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Vendor:
Batik Semiconductor
Category:
NPU
AI Accelerator Specifically for CNN
Our IP inference accelerators enhance AI computations, providing outstanding performance across various applications.
Overview
Our IP inference accelerators enhance AI computations, providing outstanding performance across various applications. Whether your needs involve real-time object detection, natural language processing, image recognition, or other AI tasks, our accelerators empower quicker and more effective AI processing, elevating the competitiveness of your applications.
Parameterizeable AI Accelerator (GenCore) includes several SystemVerilog RTL kernels, such as DataFetcher, Conv+ReLU, MaxPooling and DataWriter.
Parameterizeable AI Accelerator (GenCore) includes several SystemVerilog RTL kernels, such as DataFetcher, Conv+ReLU, MaxPooling and DataWriter.
Key features
- A specialized hardware with controlled throughput and hardware cost/resources, utilizing parameterizeable layers, configurable weights, and precision settings to support fixed-point operations.
- This hardware aim to accelerate inference operations, particulary for CNNs such as LeNet-5, VGG-16, VGG-19, AlexNet, ResNet-50, etc.
- Customers also have flexibility to customize their own CNN models and adapt them to this hardware, specifying the number of layers, weights, and bit configurations supporting fixed-point up to 16 bits.
Block Diagram
GenCore block diagram
Benefits
- The cascaded kernels deep pipeline streamlines basic CNN operations, eliminating the need to store interlayer data externally. This reduces memory bandwidth demands, crucial for embedded FPGAs and ASICs.
- We use a single hardware kernel for convolution and fully connected layers, improving overall resource efficiency.
Applications
- CNN
- Support for Transformer's LLM models is in progress or can be tailored to meet customer needs
What’s Included?
- RTL Files
- MATLAB Models
- Guidance Support to Customized CNN Models for Customer
Files
Note: some files may require an NDA depending on provider policy.
Specifications
Identity
Part Number
GenCore
Vendor
Batik Semiconductor
Type
Silicon IP
Provider
Batik Semiconductor
HQ:
Indonesia
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Frequently asked questions about NPU IP cores
What is AI Accelerator Specifically for CNN?
AI Accelerator Specifically for CNN is a NPU IP core from Batik Semiconductor listed on Semi IP Hub.
How should engineers evaluate this NPU?
Engineers should review the overview, key features, supported foundries and nodes, maturity, deliverables, and provider information before shortlisting this NPU IP.
Can this semiconductor IP be compared with similar products?
Yes. Buyers can compare this product with similar semiconductor IP cores or IP families based on category, provider, process options, and structured technical specifications.