Roviero is joining the Arm AI Partner Program to bring AI and general-purpose compute as a packaged product to customers in the edge IoT space.
Roviero’s CortiCore processor architecture is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) IP for edge System On Chip (SoC) solutions. CortiCore provides power, area and programmability while scaling in performance from less than 1 TOPS to more than 500 TOPS.
“In talking to our customers we hear two key concerns in integrating AI IP in their SoC solutions: firstly, efforts needed by their team to integrate and maintain the associated runtime software and secondly future-proofing the SoC against new requirements after the SoC has been built. Our team has created a solution based on Arm microcontrollers and associated software that addresses these concerns,” said Ravi Setty, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Roviero.
The CortiCore runtime software has been integrated with the Arm host software. With this, customers can instantiate CortiCore runtime software with the click of a button. With the instantiation, the application software gets access to the function calls to invoke the AI acceleration and get its response back, simplifying the AI acceleration when running on Arm-based solutions. As a CortiCore architecture extension, Arm microcontrollers are embedded deep into the AI compute. Customers can pick which Arm microcontrollers they need depending on the application space. The runtime software on CortiCore seamlessly transfers control to the microcontroller and then back to the AI compute engines.
Roviero’s CortiCore AI IP can be integrated seamlessly with Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers and high-performance Cortex-A processors, to create edge-based computing devices with integrated machine learning capabilities. There are a plethora of SoC configurations that can be enabled due to configurable options provided by Roviero’s IP. Software plays an important role in creating an edge computing device with machine learning capabilities and Roviero’s software works seamlessly on Arm-based processors, providing end-to-end integration that can reduce time to market for our end customers.
