Avnet has introduced a brand new growth equipment on the Embedded Imaginative and prescient Summit 2024, constructed round a SMARC-standard computer-on-module (COM) that includes the Qualcomm QCS6490 chip: the Avnet QCS6490 Imaginative and prescient-AI Improvement Equipment.
Designed, because the title suggests, for initiatives involving energy-efficient but high-performance on-device pc imaginative and prescient and synthetic intelligence (AI), the Qualcomm QCS6490 on the coronary heart of the board boasts 4 high-performance Arm Cortex-A78 cores working at as much as 2.7GHz alongside 4 lower-power Cortex-A55 cores working at as much as 1.9GHz. There’s an Adreno 643 graphics processor working at as much as 812MHz, together with a Qualcomm AI Engine neural processing unit (NPU).
Avnet is seeking to energy your subsequent edge AI pc imaginative and prescient challenge with its new QCS6490 Imaginative and prescient-AI Improvement Equipment. (📷: Avnet)
It is this latter part that delivers on the event equipment’s promise of energy-efficient on-device AI: based mostly on Qualcomm’s sixth-generation NPU structure, it delivers 13 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute on high of that obtainable from the CPU and GPU. For additional acceleration in pc imaginative and prescient duties there’s an Adreno 633 imaginative and prescient processor able to encoding and decoding video at up 4k30 and 4k60 respectively and a Spectra 570L picture sign processor (ISP) able to working as much as 5 cameras without delay.
To this, Avnet has added 8GB of high-speed LPDDR5 reminiscence and 64GB of UFS flash storage on a computer-on-module adhering to the SMARC 2.1.1 normal — designed to fit right into a bundled service board that breaks out two USB 3.1, two USB 2.0, and one USB Kind-C On-The-Go (OTG) ports, a gigabit Ethernet port, mini-DisplayPort and MIPI Show Serial Interface (DSI) video outputs, one four-lane and one two-lane MIPI Digital camera Serial Interface (CSI) inputs alongside two four-lane connectors on the module itself, a four-pin CAN bus header, 40-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header adhering to the Raspberry Pi pinout, and two user-definable buttons and an RGB LED.
The equipment makes full use of the Qualcomm QCS6490, breaking out the vast majority of its options on the bundled service board. (📷: Avnet)
For extra storage, the service board consists of an M.2 M-key slot for Non-Unstable Reminiscence Categorical (NVMe) boards, whereas a second M.2 E-key slot permits for the addition of an optionally available IEEE 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.4 radio module. Lastly, there’s an audio subsystem with analog and digital connections and two on-board PDM microphones. A second gigabit Ethernet port is current on the SMARC COM, too, however not uncovered on the bundled service board.
The COM and its service are to be made obtainable as a part of a equipment, which features a 5.1V 5A USB Kind-C Energy Supply (PD) energy provide and a 12 megapixel Sony IMX477-based digicam module, with further cameras obtainable as optionally available extras alongside the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module, NVMe SSDs, and a seven-inch DSI touchscreen show. For software program, the equipment will ship with a Yocto Linux board help bundle (BSP) and pre-written AI and multi-camera demos; help for Home windows 11 IoT Enterprise has been promised for the second half of the 12 months.
The service consists of two M.2 slots, one M-key for NVMe storage and one E-key for optionally available Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. (📷: Avnet)
The brand new growth equipment is being demonstrated on the Avnet sales space (#404) in the course of the Embedded Imaginative and prescient Summit, alongside different reside demos together with an AI-powered good parking zone monitor system constructed with Avnet’s RZBoard V2L, edge AI sensor fusion with customized machine studying fashions from MACSO and Avnet’s IoTConnect platform, and a preview of an upcoming growth equipment based mostly across the AMD Versal Edge AI system-on-chip.
Extra data on the brand new QCS6490 Imaginative and prescient-AI Improvement Equipment is out there on the Avnet web site; pricing had but to be introduced on the time of writing.