USB stick type CNN module "Orange Pi AI Stick" capable of executing inference processing

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USB stick type CNN module that can execute inference processing on Unipos website Orange Pi AI Stick Page has been added.

Orange Pi AI Stick is an AI stick of Orange Pi series, a small board computer developed in Shenzhen, China. Inference processing can be performed by connecting a USB stick type module to the machine.

It is equipped with Gyrfalcon Technology's CNN accelerator chip Lightspeeur 2801S, and its proprietary technology, APiM (AI Processing in Memory), realizes high-speed arithmetic processing and low power consumption. (With a low power consumption of 300mW, processing performance of 2.8TOPS).

【Main Specifications】

AI Processor
– Series of the Chip: Lightspeeur
– Module of the Chip: SPR2801S
– High Energy Efficiency: 9.3 TOPs / Watt
– Ultra Low Power: 2.8 TOPs @ 300mW
– Best Peak Performance: 5.6 TOPs @ 100MHz
– Hardware Interface: SDIO3.0 eMMC 4.5
– Sealed Package of the Chip: BGA (7mm * 7mm)
–Fabrication Process: 28nm

Connection Type : USB 2.0, USB3.0 Type-A

Speed ​​(MAX) : read bandwidth = 68.00 MB / s, write bandwidth = 84.69 MB / s

Supported Frameworks : Caffe, PyTorch, (TensorFolow will be supported soon)

Supported models : VGG, SSD

Operating System : X86 Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) ARM Linux ARM Android (ARM v7, ARM v8)

Working Voltage : DC 5V 200mA

Physical Dimension : 66.5 mm x 20.5 mm x 10.8 mm

Training Tool : Plai (“full-stack” Framework Based on PyTorch) *

Software : “SDK of ARM, X86 SDK, Built-in 1-2 model demonstrations; Model training tool Plai”