Neural Decision Processors™

NDP200 Always-On Vision, Sensor & Speech Recognition

The Syntiant® NDP200™ is a special-purpose processor for deep learning and is ideal for always-on applications in battery-powered devices. The NDP200 applies neural processing to run multiple applications simultaneously with minimal battery power consumption. Built

using the Syntiant Core 2™ programmable deep learning architecture, NDP200 is designed natively run deep neural networks (DNN) on a variety of architectures, such as CNN, RNN, and fully connected networks, and it performs vision processing with highly accurate inference at under 1mW.

NDP200 brings a level of ML performance that delivers 25x the tensor throughput than the Syntiant Core 1™ found in the Syntiant NDP100™ that are currently shipping in high volume. A programmable Tensilica Hifi3 DSP Is also added for feature extraction and signal processing.

Syntiant Core 2

Concurrent neural networks to run multiple applications simultaneously with minimal power consumption

Heterogenous Compute

DNN + DSP support both machine learning and traditional image and voice processing algorithms

Ease of Use

Flexible methods to access neural processing engine where neural designers have full control of network configurations

Always-On Vision

Person detection and object classification at ultra-low power

Multi-sensor Fusion

PDM, SPI, I2S and I2C interfaces for microphone and sensor applications

Key Features

Syntiant Core 2™ Deep Neural Network

Neural network supported concurrently: fully-connected, 1D & 2D convolution, Depth wise convolution, Recurrent neural network including LSTM and GRU, average and max pooling

Up to 896k neural parameters in 8bit mode, 1.6M parameters in 4bit mode, and 7M+ In 1bit mode

11-wire direct image interface

Dual PDM digital microphone interface

I²S serial interface with PCM

SPI and I²C controller and target for multi-modal sensor fusion

26 GPIO pins

Embedded programmable Tensilica HiFi 3 DSP

Up to 100MHz internal operating frequency

Embedded Arm Cortex-M0 for device management with dual timers and UART functionality

Low power PLL for flexible clock input

Onboard firmware security and authentication

Software Development Kit (SDK) integrates in any software environment

Training Development Kit (TDK) to enable the user of standard frameworks such as TensorFlow for customer-programmed applications

40-pin QFN package (0.4mm ball pitch)