Tenstorrent powers first automotive RISC-V AI accelerator chiplet
BOS Semiconductors in Korea has developed the industry’s first RISC-V AI accelerator chiplet using IP from US startup Tenstorrent.
The Eagle-N chiplet was jointly developed by the two companies with the Tenstorrent Tensix NPU core, which is tailored for automotive applications such as Automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and In-vehicle infotainment (IVI) domain computing system.
The Tensix Core includes an array math unit for tensor operations, a SIMD unit for vector operations, a Network-on-Chip (NoC) to move data from core-to-core and chip-to-chip, five “baby RISC-V” processors to help direct the NoC, and up to 1.5MB of SRAM.
This provides up to 250TOPS NPU performance along with PCIe gen5 and UCIe high-speed interfaces to build an add-on NPU and AI subsystem to develop autonomous driving functions and immersive in-cabin experiences.
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The design is intended to allow any ADAS and IVI processor in the market to be connected with Eagle-N so that OEMs and Tier-1s can simply implement Eagle-N alongside the top of their existing ADAS or IVI domain computing system to upgrade its AI performance.
In addition to Eagle-N, BOS is developing Eagle-A, which is an one-chip ADAS SoC and can be used in conjunction with Eagle-N. Eagle-N and Eagle-A are ADAS chiplet SoC family to support various segments of ADAS and autonomous driving functions.
“It is very exciting to introduce our first automotive SoC product to the market.” said Jaehong Park, CEO and founder of BOS Semiconductors. “Eagle-N is the first series of our Eagle ADAS Chiplet SoC family. Along with Tenstorrent, we will provide the most cost-effective, high-performance and low-power AI SoC in the automotive industry.”
“BOS has a great team and we have been very pleased with the collaboration so far – their vision for developing SoCs based on our technology is strong and comes at such a key moment for the automotive industry,” said David Bennett, CCO of Tenstorrent. “Tenstorrent is really excited to have Eagle-N as a part of our chiplet ecosystem.”
www.bos-semi.com; www.tenstorrent.com
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