Sipeed MAix BiT for RISC-V AI+IoT

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Sipeed MAix: AI at the edgeAI is pervasive today, from consumer to enterprise applications. With the explosive growth of connected devices, combined with a dema

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Sipeed MAix: AI at the edge

AI is pervasive today, from consumer to enterprise applications. With the explosive growth of connected devices, combined with a demand for privacy/confidentiality, low latency and bandwidth constraints, AI models trained in the cloud increasingly need to be run at the edge.

MAIX is Sipeed’s purpose-built module designed to run AI at the edge, we called it AIoT. It delivers high performance in a small physical and power footprint, enabling the deployment of high-accuracy AI at the edge, and the competitive price make it possible embed to any IoT devices. As you see, Sipeed MAIX is quite like Google edge TPU, but it act as master controller, not an accelerator like edge TPU, so it is more low cost and low power than AP+edge TPU solution.

MAix's Advantage and Usage Scenarios:

MAIX is not only hardware, but also provide an end-to-end, hardware + software infrastructure for facilitating the deployment of customers' AI-based solutions.
Thanks to its performance, small footprint, low power, and low cost, MAIX enables the broad deployment of high-quality AI at the edge.
MAIX isn't just a hardware solution, it combines custom hardware, open software, and state-of-the-art AI algorithms to provide high-quality, easy to deploy AI solutions for the edge.
MAIX can be used for a growing number of industrial use-cases such as predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, machine vision, robotics, voice recognition, and many more. It can be used in manufacturing, on-premise, healthcare, retail, smart spaces, transportation, etc.

Sipeed MAix BiT development board

As many DIYer want build their own work with breadboard, Sipeed newly provide breadboard-friendly board for you, it called MAix BiT

Sipeed Bit Intro

Features

It is twice of M1 size, 1x2 inch size, breadboard-friendly, and also SMT-able
It integrate USB2UART chip, auto download circuit, RGB LED, DVP Camera FPC connector(support small FPC camera and standard M12 camera), MCU LCD FPC connector(support our 2.4 inch QVGA LCD), TF card solt.
MAix BiT is able to adjust core voltage! you can adjust from 0.8V~1.2V, overclock to 800MHz!

Specification

CPU : RISC-V Dual Core 64bit, 400MHz adjustable	Powerful dual-core 64-bit open architecture-based processor with rich community resources
Debugging Support	High-speed UART and JTAG interface for debugging
GPIO interface	All GPIOs connected to header 2*20 2.54mm
Micro SD card（TF card） slot	Support Self-elastic card holder
One-click Download circuit	Just connect the USB typeC cable to complete the download Onborad CH340, which support 2Mbps baudrate
DVP Camera connector	24P 0.5mm FPC connector
LCD connector	8bit MCU LCD 24P 0.5mm FPC connector
Button	RST button and USR button

MAix's CPU

In hardware, MAIX have powerful KPU K210 inside, it offers many excited features:
1st competitive RISC-V chip, also 1st competitive AI chip, newly release in Sep. 2018
28nm process, dual-core RISC-V 64bit IMAFDC, on-chip huge 8MB high-speed SRAM (not for XMR :D), 400MHz frequency (able to 800MHz)
KPU (Neural Network Processor) inside, 64 KPU which is 576bit width, support convolution kernels, any form of activation function. It offers [email protected],400MHz, when overclock to 800MHz, it offers 0.5TOPS. It means you can do object recognition 60fps@VGA
APU (Audio Processor) inside, support 8mics, up to 192KHz sample rate, hardcore FFT unit inside, easy to make a Mic Array (MAIX offer it too)
Flexible FPIOA (Field Programmable IO Array), you can map 255 functions to all 48 GPIOs on the chip
DVP camera and MCU LCD interface, you can connect an DVP camera, run your algorithm, and display on LCD
Many other accelerators and peripherals: AES Accelerator, SHA256 Accelerator, FFT Accelerator (not APU's one), OTP, UART, WDT, IIC, SPI, I2S, TIMER, RTC, PWM, etc.

MAix's Module

Inherit the advantage of K210's small footprint, Sipeed MAIX-I module, or called M1, integrate K210, 3-channel DC-DC power, 8MB/16MB/128MB Flash (M1w module add wifi chip esp8285 on it) into Square Inch Module. All usable IO breaks out as 1.27mm(50mil) pins, and pin's voltage is selectable from 3.3V and 1.8V.

Sipeed Maix block pin

MAix's SoftWare

MAIX support original standalone SDK, FreeRTOS SDK base on C/C++.
And we port micropython on it: https://maixpy.sipeed.com/en/ It support FPIOA, GPIO, TIMER, PWM, Flash, OV2640, LCD, etc. And it have zmodem, vi, SPIFFS on it, you can edit python directly or sz/rz file to board. We are glad to see you contribute for it:
https://github.com/sipeed/MaixPy //Maixpy project
https://github.com/sipeed/MaixPy_Doc_Us_En_Backup //Maixpy wiki project

MAix's Deep learning

MAIX support fixed-point model that the mainstream training framework trains, according to specific restriction rules, and have model compiler to compile models to its own model format.
It support tiny-yolo, mobilenet-v1, and, TensorFlow Lite! Many TensorFlow Lite model can be compiled and run on MAIX! And We will soon release model shop, you can trade your model on it.

SOFTWARE FEATURES
FreeRtos & Standard SDK	Support FreeRtos and Standrad development kit.
MicroPython Support	Support MicroPython on M1
Machine vision	Machine vision based on convolutional neural network
Machine hearing	High performance microphone array processor
ELECTRICAL SPEC
Supply voltage of external power supply	4.8V ~ 5.2V
Supply current of external power supply	>600mA
Temperature rise	<30K
Range of working temperature	-30℃ ~ 85℃

Part List

Sipeed MAix Bit x 1

ECCN/HTS

HSCODE	8543709990
USHSCODE	85177000
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