“For edge computing in our target markets, offloading vision applications on a high-performance, low-power, highly flexible DSP is a must,” noted Lazaar Louis, senior director of product management and marketing for Tensilica IP at Cadence. “Cadence has a long and successful track record spanning six generations of Vision DSPs, and the Vision Q7 DSP was designed to address the needs of our key customers deploying highly complex vision and AI algorithms, including SLAM for perception. The Vision Q7 DSP strengthens our very successful automotive portfolio, bringing leading-edge computation to the ‘computer in the car’ that can be compliant with safety requirements like ISO 26262.”
The Vision Q7 DSP supports AI applications developed in the Caffe, TensorFlow and TensorFlowLite frameworks through the Tensilica Xtensa® Neural Network Compiler (XNNC), which maps neural networks into executable and highly optimized high-performance code for the Vision Q7 DSP. The Vision Q7 DSP also supports the Android Neural Network (ANN) API for on-device AI acceleration in Android-powered devices, and the software environment also features complete and optimized support for more than 1,700 OpenCV-based vision library functions, enabling fast, high-level migration of existing vision applications. In addition, development tools and libraries are all designed to enable SoC vendors to achieve ISO 26262 automotive safety integrity level D (ASIL D) certification.
The Vision Q7 DSP has been sampled to strategic customers and is expected to be available for general release in the second quarter of 2019.
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