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    AI-Native IoT processors powered by open software and best-in-class wireless connectivity for a secure, multi-modal device edge.

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    Introducing SR-Series High-Performance AI MCUs

    Designed to deliver high-performance, AI-Native, multimodal compute to consumer, enterprise, and industrial IoT workloads

    Enabling Smarter Environments

    Purpose-Built Silicon

    High-performance and low-power Arm-based AI MPUs and MCUs architected with the IoT in mind.

    Edge AI for All

    Open-source AI tools and standards-based approaches support users while empowering developers.

    A History of Innovation

    Solutions with on-device AI for vision, audio, voice, and touch modalities, paired with wireless technology optimized for the IoT.

    Harness Innovative Capabilities to Streamline Development

    Embedded Processors for an
    AI-Native IoT

    SL1680

    The SL1680 incorporates high-performance compute engines, including a quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A73 64-bit CPU subsystem, a multi-TOPS NPU, a high-efficiency, feature-rich GPU for advanced graphics and AI acceleration, and multimedia accelerators for image signal processing (ISP), 4K video encode/decode, and audio.

    SL1640

    The SL1640 is a cost and power optimized secure embedded SoC with high-performance compute engines including a quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A55, 1.6+ TOPS NPU, Imagination GE9920 GPU with 90 GFLOPS 16-bit operations, Ultra HD video encode and decode pipelines, and audio DSP.

    SL1620

    The SL1620 is designed and optimized for embedded applications that require powerful processing, advanced AI capability, and 3D graphics. This chip comes with Linux® OS, superior audio algorithms, a variety of peripherals, dual displays, companion Synaptics SoC for connectivity and audio front end.

    Software

    Astra SL Software SDK is Synaptics' unified software release for embedded development on Astra Machina platforms, tailored for consumer, enterprise, and industrial IoT products. The SDK emphasizes AI-native, multi-modal processing with hardware accelerators for edge inferencing, security, graphics, vision, and multimedia.


    Building on popular open-source components and tools, the SDK streamlines development with:
    •    Upstream Kernel and U-Boot for efficient system bring-up.
    •    GStreamer for advanced multimedia, camera, and edge AI functionality.
    •    OP-TEE for a trusted execution environment, and Synaptics’ root of trust for secure boot. 
    •    Yocto build environment for seamless integration of open-source and proprietary packages.

     

    The SDK supports Astra Machina SL Foundation Series Boards and includes comprehensive documentation available on Synaptics' GitHub.
     
     

    SR100 Family

    High-performance AI MCUs with tiered inferencing makes context-aware computing a reality across the smart home, the factory floor, and at work. Featuring Arm® Cortex®-M55 cores with Helium™ Technology, Arm Ethos™-U55 neural network processors (NPU), dual MIPI camera interfaces, image and voice processing, and multi-tier power efficiency. 
     

    Software

    The SR Software Development Kit (SDK) is tailored to harness the exceptional capabilities of the Synaptics Astra SR series of high-performance AI MCUs, with support for context-aware compute and multimodal IO applications


    To facilitate a seamless development journey, the SDK includes the following key components:
    •    Optimized libraries and frameworks specifically tuned for the SR100 series hardware accelerators
    •    Sample applications that demonstrate real-world use cases utilizing vision-based low power AI
    •    Documentation and tutorials to guide developers from initial setup to advanced optimization techniques
    •    Visual Studio Extension or command-line development environments

    The Industry's Premier IoT AI System

    Introducing the industry’s premier IoT system for compute, Edge AI, and connectivity built on open software

    The Industry's Premier IoT AI System

    Machina Micro

    The Synaptics Astra™ Machina Micro dev kit enables rapid prototyping for the Synaptics SR100 Series of highperformance, context-aware, multimodal AI MCUs. The dev kit brings interfaces and IO ranging from qSPI for storage, M.2 for connectivity, digital mics for voice processing, and MIPI-CSI for multiple camera inputs. The SR100 series of MCUs - including SR110, SR105, and SR102 deliver AI-accelerated performance at all power levels in combination with ultra low-power multimodal sensing.

    The Industry's Premier IoT AI System

    Astra Machina Tutorial Videos

    Embark on an exciting journey with Synaptics Astra. In this series of videos our team is going to help you design with Astra, our AI-Native compute platform of intelligent edge processors designed for the IoT. 
     

    Developer Zone

    Synaptics Astra™ equips developers with best-in-class Edge AI hardware and Open-source tools enabling product innovation with a proven path to scale.

    Power Various Applications With Our Open-Source AI Solutions

    Whatever your use case, Astra solutions help you power a smarter, more-efficient world. Our embedded processors are engineered to accelerate innovation across devices in a connected ecosystem.

    Home Control and Automation

    With a scalable compute portfolio coupled with right-sized Wi-Fi and Bluetooth/BLE connectivity solutions designed for the IoT, Synaptics Astra delivers highly integrated solutions at price points that help OEMs drive differentiation.

