Synaptics expands into low power edge AI applications with new platform

Synaptics has unveiled the Katana Edge AI platform, as it looks to address a growing industry gap for solutions that enable battery powered devices for consumer and industrial IoT markets.

The platform combines Synaptics’ low power SoC architecture with energy-efficient AI software, enabled by a partnership with Eta Compute. The solution has been optimised 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.

The Katana platform features a multi-core processor architecture that's been optimised for ultra-low-power and low latency voice, audio and vision applications. The full system SoC combines proprietary power and energy optimised 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’ wireless connectivity offerings to provide complete system level modules and solutions.

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