New GAP9 IoT offers five times lower power consumption than GAP8


https://www.electronics-lab.com/new-gap9-iot-offers-five-times-lower-power-consumption-gap8/

Last year, GreenWaves Technologies launched the GAP8 multi-core RISC-V microcontroller, aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge at ultra-low power consumption. Results from the GAP8 IoT SoC shows it performs inference at 3.7mA against 60mA for the same workload on STM32F7 Arm Cortex-M7 MCU. As a result of this performance, the company has now expanded […]

Developer kit delivers AI solutions to makers


https://www.electronics-lab.com/developer-kit-delivers-ai-solutions-makers/

Adding muscle to its SBC and IoT solutions OKdo, part of Electrocomponents, is now selling the NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit to its range. The kit comes with out-of-the-box support for full desktop Linux, compatible with many peripherals and accessories, ready-to-use projects and tutorials to help makers get started. The Jetson platform brings what the […]

Smart Marbles and AI to detect flaws in pipelines


https://www.electronics-lab.com/smart-marbles-ai-detect-flaws-pipelines/

A small team of researchers led by Peter Baltus, professor of microelectronics at the department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven Institute of Technology, the Netherlands, has developed small circuit boards equipped with sensors that can easily fit into a small golf-sized ball. While moving inside a pipeline, these swarm of smart marbles or balls can […]

DepthAI enables real time depth vision to the Raspberry Pi


https://www.electronics-lab.com/depthai-enables-real-time-depth-vision-raspberry-pi/

For a while now, Edge computing on the Raspberry PI has experienced a bit of ups and downs, especially with the trend of featuring AI in everything. The Raspberry Pi most times does not function properly with any reliable AI applications. A typical object detection on the Raspberry Pi would produce about 1 – 2 […]

DepthAI – An embedded platform for combining Depth and AI, built around Myriad X


https://www.electronics-lab.com/depthai-embedded-platform-combining-depth-ai-built-around-myriad-x/

DepthAI is a platform built around the Myriad X to combine depth perception, object detection (neural inference), and object tracking that gives you this power in a simple, easy-to-use Python API. It’s a one-stop shop for folks who want to combine and harness the power of AI, depth, and tracking. It does this by using […]

Avnet Unveils MaaXBoard for Low-Cost Embedded Computing and AI at the Edge Development


https://www.electronics-lab.com/avnet-unveils-maaxboard-low-cost-embedded-computing-ai-edge-development/

Leading global technology solutions provider Avnet is providing customers with the ability to focus more on the software side of their development by launching MaaXBoard, a low-cost, production-ready qualified single board computer. Based on the NXP i.MX 8M applications processor, MaaXBoard is ideal for embedded computing and applications that leverage AI at the edge. It […]

IEI Released a New Fanless DIN-Rail Embedded system for AI Deep Learning – ITG-100AI


https://www.electronics-lab.com/iei-released-new-fanless-din-rail-embedded-system-ai-deep-learning-itg-100ai/

The ITG-100AI is pre-installed with a Mustang-MPCIE-MX2 AI accelerator card, which includes two Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU, to provide a flexible AI inference solution. VPU is short for vision processing unit. It can run AI faster, and is well suited for low power consumption applications such as surveillance, retail and transportation. With the advantage […]

NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX SoM Delivers up to 21 TOPS for AI Workloads at the Edge


https://www.electronics-lab.com/nvidia-jetson-xavier-nx-som-delivers-21-tops-ai-workloads-edge/

NVIDIA has just announced Jetson Xavier NX system-on-module, with the company claiming it is the “world’s smallest, most powerful AI supercomputer for robotic and embedded computing devices at the edge” with a 70x45mm “Jetson Nano” form factor, and delivering either up to 14 TOPS at 10 Watts or 21 TOPS at 15 Watts. The Jetson […]

Orange Pi AI Stick Lite $20 Neural Compute Stick Ships with Free Training Tools


https://www.electronics-lab.com/orange-pi-ai-stick-lite-20-neural-compute-stick-ships-free-training-tools/

Shenzhen Xunlong Software launched Orange Pi AI Stick 2801 neural compute stick last year for $69. It was interesting as an alternative to Intel Neural Compute Stick. But once the documentation and SDK were released a few days later we discovered you could only run demos with the stick for that price, and the training […]

Aaeon launches M.2 and mini-PCIe based AI accelerators using low-power Kneron NPU


https://www.electronics-lab.com/aaeon-launches-m-2-mini-pcie-based-ai-accelerators-using-low-power-kneron-npu/

Aaeon’s M.2 and mini-PCIe “AI Edge Computing Modules” are based on Kneron’s energy-efficient, dual Cortex-M4-enabled KL520 AI SoC, which offers 0.3 TOP NPU performance on only half a Watt. by Eric Brown @ linuxgizmos.com Aaeon took an early interest in edge AI acceleration with Arm-based Nvidia Jetson TX2 based computers such as the Boxer-8170AI. More […]