- Empowering IoT innovators to build custom smart sensing SoCs at
negligible upfront cost
- Utilizes fully open-source hardware and software to optimize
edge AI applications
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 8, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- SensiML™ Corporation, a leader in AI software
for IoT and a subsidiary of QuickLogic (NASDAQ: QUIK), today
announced a strategic partnership with Efabless, a pioneer in
custom semiconductor SoC development. This collaboration addresses
a key challenge in IoT development: the high cost and complexity of
building optimized, application-specific AI at the edge. Together,
SensiML and Efabless aim to simplify and accelerate this process by
delivering fully open-source, customizable solutions designed to
unlock the potential of intelligent IoT devices.
With a shared vision for transparency and open-source
innovation, SensiML and Efabless are addressing two of the most
complex challenges in IoT development:
- Sourcing silicon optimized to suit the unique requirements of a
particular IoT edge product at low cost and power while providing
the right mix of on-board peripherals and processing to meet the
specific use case
- Implementing responsive and accurate sensor AI inference models
capable of running entirely within these resource-constrained edge
devices
This partnership makes developing advanced AI-driven solutions
accessible by reducing the complexity and cost of designing both
hardware and AI models for edge IoT applications.
"We're excited to be collaborating with Efabless to offer a
comprehensive development pathway for intelligent edge devices,"
said Chris Rogers, CEO of SensiML.
"By combining our strengths, our combined open-source solution will
allow engineers to develop their AI workload and custom SoC in
unison, empowering them to innovate and optimize intelligent IoT
devices well beyond what is possible with stock hardware and
general-purpose AI frameworks."
Complementary Expertise for Next-Gen IoT Solutions
Efabless's pioneering approach to custom SoC development enables
companies that once found designing silicon too expensive or
complex to build application-specific hardware in mere months
through the chipIgnite program. Meanwhile, SensiML's AutoML
software provides embedded developers with the tools to rapidly
build efficient AI models, even without extensive data science
expertise. Together, the partnership opens doors to sophisticated
edge AI solutions that were previously out of reach for many
developers.
"Our partnership with SensiML brings the power of custom
silicon within reach for developers working on cutting-edge machine
learning applications," said Mohamed
Kassem, CTO of Efabless. "By combining Efabless' accessible
chip design platform with SensiML's advanced AI tools, innovators
can develop custom hardware solutions up to 10x more
energy-efficient than off-the-shelf alternatives."
A Comprehensive, Open-Source Workflow for Edge AI
Development
This partnership enables a seamless hardware-software
development workflow built fully on open-source technologies
suitable for sensor data analytics at the IoT edge. Developers can
leverage Efabless's open-source RISC-V processor core, a variety of
open-source IP hardware libraries (I/O, memory, communications, and
DSP/ML accelerators), and SensiML's open-source Piccolo AI™ AutoML
toolchain to transform raw sensor data into highly efficient,
on-device inference models.
Live Demo at Embedded World USA
Attendees at Embedded World USA
in Austin, TX this week can see
this collaboration in action. SensiML and Efabless will showcase a
live demo of a power-optimized keyword recognition system, which
highlights the efficiency of SensiML's voice recognition models
running on Efabless custom silicon.
For more information about the SensiML and Efabless partnership,
visit Efabless at booth 2535 at Embedded World USA or inquire further at
info@sensiml.com.
About Efabless
Efabless offers a platform applying
open source and community models to enable a global community of
chip experts and non-experts to collaboratively design, share,
prototype and commercialize special purpose chips. Over the past
three years, 1,400 designs and six hundred tapeouts have been
executed on Efabless. The company's customers include startups,
Fortune 500 companies, universities, and research institutions
around the world. For more information, please visit
efabless.com.
About SensiML
SensiML, a subsidiary of QuickLogic
(NASDAQ: QUIK), offers cutting-edge software that enables ultra-low
power IoT endpoints that implement AI to transform raw sensor data
into meaningful insight at the device itself. The company's
flagship solution, the SensiML Analytics Toolkit, provides an
end-to-end development platform spanning data collection, labeling,
algorithm and firmware auto-generation, and testing. The SensiML
Toolkit supports a growing list of hardware including 8/16/32-bit
MCUs from Microchip®, Arm® Cortex®-M class and higher
microcontroller cores, Intel® x86 instruction set processors, and
heterogeneous core AI/ML optimized SoCs. For more information,
visit sensiml.com.
SensiML and logo are trademarks of SensiML. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective holders and should
be treated as such.
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