DALLAS, March 15,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To build on innovations
that advance intelligence at the edge, Texas Instruments (TI)
(Nasdaq: TXN) today introduced a new family of six Arm®
Cortex®-based vision processors that allow designers to add more
vision and artificial intelligence (AI) processing at a lower cost,
and with better energy efficiency, in applications such as video
doorbells, machine vision and autonomous mobile robots.
This new family, which includes the AM62A, AM68A and AM69A
processors, is supported by open-source evaluation and model
development tools, and common software that is programmable through
industry-standard application programming interfaces (APIs),
frameworks and models. This platform of vision processors, software
and tools helps designers easily develop and scale edge AI designs
across multiple systems while accelerating time to market. For more
information, see www.ti.com/edgeai-pr.
"In order to achieve real-time responsiveness in the electronics
that keep our world moving, decision-making needs to happen locally
and with better power efficiency," said Sameer Wasson, vice president, Processors, Texas
Instruments. "This new processor family of affordable, highly
integrated SoCs will enable the future of embedded AI by allowing
for more cameras and vision processing in edge applications."
Scalable AI camera performance at the edge with vision
processors
TI's new vision processors bring intelligence from the cloud to
the real world by eliminating cost and design complexity barriers
when implementing vision processing and deep learning capabilities
in low-power edge AI applications.
These processors feature a system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture
that includes extensive integration. Integrated components include
Arm Cortex-A53 or Cortex-A72 central processing units, a
third-generation TI image signal processor, internal memory,
interfaces, and hardware accelerators that deliver from 1 to 32
teraoperations per second (TOPS) of AI processing for deep learning
algorithms.
Vision processors in this family include the:
- AM62A3, AM62A3-Q1, AM62A7
and AM62A7-Q1, which support one to two cameras at less
than 2 W in applications such as video doorbells and smart retail
systems. This family includes the AM62A3, the industry's
lowest-cost 1-TOPS vision processor (US$12 in 1,000-unit quantities).
- AM68A, which enables one to eight cameras in
applications like machine vision, with up to 8 TOPS of AI
processing for advanced video analytics.
- AM69A, which achieves 32 TOPS of AI processing for
one to 12 cameras in high-performance applications such as edge AI
boxes, autonomous mobile robots and traffic monitoring
systems.
Streamlined AI evaluation and development with open-source,
free tool
Beginning in Q2 2023, designers can accelerate time to market
for their edge AI applications with a public beta of TI's free
open-source tool, Edge AI Studio. This feature-rich, web-based tool
allows users to develop and test AI models quickly and easily using
user-created models and TI's optimized models, which can also be
retrained with custom data. Learn more about edge AI studio at
dev.ti.com/edgeaistudio.
These new processors, software and tools for edge AI
applications build on TI's commitment to making the future of
embedded possible with scalable processing portfolios.
See AM6xA processors in action at embedded world 2023
At embedded world in Nuremberg, Germany, March
14-16, visitors to TI's booth can see how AM6xA processors
allow designers to implement scalable and affordable AI and vision
processing in smart retail, industrial robotics and advanced driver
assistance system applications. TI will demonstrate this processor
family in Hall 3A, Booth 215. See ti.com/embeddedworld for more
information.
Package, availability and pricing
AM68A processors are available now through TI and authorized
distributors in production quantities. Pre-production samples of
the AM62A and the AM69A are available through TI. Pricing for AM6xA
processors starts at US$12 for
1,000-unit quantities. Starter kits are available on TI.com for the
AM62A (US$249), AM68A (US$249) and AM69A (US$299).
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global
semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, tests and sells
analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as
industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications
equipment and enterprise systems. Our passion to create a better
world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors
is alive today, as each generation of innovation builds upon the
last to make our technology smaller, more efficient, more reliable
and more affordable – making it possible for semiconductors to
go into electronics everywhere. We think of this as Engineering
Progress. It's what we do and have been doing for decades. Learn
more at TI.com.
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