Ceva's Standalone Low-Power Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs Get a Dedicated IDE, Edge Impulse Integration
Designed to run without a host processor, the Ceva-NeuPro-Nano is now even easier to get up and running.
Edge artificial intelligence (AI), tiny machine learning (tinyML), and Internet of Things (IoT) specialist Ceva has announced the release of an enhanced developer toolkit, designed to make it easier to use its Ceva-NeuPro-Nano low-power standalone neural processing units (NPUs) — along with support for Edge Impulse Studio integration.
"The rapid adoption of our Ceva-NeuPro-Nano Embedded AI NPUs is a testament to our team's dedication to pushing the boundaries of embedded AI," claims Ceva's Chad Lucien. "MCU [Microcontroller Unit] and AIoT [Artificial Intelligence of Things] semiconductor companies have praised the Ceva-NeuPro-Nano's efficiency as an NPU and its ability to simultaneously handle the demands of neural network compute, feature extraction and processing complex DSP [Digital Signal Processing] workloads all in a self-contained architecture. Our latest customer wins and enhanced Ceva-NeuPro Studio demonstrate our commitment to delivering innovative solutions that empower our customers to create intelligent, efficient, and scalable edge AI applications."
The Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs, designed for low-power artificial intelligence and machine learning acceleration in embedded systems and capable of running without a host processor, are available as licensable Intellectual Property (IP) in 32 and 64 MAC variants — and since their launch, the company has been hard at work to make developing for them as easy as possible. The biggest breakthrough: the release of Ceva-NeuPro Studio, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) that provides inference code generation and execution, simulation, emulation, debugging, and access to a model zoo.
In its latest release, the Ceva-NeuPro Studio also boasts integration with Edge Impulse Studio, which Ceva claims delivers rapid evaluation of models even before going hands-on with Ceva-NeuPro-Nano hardware, speedier deployment and retaining through the NVIDIA TAO Toolkit, streamlined development, and easier prototyping and testing. To prove those claims, Ceva is running live demos at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week at the Venetian Ballroom Bassano Booth #2709.
More information on the Ceva-NeuPro-Nano is available on the company's website; Ceva-NeuPro Studio is detailed on a separate page.