Artificial intelligence to the terminal application The spirit to launch special software stack

Source：Updated：2017-03-30 08:14:20

Artificial intelligence (AI) from the cloud server to the network edge, built-in directly to all kinds of Internet of things (IoT) device, has become the development trend of stop. Because of this, the field programmable gate array (FPGA) suppliers think (Xilinx) announced that the spirit will be on the basis of its existing embedded visual solutions, strengthening of machine learning (MachineLearning) and so on the function of artificial intelligence support, and launch a reVISION software stack. 
 
Spirit, industry, science, and medical (ISM) marketing senior technical manager Luo Lin said, artificial intelligence has become an important trend for the development of science and technology industry, and from the core (data center) to the edge (of various kinds of networking device) diffusion trend is very obvious. However, due to the lack of corresponding Library (Library), and other auxiliary software stack, application developers often must be from the beginning to the end by his own strength for development, the schedule is very long, so the project development and requires a lot of human. 
 
In order to solve this problem, the spirit, announced reVISION software stack solution. New reVISION stack allows for hardware design is not familiar with the software and systems engineers, also can more easily and more quickly development support embedded visual application of artificial intelligence. Such applications include advanced consumer products, automotive, industrial, medical, and aerospace and defense, and other fields, collaboration, and a new generation of applications include robot, a sensor and collision avoidance function of unmanned aerial vehicle (uav), augmented reality, automatic car driving, automatic monitoring and diagnosis, etc. In these applications, in addition to the differentiation is essential, the system also must have a fast reaction ability, quick deployment and the latest algorithms and sensors, about two-thirds of the visual direction semiconductor applications belong to the market. 
 
ReVISION for the response to the immediate visual system to the development of the market, the fastest way, compared with the traditional embedded GPU, SoC solution, spirit to machine learning inference scheme based on FPGA, the images per second per watt efficiency promoted up to 6 times per second, computer vision, per watt 40 times per frame processing speed is improved, and the delay is only one 5. Even to be unfamiliar with hardware developers can use C, C + + language or OpenCL collocation such as Caffe and OpenCV such industry standard framework and library, in ZynqSoC or MPSoC chip platform to develop a variety of embedded visual application. 
 
In fact, the FPGA to realize the artificial intelligence application, has the very big advantage. Evolution is very fast in the field of artificial intelligence, which has the advantages of the links can restructure and support all of the FPGA, to modify or upgrade can easily, so that in the shortest possible time to support a new artificial intelligence algorithms. Artificial neural network, algorithm, the sensor technology and interface standards will continue to accelerate the evolution, reconfigurable characteristics for intelligent visual system supporting the future demand is very important. 
 
The spirit, reVISION stack for numerous r&d resources in platform, algorithms, and applications in the areas of development. Including the most popular type of neural network for support such as AlexNet, GoogLeNet, SqueezeNet, SSD, and FCN. In addition, the stack provides library element, contains a convolutional neural network (CNN) layered predefined and operation optimization, to establish customization artificial neural network (within DNN/CNN). Machine learning component with many operation accelerate OpenCV function, is used to perform computer vision processing jobs. In regard to the development of application level, and the spirit support industry standards framework, including Caffe designed for machine learning and computer vision OpenVX. ReVISION stack also contains the spirit your thoughts on the development platform, with a third party contains many kinds of sensors.