}
+
diff --git a/test/Target/tritongpu_to_ptx.mlir b/test/Target/tritongpu_to_ptx.mlir
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b09600065
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Target/tritongpu_to_ptx.mlir
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// RUN: triton-translate %s --target=ptx --sm=80 --ptx-version=10000 | FileCheck %s
+
+// CHECK-LABEL: // Generated by LLVM NVPTX Back-End
+// CHECK: .version 6.3
+// CHECK: .target sm_80
+// CHECK: .address_size 64
+
+func @test_empty_kernel(%lb : index, %A : !tt.ptr<f16>) {
+
+  return
+}