The growing demand for efficiency in battery operated devices requires software optimization techniques tightly coupled to the underlying silicon. Synaptics’ Katana SoC co-optimized with Eta Compute’s TENSAI® Flow software creates a complete platform that combines the industry’s most efficient AI compiler with an extensive set of performance and power optimized libraries.
The Katana Edge AI platform addresses a growing industry gap for solutions that enable battery powered devices for consumer and industrial IoT markets. The platform combines Synaptics’ proven low power SoC architecture with energy-efficient AI software, enabled by a partnership with Eta Compute.
The Katana solution is optimized for a wide range of ultra-low power use cases in edge devices for office buildings, retail, factories, farms and smart homes. Typical applications include people or object recognition and counting, visual, voice or sound detection, asset or inventory tracking and environmental sensing.
It features a multi-core processor architecture optimized for ultra-low-power and low latency voice, audio and vision applications. The full system SoC combines proprietary power and energy optimized neural network and domain specific processing cores, significant on-chip memory, and extensive use of multiple architectural techniques that save power for each unique mode of operation.
The Katana Edge AI platform can be combined with Synaptics’ market-leading wireless connectivity offerings to provide complete system level modules and solutions.
Hordon Kim
International Editor, hordon@powerelectronics.co.kr
