Sipeed MAIX I module w/o WiFi ( 1st RISC V 64
AI Module, K210 inside )
SKU 114991695
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Sipeed MAix: AI at the edge
AI is perv asive toda y, from consumer to enterprise applications. With the explosive growth
of connected devices, combined w ith a demand for privacy/confidentiality, low latency and
bandwidth constrai nts, AI models trained in the cloud increasingly need to be run at
the edge.
MAIX is Sipeeds purposebuilt m o d ule designed to run AI at the edge, we called it AIoT. It
delivers high performance in a small physical and power footpri nt, enabling the
deployment of highaccuracy 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 endto end, hardware + software
infrastructure for facilitating the deployment of customers' AIbased solutions.
Thanks to its performance, small footprint, low power, an d low cost, MAIX enables the
broad deployment of hi ghquality AI at the edge.
MAIX isn't just a hardware solut ion, it combines custom hardware, open software, and
stateoftheart AI algorithms t o provide highquality, easy to deploy AI solutions for the
edge.
MAIX can be used for a growing number of industrial usecases 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.
MAix's CPU
In hardware, MAIX have powerful KPU K210 inside, it offers many excited f eatures:
1st competitive RISCV chip, also 1st competitive AI chip, newly re lease in Sep. 2018
28nm process, dualcore RISCV 64 bit IMAFDC, onchip huge 8MB highspeed SRAM (not
for XMR :D), 400MHz frequency (able to 800MHz)
KPU (Neural Network Processor) i nside, 64 KPU which is 576bit width, support
convolution kernels, any form of act ivat ion function. It offers
0.25TOPS@0.3W,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 ins ide, e asy to make a Mic Array (MAIX offer it t oo)
Flexible FPIOA (Field Programmabl e IO Array), you can map 255 f unct ions 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, TIM ER, RTC, PWM, etc.
MAix's Module
Inherit the advantage of K210's small footprint, Sipeed MAIXI module, or called M1,
integrate K210, 3channel DCDC power, 8MB/16MB/128MB Flash (M1 w module add wifi
chip esp8285 on it) into Square I nch Module. All usable IO brea ks out as 1.27mm(50mil)
pins, and pin's voltage is selectable from 3.3V and 1.8V .