    Smart Appliances

    As conversational AI unlocks new experiences within homes, at work and on factory floors, next-generation appliances powered by MCUs and MPUs need to be multimodal in nature. With built-in vision, video, audio and display engines and AI-enabled pipelines, Astra SoCs make this world possible.

    Manufacturing and Industrial Systems

    AI-accelerated connected systems, integrated across production lines, drive beneficial business outcomes through higher levels of quality assurance by detecting manufacturing anomalies at scale and minimizing human intervention. The Astra SL Series, coupled with the Machina development kit, enables rapid prototyping with developer-friendly AI tools and pre-optimized edge models from the Synaptics partner ecosystem to build production-ready systems.

    Wearables and AI Vision/Audio Processing

    AI-enhanced on-body monitoring and multimodal processing devices require silicon architectures optimized for ultra-low-power computing, and capable of enriching end-user experiences. As the area of contextual language models with support for transformers develops rapidly, Synaptics’ portfolio of AI MPUs and AI MCUs is designed from the ground up to deliver intelligence across various power levels.

    Smart Retail

    Vision and voice are emerging as essential modalities across retail IoT systems, such as smart shelving/freezers/robots, kiosks and point-of-sale devices. With multi-sensor inputs, industry-tested secure video, imaging and inferencing pipelines, Synaptics Astra delivers differentiated options for intelligent compute in smart retail.

    Medical Devices

    Count on our embedded processing solutions to build next-generation medical devices. Through AI-driven sensing and multimodal on-device data analysis, you enhance connected healthcare technology, from patient monitoring devices to diagnostic equipment.

    With support for secure, real-time processing of biosignals, contextual data and imaging, our portfolio of AI MCUs and MPUs empowers you to offer smart, responsive solutions that enable more-accurate decision-making and accommodate multiple clinical environments and diverse patient needs.

    Automotive

    Touch and display technologies are redefining the in-vehicle user experience with intuitive, immersive interfaces becoming critical to modern automotive design. The high-performance, power-efficient Synaptics Astra solutions enable high-resolution, visually rich displays and highly responsive touchscreens that enhance the driver and passenger experience.

    Leveraging our technology gives your solutions advanced image processing capabilities, while empowering you to save space with a single chip that combines touch and display controls. Accelerate touchscreen development with comprehensive tools that save time and effort while enjoying the comfort of knowing that our technology complies with automotive standards.

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    Define Your AI Journey

    On-Device AI in Minutes

    Get started today with AI models pre-optimized for Synaptics Astra Processors, and discover the possibilities. Optimize PyTorch, ONNX or TensorFlow Lite models for on-device AI accelerators with best-in-class embedded AI tools.

    Designed With Usability in Mind

    Astra Machina is the industry’s premier IoT system for compute, edge AI technology and connectivity built on open software. Modular developer kit for Astra SL-Series of high-performance IoT processors with integrated Wireless Connectivity from Synaptics.

    Trusted by Industry Leaders

    • "Arm technology has powered multiple generations of Synaptics AI-enabled IoT solutions for multimedia, audio, and conferencing markets. We are excited to continue the partnership to address fragmentation across broader IoT market segments and look forward to collaborating on ensuring long-term success for the Synaptics Astra IoT platform."

      Paul Williamson
      SVP & GM, IoT Line of Business, ARM
    • "We have had great success with Synaptics' best-in-class connectivity modules. With Synaptics' Astra Platform we are excited to bring new system on modules (SoMs) combining highly integrated intelligent computing and wireless connectivity to the embedded IoT market."

      Janet Wei
      CEO, AMPAK
    • "LGU+ and Synaptics have a long history of partnership that has brought new and innovative features with every product generation. Together we invested early in AI and have use cases already deployed, including AI-based sound enhancements for a truly unique user experience. We are just starting to scratch the surface of AI's capabilities and are excited to see how Synaptics Astra Platform will further accelerate our lead in AI at the edge."

      DaeWon-Song
      VP, R&D Center, LGU+
    • "embedUR is excited to partner with Synaptics on the Astra platform to enable cutting-edge AI models on its scalable portfolio of IoT processors with integrated NPUs. Working closely with Synaptics Engineering, embedUR integrated YOLO image segmentation models on tiny devices to achieve remarkable performance. We look forward to closer collaboration across many real-world edge applications."

      John Marconi
      VP Technology, embedUR
    • "Feature-flexibility, performance, and power efficiency are critical for multi-modal smart conference systems. Synaptics' proven compute and connectivity solutions, coupled with its AI toolkit, provided the assurance we needed to execute a highly interactive solution. As we enable AI-powered features such as voice-to-text, gesture recognition, translation, and meeting summaries, we are excited to see where the Synaptics Astra Platform can take us."

      Wesley Chen
      AVP, QSI

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