SYNAPTICS Released its ASTRA Machina Kits
Kit with Flexible Modular Design
The ASTRATM Machina Series of evaluation-ready kits enable easy and rapid prototyping for the SYNAPTICS SL-series of multi-modal embedded processors. A modular design incorporates swappable core compute modules, a common I/O board and daughter cards for connectivity, debug, and flexible I/O options.
GITHUB: ASTRA SDK DOWNLOAD SAMPLESKey Facts of SYNAPTICS Edge AI Development Platform
- Modular architecture, initially enabled for SL16x0
- Qualified plug-and-play connectivity add-ons
- 3 “core modules” + a common “IO board”
- SL1680/1640/1620
- Multiple boot options – eMMC (default) – USB, SPI, SD
- Out of box experience
- Boot to Linux, from U-Boot
- Launch display server over HDMI
- Serial console supported
Arm Cortex-A, GPU and Hardware-Accelerated Security
The ASTRATM silicon portfolio comprises three SoCs with Arm Cortex-A processors, each with a GPU and a full complement of I/O. As expected from an IoT company, the SoC configurations reflect a savvy understanding of edge platform requirements for AI use cases ranging from basic functionality with modest GPU acceleration to high-performance applications requiring NPU and GPU acceleration.
All SL-Series SoCs also have hardware-accelerated security, video, graphics and audio. An SDK including the SynAP AI kit is available for download from github. The AI Kit allows for easy integration for own or 3rd AI models.
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