66859aaf936827cc74986538 Ambarella N1llm Promo

AI SoC Targets High Performance Video and Radar Applications

July 3, 2024

Ambarellas's N1 system-on-chip incorporates the CVflow Vision AI core with sixteen Cortex-A78AE cores.

Ambarella N1 system-on-chip (SoC) connects an array of image and radar sensors to the CVflow artificial intelligence (AI) vision processing system (Fig. 1). The platform targets demanding vision and radar applications that require real-time processing such as industrial automation, robotics and automotive vehicles.

1. Ambarella's N1 system-on-chip (SoC) blends a 16 core Arm Corex-A78AE compute complex with a CVflow Vision AI Processor to handle an array of image and radar sensors.

The CVflow suport includes a neural vector processor (NVP) and a general vector processor (GVP). These are design to handle machine learning (ML) models in realtime.

The N1 is built around a sixteen core, Arm Cortex-A78AE processing island. It also includes an image signal processor (ISP) and a stereo and dense optical flow processor. The latter can utilize multiple sensor inputs to generate a 3D point cloud.

The system is designed to interface with users through a display subsystem that includes a GPU with hardware video codec suport. The Hardware Security Module (HSM) is designed to protect against attacks with support for DRAM scrambling and domain isolation.

Links

About the Author

William G. Wong | Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

You can send press releases for new products for possible coverage on the website. I am also interested in receiving contributed articles for publishing on our website. Use our template and send to me along with a signed release form.

Check out my blog, AltEmbedded on Electronic Design, as well as his latest articles on this site that are listed below.

You can visit my social media via these links:

I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.

I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence.