Processor IP Series for Data Center and Automotive Application
VeriSilicon’s Vivante VIP9400 processor family offers programmable, scalable and extendable solutions for markets that demand real time and powerful AI devices. VIP9400 Series’ patented Neural Network engine and Tensor Processing Fabric deliver superb neural network inference performance with industry-leading power efficiency (TOPS/W) and area efficiency (mm2/W). The VIP9400’s scalable architecture can provide 80TOPS computing ability, enables AI for data center and automotive application.
In addition to neural network acceleration, VIP9400 Series are equipped with Parallel Processing Units (PPUs), which provide full programmability along with conformance to OpenCL 1.2 and OpenVX 1.2.
Programmable Engines (PPU) & NN Engine
128-bit vector processing unit (shader + ext)
OpenCL 1.2 shader instruction set
Enhanced vision instruction set (EVIS)
INT 8/16/32b, Float 16/32b in PPU
Convolution layers
INT8 with INT16, Float16, or BFloat16 variant in NN
Tensor Processing Fabric
Non-convolution layers
Multi-lane processing for data shuffling, normalization, pooling/unpooling, LUT, etc.
Network pruning support, zero skipping, compression
On-chip SRAM for DDR BW saving
Accepts INT 8/16b, BFloat16, Float16
Unified Programming Model
OpenCL, OpenVX
Parallel processing between PPU and NN HW accelerators with priority setting
Supports popular vision and deep learning frameworks: OpenCV, Caffe, Caffe2, TensorFlow, TensorFlowLite, ONNX, PyTorch, MXnet, Cognitive Toolkit, PaddlePaddle, Keras
SW & Tools
ACUITY: End-to-end Neural Network development tool
Eclipse-based IDE for coding/debugging/Profiling
Linux and Android NN API runtime support
Task specific engines speed up for commonly used AI apps
Scalability
Number of PPU and NN cores can be configured independently
Same OpenVX/OpenCL code runs on all processor variants; scalable performance
Extendibility
FLEXA API: Easy integration with other VSI IPs
Reconfigurable EVIS for user to define own instructions
VIP-ConnectTM: HW and SW I/F protocol to plug in customer HW accelerators and expose functionality via CL/VX custom kernels
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