Solutions for AI SoC Designs
Micro-IP aims to provide high quality AI SoC design services, including IP design, optimization, integration, and verification. User can leverage the extensive AI SoC experience of Micro-IP.
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MicroIP Services:
ARM/RISCV with Co-Processor
(Accelerator)
► DNN models in PyTorch, ONNX
▷ MobileNet, ResNet-18, ResNet-34
► MAC Optimizer
▷ Tensor optimizations, memory planning, data layout transformation
► System level performance evaluation
▷ TLM model + cycle-accurate ISS
▷ For example: ARM v8.0-A / Cache + Accelerator +
▷ On-chip SRAM buffer + DRAM controller + DRAM
► Profiling system characteristics
▷ Computation bottleneck
▷ Size of data communication / bandwidth requirement
▷ On-chip buffer sizes
▷ Overhead of DRAM controller
▷ Impact of DRAM data mapping / latency
► Prototyping on ARM/FPGA: system synthesis and code-gen
MicroIP Services:
ARM/FPGA as Reconfigurable
AI Accelerator
► An example of AI processing for image/audio applications
► Use FPGA as an AI accelerator
▷ Cost-efficient for low/mid volume production
▷ Performance/low-power advantages over CPU
► ARM facilitates user interface and software stacks
► Leverage existing IPs for image/audio processing
► MicroIP can help system design, customization, optimization, integration (SOM/SIP/ASIC)
MicroIP Services:
AI-SoC / Architecture Design Consulting
► ML application market is really diverse, and requires customization
▷ Application models, system specifications, performance requirements, software stacks, target platforms, etc.
► As expert of SoC design and AI, Micro-IP provides end-to-end design, exploration, and optimization
▷ Early evaluation of full system performance/cost (CPU + cache + DLA + DRAM)
▷ Prototyping of customized AI accelerator (on FPGA)
▷ Accelerate a trained NN on AI accelerator (on FPGA / SoC)
– With support of audio/video processing units
▷ Integrate using multi-chip SIPs or SoC with eFPGA (on SoC)
► Micro-IP provides architecture consulting
▷ Over 20+ years of architecture/SoC design experience
▷ Architectures, task mapping/scheduling, system evaluation, performance tradeoffs, etc.
▷ Help fine-tuning, and design customization to create market differentiation
