EE Awards / Alif Semiconductor / New Generation of Ensemble MCU family, E4/6/8
Alif Semiconductor
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New Generation of Ensemble MCU family, E4/6/8
Candidate for:EE Awards - Edge Computing Platform
The new E4, E6 and E8 Ensemble MCUs and fusion processors integrate the latest neural processing unit (NPU) from Arm®, the Ethos ™ -U85, with Alif’s unique high bandwidth memory and intelligent power management architecture to support NPU operators required by transformer networks to efficiently execute generative AI workloads. Transformer networks enrich endpoint use cases by focusing on the most relevant parts of older portions of an acquired input sequence while rapidly processing in parallel the current acquired sequence to enable deeper contextualization. For localized use this results in an instant, accurate, and more satisfying experience when using multimodal AI in endpoint products focused on vision, voice, text, and sensor fusion without relying on the cloud. The new E4/6/8 family also introduce a set of improvements to give even higher AI/ML performance at lower power consumption, and to provide more integrated support for embedded vision and audio applications. New features integrates a wider internal memory bus topology bringing abundant localized data bandwidth for NPU consumption, dual MIPI-CSI camera interfaces, a fast hardware image signal processor operating up to 200 frames per second, and a pair of faster interfaces to external memory each capable of 800MBytes/s. And finally, new broader options for SRAM data retention gives designers more flexibility to wake from sleep faster.
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