Embedded electronics specialist Sipeed has introduced the beta launch of an all-in-one growth system designed for sensible digicam and edge laptop imaginative and prescient initiatives, constructed round a Sophgo SG2002 system-on-chip: the Sipeed MaixCAM.
“MaixCAM [is the] Sipeed new era RISC-V AI [Artificial Intelligence] digicam,” the corporate says of its newest {hardware} design. “[It] comes with quite a few built-in functions which might be prepared to make use of with out programming, [and] additionally can be utilized as a UART module suitable [with] Python/C++ API [Application Programming Interface].”
Sipeed’s MaixCAM provides an all-in-one platform for edge laptop imaginative and prescient work, whereas the Lite model trims the fats by dropping the show. (📷: Sipeed)
To show it, Sipeed has proven off a collection of demos that come pre-loaded onto the MaixCAM’s elective microSD card, delivered to our consideration by CNX Software program. These embody object classification, object detection and site, face recognition, pose estimation, trajectory monitoring, optical character recognition, voice recognition, and a “self-learning detector,” which it claims “immediately learns and detects any object and place on the system, no PC coaching required.”
The chip driving the sensible digicam system is an uncommon beast: the SG2002, together with the lower-performance SG2000, contains no fewer than 4 separate processor architectures. Along with two 1GHz application-class cores, one an Arm Cortex-A53 and the opposite a T-Head C906 RISC-V core, the chip features a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) for machine studying workloads and a microcontroller core that implements Intel’s 8051 structure — initially launched again in 1980. If that is not sufficient, the chip additionally features a second C906 RISC-V core for real-time use, a picture sign processor with {hardware} H.264/H.265/MJPEG codec, and an on-board 16-bit audio codec.
To this, Sipeed has added 256MB of DDR3 reminiscence, a 2.3″ IPS touchscreen show with a 552×368 decision, an audio amplifier and on-board microphone, Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 Low Vitality (BLE) radio, a USB 2.0 Kind-C connector for information and energy, two 14-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) headers, and a four-lane MIPI Digicam Serial Interface (CSI) good for as much as 5 megapixel sensors.
Variants bundled with a microSD card provide pre-loaded demos for all the pieces from optical character recognition to pose estimation. (📷: Sipeed)
For these seeking to built-in the tech elsewhere, the corporate can be providing a “Lite” model which lacks the show — whereas all fashions include a 4 megapixel rolling-shutter shade digicam sensor as normal, with one-megapixel global-shutter, thermal imaging, and depth sensing sensors obtainable as elective extras.
All MaixCAM fashions can be found to order on the Sipeed AliExpress retailer, beginning at $27.90 for the Lite variant with out microSD card; the corporate is, nonetheless, describing them as being a “beta model.” Further data is on the market on the Sipeed wiki.
