Chip programming industry leader - ACROVIEW Technologies recently released the latest programming software updates and a list of new supported chip models, among which the burning of Timesintelli's AT1000 series of end-side intelligent computing chips based on RISC-V instruction architecture AT1611 has been supported by ONCO's universal burner AP8000.

The AT1000 (also known as AT1K) is a series of end-side intelligent computing chips based on RISC-V instruction architecture developed by Shiqing Technology. Based on the self-developed and innovative TIMESFORMER intelligent computing architecture and DSA processor, the chip architecture level customization and optimization is carried out from the landing scenario, which has the characteristics of low standby power consumption and short wake-up time, and integrates a wealth of application interfaces and complete low-power modes, which can run the intelligent applications that originally required high-end application processors to be competent at a low cost and system power consumption close to the microcontroller chip.

The AT1000 series currently includes four models of AT1601/AT1611/AT1801/AT1811 to support customer needs for different application scenarios.

AT1611 is an end-side intelligent processing chip launched by Shiqing Technology in 2020, equipped with its self-developed Processesformer Blaster 100 intelligent processor, with 100 GOPS artificial intelligence computing power and multi-core DSP processing power, while supporting MB-level on-chip high-speed SRAM, with flexible and scalable DRAM and Nor Flash and other rich storage resources.

Timesformer intelligent processor AT1611 is based on RISC-V instruction set, for the end side of various voice and vision algorithm requirements of the DSA architecture, not only can friendly support such as acoustic front-end, CV and other DSP algorithms, but also can efficiently support a variety of mainstream neural network models and operators, with high application applicability, cost-effective, energy efficiency ratio characteristics.

With Timesformer, TimesFlow is a "one-click" neural network deployment tool, supporting a variety of mainstream artificial intelligence training frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX, etc., supporting the mainstream optimization methods of various neural network models, such as post-training quantization, training perception quantization, pruning, distillation, etc., and can provide rich tools for debugging and performance analysis.

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS OF AT1611:

· RV32IMCF instruction set TM500 master processor, 300M clock, support floating-point operation and DSP extended instructions;

· 100G high energy efficiency than artificial intelligence computing power, supporting various mainstream neural network models and operators;

· Rich on-chip storage resources: 1MB high-speed SRAM +8M/16M PSRAM + 4M/8M support XIP Flash

· 4+2 channel voice microphone interface, support analog microphone and digital microphone, support stereo voice output, built-in 0.5W power amplifier;

· Complete system security solution

· Rich peripheral interfaces

The main applications of the chip include: omnidirectional microphones, such as conference treasures, pickups; voice intercom, such as wireless doorbells, walkie-talkies; speech recognition and control.

Features:

• Blaster intelligent processor benchmark NPU + DSP, complete AI inference + DSP processing function, the highest computing power of 100GOPS, energy efficiency ratio of more than 2.5 TOPS/W

• Rich storage resources

– 1MB on-chip high-speed SRAM

– Supports 8MB PSRAM with up to 400MB/s access bandwidth

– Support 32Mb/64Mb Nor Flash with 25MB/s access bandwidth

• Supports on-chip voice analog/digital input/ output and processing.

– 4 analog/PDM digital microphone inputs

– 2 x line-in/4 x 12S reference tone inputs

– Supports hardware low power vocal detection module (VAD).

– Stereo two-channel line-out

– Built-in PA support mono speaker output (0.5W@8 Ohms)

• Complete system security mechanism

– Hardware 256-bitAES, SHA-256, 256-bit ECC encryption and decryption engine

– Supports hardware true random number generator and CRC checksum as well as 1KBOTP

• 32-bit T-M500 RISC-V architecture processing core, operating at 300MHz, supporting single-precision floating-point operations

• Supports many different operating modes

– Low power real-time clock (RTC) with a typical current < 1.5 uA

– Hardware vocal detection and wake-up (VAD) with typical current <2mA

– In MCU mode, the typical power consumption is 30mW

– In full-speed mode, the typical power consumption is 100mW

• Rich peripheral interfaces

– 2 x SDIO2.0/4 x UART/2 x SPI/2 x 12C/8 x PWM

– 8 x 10-bitADCs with a sample rate of 1 MSPS

– Dedicated GPIO with wake-up/state-keep support

– Real-time clock/multi-channel timer/look at the doorway timer

– Multiplexed GPIOs can be configured as two independent and simultaneously operating DVPs for image acquisition, with support resolutions up to 640x480@35FPS

