Small form factor USB module offers access to SiFive X280.
SiFive, Inc announced that the company has partnered with Kinara to create a USB-based enablement board that provides access to the SiFive Intelligence X280 processor and sample code to allow customers to test out the X280 IP and begin development of RISC-V vector software. The Xara device will be available to select customers in late Q2 of this year.
At the core of the HiFive Xara X280 enablement board is Kinara’s Ara-2, which incorporates two SiFive X280 64-bit RISC-V cores. These cores handle pre- and post-processing tasks, tensor filtering, floating-point functions, and more. Additionally, these SiFive X280 cores connect to high-performance, high-efficiency Kinara NPU cores that are optimized for AI inference at the edge with up to 40 TOPS of performance and include support for generative AI workloads like transformer-based models (e.g., LLaVA, LLaMA, and other Large Language Models (LLMs)).
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