MYIR Vision Edge Computing Platform Offers 4K30 Computer Vision on a Xilinx Zynq MPSoC FPGA
Bundled with a Sony IMX334 camera module, the VECP Starter Kit aims to be all you need for FPGA-accelerated computer vision at the edge.
Shenzhen-based MYIR (Make Your Idea Real) is back with another edge computing design, offering 4K machine vision capabilities courtesy of a Xilinx Zynq FPGA: the Vision Edge Computing Platform, or VECP.
MYIR launched a low-cost STM32MP1-based system-on-module, the MYC-YA157C, earlier this year, offering two Arm Cortex-A7 cores at 650MHz and one Cortex-M4 core at 209MHz for $29. Its latest design, the VECP, is by contrast considerably more powerful — and it's reflected in its price.
First spotted by CNX Software, the VECP has at its heart a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZCZU3EG field-programmable gate array (FPGA) multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC), which offers both the FPGA core plus a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 general-purpose processor running at 1.2GHz, a dual-core Cortex-R5 processor running at 600MHz, and an Arm Mali-400MP2 graphics processor. The FPGA portion, meanwhile, offers 154k logic cells, 728 digital signal processing (DSP) slices, and 7.6Mb of memory, while the system as a whole gets 4GB of DDR4-2400 RAM.
The reason for all that power: The VECP is, as its name implies, designed for computer vision applications — and at resolutions up to 3840x210. With a MIPI CSI-2 interface to a Sony IMX334LLR image sensor, the VECP Starter Kit - which includes the MPSoC in a board featuring two gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB 3.0 ports, and an HDMI video output linked to the FPGA — is designed to get computer vision projects up and running as quickly as possible.
The kit, which includes the board and camera alongside a 12V power supply, 16GB microSD, and a board support package based on Linux 4.14.0, is available to order now priced at $599 on the MYIR website.