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ROCKVILLE, Md., January 07, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of silicon and software IP that enables Smart Edge devices to connect, sense and infer data more reliably and efficiently, and Edge Impulse, the leading platform for building, deploying, and scaling edge machine learning models, announced today the achievement of breakthrough computer vision capabilities for embedded ML applications with NVIDIA Tao.
This includes full integration of Edge Impulse Studio and support for NVIDIA TAO toolkit with Ceva-NeuPro Studio for both the NPN32 and NPN64 NPUs.
Edge Impulse’s platform optimizes AI performance for the NeuPro-Nano NPUs with little to no code. Cutting-edge AI/ML models, including popular digital signal processing (DSP) blocks and a direct integration with NVIDIA’s Tao toolkit, come standard on Edge Impulse’s platform for faster development cycles and deployment on NeuPro-Nano. Since the NeuPro-Nano’s self-sufficient architecture uniquely supports AI inference, feature extraction and the DSP workloads commonly used in audio, voice and vision applications, the integration with Edge Impulse Platform ensures developers get accurate cycle count emulation for the full end-to-end AI application.
"Our continued collaboration with Edge Impulse will further accelerate development of embedded AI applications for NeuPro-Nano leveraging Edge Impulse Studio’s low/no-code environment to deploy end-to-end AI applications. Furthermore, our enablement of the NVIDIA TAO toolkit on NeuPro-Nano marks a major milestone, allowing AI developers to access, retrain and deploy TAO models through the Edge Impulse Platform on NeuPro-Nano NPU’s," said Chad Lucien, Vice President and general manager of the sensor and audio business unit at Ceva. "This collaboration emphasizes our commitment to simplify AI adoption at the edge, offering ease of use to our customers and partners."
"We are making great strides in translating AI/ML models for effective deployment on edge devices, ensuring that powerful NPUs like the Ceva-NeuPro™-Nano can leverage the full scope of their capabilities," said Zach Shelby, co-founder and CEO at Edge Impulse. "Bringing NVIDIA Tao's computer vision models to the Ceva portfolio will unlock numerous novel use cases for AIoT products that require visual data generation and analysis across industries."
Availability
Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs are available for licensing today. For more information, visit: https://www.ceva-ip.com/product/ceva-neupro-nano/ To learn more about the Edge Impulse development and deployment platform for AI at the edge, please visit edgeimpulse.com.