Realtime Edge AI SoC for Computing Vision Applications

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Introduction to the Sophon Edge AI system-on-chip featuring an INT8 TPU accelerator designed for low-power, real-time deep learning inference on edge devices. Coverage includes the 96Boards hardware platform, the accompanying toolchain, and concrete computer-vision use cases that run on this solution.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:34BITMAIN: A HPC (High performance computing) Company focusing on Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
3. 2:22BITMAIN: A Global Company
4. 2:48Growing IC sales 2.5B USD revenue in 2017
5. 3:25Big Data drives DL Computing Demand from Cloud to Edge
6. 5:22CNN Based FR Eacial Recognition takes Tera-Level FLOPS
7. 7:11Rising Demand for Al computing Power → ASIC replaces CPU&GPU
8. 8:06Edge Al Applications
9. 9:33BM1880: WW first INT8 ASIC Edge TPU
10. 13:34BM1880: High Performance, Low Power Edge Al SoC
11. 14:17BM1880 Products and developer community
12. 16:03Module/Developer board fast entry to the market and cultivate the ecosystem
13. 17:59BM1880 Edge Development Board
14. 19:44Official developer forum - Technical article, forum, community, and online support
15. 20:25Comprehensive Toolchain for integrating Al Algorithms Toolchain for converting trained Model into Sophon ASIC
16. 20:53Complete Al models support
17. 21:37BM1880 EDB Application Scenario - USB/SoC Mode Application Scenario
18. 22:21BM1880 EDB Application Scenario - Workflow
19. 23:05BM1880 EDB application - Face detection and FR
20. 25:22BM1880 EDB Application - Object detection Yolo v2 (darknet)
21. 26:46BM1880 EDB Example - Open Pose Implementation
22. 27:42Pose Detection Demo
23. 28:11BM1880 products Introduction
24. 28:46Join BM1880 Developer Commiunity

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