Summary of ENABLING AI ON THE EDGE WITH IWAVE’S CORAZON-AI
The article discusses iWave’s Corazon-AI, an Edge AI device built on the Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC designed for real-time decision-making on edge devices. It features a rugged, compact Pico-ITX form factor and supports multiple camera inputs and high-speed connectivity options. The device efficiently runs complex neural networks and deep learning algorithms with low latency and power consumption, making it suitable for smart surveillance, autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging applications.
Parts used in the Corazon-AI Edge AI Solution:
- Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC
- Pico-ITX form factor board (100mm x 72mm)
- Interfaces for 8 IP cameras
- USB camera interfaces
- SDI camera interface
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports
- 802.11 ac Wi-Fi module
- Bluetooth 5.0 module
- M.2 expansion slot for 3G/4G/5G modem
- M.2 expansion slot for MSATA/NVMe SSD storage
- Dual CAN interfaces
- USB 3.0 ports
Edge devices have found their way into smart surveillance, autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging. With a growing requirement for making decisions on the edge and data privacy concerns, there is a requirement for intelligent devices capable of making real-time decisions.
The Edge AI devices are expected to run complex neural networks and deep learning algorithms while maintaining low latency, power efficiency, and accuracy.
iWave’s Corazon-AI built on Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC is designed to overcome these challenges. The rugged and innovative FPGA-based AI Inference engine with a Pico -ITX form factor (100mm x 72mm) is coupled with multiple connectivity options while supporting multiple cameras.
The EdgeAI solution provides interfaces to connect 8 IP cameras, multiple USB cameras, and SDI Camera. These options provide the ability to capture multi-angle high-resolution video frames that are proactively processed by the in-built AI Inference engine. The solution also supports a wide range of high-speed connectivity options such as Dual Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 ac Wi-Fi, BT 5.0, 3G/4G/5G support via an M.2 expansion slot, Dual CAN and USB3.0. There is also a provision for extended storage for an MSATA / NVMe SSD via an M.2 expansion slot. The suite of connectivity help customers towards various use cases based on the on-premise architecture and requirement.
The EdgeAI Solution is built around a highly adaptive MPSoC that features a heterogeneous Arm® + FPGA architecture providing customers the advantage of using the processor cores as a regular SoC for high-level management functionalities such as system boot, peripherals management,
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