Google Research has open-sourced its Coral NPU IP (previously codenamed Kelvin), which it is giving to the industry in a bid to accelerate edge AI implementations by reducing fragmentation and improving security. Synaptics is the first to implement this NPU in silicon as part of its Astra SL2610 series of IoT device SoCs.
“We’ve decided to build Kelvin, again, as [RISC-V] soft IP that’s open so that anyone could take it and extend it”, says Billy Rutledge, Director of Edge AI Research at Google. “It’s really an attempt to try to de-fragment the ecosystem of MPUs. And we are members of the RISC-V consortium, and we try to participate in driving the ISA extensions for different parts of RISC-V.”
Google has been working on a new approach to enable the edge AI ecosystem to grow, Billy Rutledge, director of edge AI research at Google, told EE Times.
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