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NXP taps Nvidia Tao toolkit for edge AI

NXP taps Nvidia Tao toolkit for edge AI

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By Nick Flaherty

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NXP is the first semiconductor vendor to integrate Nvidia’s TAO Toolkit APIs directly with its eIQ  edge AI development environment

The move, announced at Nvidia’s GTC conference in California today,  allows Nvidia’s trained AI models to be deployed on NXP’s edge processing devices such as the i.MX 93 microcontrollers.

The NXP eIQ machine learning software development environment enables the use of AI algorithms on NXP’s broad portfolio of microcontrollers and microprocessors. It is fully integrated into NXP’s MCUXpresso SDK and Yocto Project Linux development environments, allowing developers to develop complete system-level applications with ease.

Simplifying the training and deployment of AI models is one of the biggest challenges facing today’s AI developers. Integrating the low code Tao APIs directly within NXP’s eIQ machine learning development environment makes it easier to leverage trained AI models and fine tune them for specific uses with transfer learning, while NXP’s eIQ development environment eases the deployment of these models to the edge through a combination of software, inference engines, neural network compilers and optimized libraries.

Tao provides an API-driven workflow that leverages a collection of pre-trained models and transfer learning to enable users to build custom AI models with several optimizations, such as model pruning, that increase the inference throughput for edge AI applications.

As a result of this integration, customers benefit from accelerated AI development, access to a library of pre-tested AI models, and the ability to deploy them on NXP’s wide portfolio of edge processors.

“AI innovation will define the future of the smart connected world,” said Charles Dachs, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Industrial and IoT Edge, NXP. “Combining Nvidia’s expertise in training and testing AI models with NXP’s long history of industrial and IoT edge innovation creates a synergy that allows our customers to bring their AI models to market quickly and easily.”

“Nvidia TAO greatly simplifies the creation and deployment of AI models, including state-of-the-art generative AI models,” said Deepu Talla, Vice President of Robotics and Edge Computing at NVIDIA. “This collaboration brings highly accurate, optimized AI models tuned with NVIDIA TAO and plugged seamlessly into NXP’s eIQ development environment to accelerate edge AI deployments.”

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