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Edge AI Processor Architecture for Imaging & Computer Vision

专门用于边缘深度学习的低功耗AI处理器系列。提供独立的专用AI处理器，为包括物联网，智能手机，监控，汽车，机器人，医疗和工业在内的广泛终端市场提供性能扩展。 NeuPro建立在CEVA在计算机视觉应用深层神经网络领域的行业领先地位和经验的基础上。数十家客户已经将CEVA-XM4和CEVA-XM6视觉平台与CDNN神经网络软件框架一起部署在消费，监控和ADAS产品中。这个全新的专用AI处理器系列在性能方面提供了相当大的提升，从入门级处理器的2 Tera Ops（TOPS）到最高级配置的12.5 TOPS。

特色

NeuPro-S AI processor consists of NeuPro-S Engine and CEVA-XM Vision DSP

NeuPro-S Engine - Specialized engines for Convolution, Activation and Pooling layers as well as weights decompression
CEVA-XM6 - Fully programmable vector DSP for complementary NN functions, simultaneous processing of computer vision, imaging and customer extensions workloads
Supports both 8-bit and 16-bit quantization mix to enable real-time decision tradeoff between precision vs. performance

Supports multi-level memory system hierarchy enables multi-core scalability
Optimized DDR bandwidth enabling weight compression and exploring network sparsity
Advanced hardware DMA controllers for parallel processing and minimizing system overhead
The NeuPro-S AI processor architecture includes the following processor options:

NPS1000 includes 1024 8x8-bit MAC units
NPS2000 includes 2048 8x8-bit MAC units
NPS4000 includes 4096 8x8-bit MAC units

Supports heterogeneous scalability and co-processing with custom AI engines to enable further customer differentiation

优势

The NeuPro AI processor family were designed to reduce the high barriers-to-entry into the AI space in terms of both architecture and software. Enabling an optimized and cost-effective standard AI platform that can be utilized for a multitude of AI-based workloads and applications
Self-contained, unified imaging, computer vision and AI Processor in single architecture
Unique 4096 native 8x8 MACS processing enabling up to 12.5 TOPS for single core and 100+ TOPS for multi-core instantiations
System aware architecture, optimized for memory bandwidth, power and performance efficiency