The Synaptics SL-Series addresses the power and performance needs of Edge AI design by enabling designers to quickly integrate AI directly into their products without relying on data centres, ensuring data privacy and rapid response times. The processors offer industry-leading compute capabilities while maintaining low power consumption, making them suitable for a wide range of consumer, enterprise, and industrial edge IoT applications.
Winning ‘Best in Show Award’ from Embedded Computing Design in the category of Microcontrollers, Microprocessors & IP at Embedded World 2024, the SL-Series features scalable hardware, unified software, an adaptive open-source AI framework, a partner-based ecosystem, and robust wireless connectivity.
Synaptics stand at Embedded World 2024. Image Credit: Synaptics.
The SL-Series is supported by the Astra Machina Foundation Series development kit, which helps both AI beginners and experts unlock the processors' superior AI capabilities, powerful processing, and graphics performance, providing the structure, scalability, and flexibility to meet the growing demand for AI in various products.
The kit includes Synaptics' SYN43711 and SYN43752 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo SoCs.
“We are delighted and honored to be winners in such a hotly contested category in a time of rapid innovation,” said Vikram Gupta, SVP & GM IoT Processors and Chief Product Officer at Synaptics. “The win supports our confidence that the SL-Series — and soon our SR-Series — will bring the right compute to solve for power and performance in Edge AI design. Combined with our easy-to-use AI frameworks, customers can quickly bring intelligent IoT products to the market for an extensive range of applications.”
Technical Highlights
The SL-Series multi-core Linux or Android systems on chip (SoCs) are based on Arm Cortex-A-series CPUs and include hardware accelerators for edge inferencing and multimedia processing across audio, video, vision, image, voice, and speech.
- Synaptics® Astra™ Machina™ SL1680 (020-0007) : Features a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 64-bit CPU, a 7.9 TOPS NPU, a high-efficiency GPU, and a multimedia accelerator pipeline. Ideal for home and industrial control, smart appliances, home security gateways, digital signage, displays, point-of-sale systems, and scanners.
- Synaptics® Astra™ Machina™ SL1640 (020-0006) : Optimised for cost and power, it includes a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 processor, a 1.6+ TOPS NPU, and a GE9920 GPU. Suitable for smart home appliances, enterprise conferencing, smart speakers, displays and signage, consumer, and industrial control panels.
- Synaptics® Astra™ Machina™ SL1620 (020-0004) : Also based on a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU, it features a GPU for advanced graphics and AI acceleration, superior audio algorithms, and dual displays. Applications include enterprise multimedia conferencing, smart appliances, home security gateways, digital signage, displays, point-of-sale systems, and smart speakers.
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