• Highly integrated, flexible, low-cost system solutions

– (Optional) Supports 3.3V single-supply input

– 68-pin (7x7), 88-pin (9x9) QFN package

Scope of application

• Smart home

– Home environment 10 meters far field pickup, high-precision recognition, rapid response, standardized program modules and interfaces, offline program to protect the privacy of the user's home environment.

Application examples: intelligent central control, intelligent curtains, intelligent clothes dryers, intelligent lighting

• Smart speaker/story machine

– Support microphone array (double/four-microphone, analog/digital), echo cancellation support wake-up interrupt, sound source localization to identify speaker orientation, ultra-low-power hardware vocal detection, 100+ term keyword recognition, distinguish children's timbre, better natural voice interaction support local speech recognition, local/cloud perfect cooperation.

• Smart appliances

– Strong noise reduction in the home environment, far-field voice recognition, pure offline and offline + online solutions, ultra-low power consumption to meet the national home appliance energy efficiency standards.

Application examples: intelligent range hood, intelligent air conditioner, intelligent electric fan, intelligent water heater

• Intelligent robots

– 10 meters of far-field pickup in the home environment, sound source localization, strong local processing power and performance, standardized solution modules and interfaces, support for voice broadcasting.

Application examples: household robots, sweepers

The AP8000-use recorder independently developed by ACROVIEW Technology includes three parts: the main engine, the bottom plate and the adapter seat.

The host supports USB and NET connections, allowing multiple programmers to be networked to achieve the purpose of controlling multiple programmers to burn at the same time. The built-in chip safety circuit ensures that even short circuits caused by chip backlogging or other reasons can be detected immediately and power off to ensure chip and programmer safety. Embedded high-speed FPGAs greatly accelerate data transmission and processing. There is an SD card slot on the back of the host, the PC software to produce the project files into the root directory of the SD card and inserted into the card slot, through the buttons on the programmer can be selected, loaded, flashed and other commands, in order to achieve the purpose of detaching from the PC can operate, greatly reducing the cost of PC hardware configuration, convenient and rapid collocation with the working environment.

AP8000 through the backplane plus adapter board, so that the host more scalable, has supported all mainstream semiconductor manufacturers produced devices, including TI, ST, MicroChip, Atmel, Hynix, Macronix, Micron, Samsung, Toshiba and so on. Supported device types are NAND, NOR, MCU, CPLD, FPGA, EMMC, etc., including Intel Hex, Motorola S, Binary, POF and other file formats.

About Timesintelli, founded in 2018, is a provider of end-side smart chips focusing on natural human-computer interaction. In the era of AIoT of the Intelligent Connection of Everything, Shiqing Technology is committed to providing chip products and complete system-level solutions for multi-modal intelligent human-computer interaction and data processing such as voice, vision, imaging and display through architecture innovation and customized chip design through architecture innovation and customized chip design. Relying on the years of experience accumulated by the team of Shiqing Technology in the research and development of various forms of processors and their supporting tool chains, through architecture-level optimization and customized design, it has developed chips based on the self-developed RISC-V architecture processor core (CPU) and the end-side intelligent processing engine (TIMESFORMER™), and provided application development boards and software development kits (SDK, RTOS, Linux), supporting end-side intelligent computing for multimodal interactions such as speech, video, vision, and somatosensory. It can provide end-side devices in smart home, smart city and other AIoT application scenarios with significant competitive advantages in terms of energy efficiency ratio, cost, application applicability, etc.

About ACROVIEW Technologies: ACROVIEW is the world's leading provider of semiconductor chip flashing solutions, the company insists on changing the world with technology, driving the future with intelligence, and continuously creating value for customers. Onco's AP8000 universal burner platform and the latest IPS5000 programming automation solution provide one-stop solutions for customers in the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing fields, and the company has served leading customers around the world, including Huawei, BYD, Foxconn and so on.