Infineon, Edge Impulse Partner to Bring PSoC 63 Bluetooth LE MCU Support to Edge Impulse Studio
With an Arm Cortex-M4F and a Cortex-M0+, this dual-core microcontroller is likely to prove popular for low-power tinyML applications.
Infineon has announced a partnership with Edge Impulse to bring official support for the PSoC 63 Bluetooth LE microcontroller family to Edge Impulse Studio — making it easier to develop on-device edge AI applications based on the low-power hardware.
“By collaborating with Edge Impulse on the PSoC 63 Bluetooth LE MCU, Infineon customers can bring their solutions faster to market for embedded AI/ML [Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning] use cases," claims Infineon's Shantanu Bhalerao of the partnership.
"Infineon is committed to enable our customers to develop their own AI/ML models, or use a model out of a suite of predefined models available from Infineon or our valuable partners. Infineon is excited to add Edge Impulse to our growing partner network, and will continue to work with our extensive group of AI/ML partners that complements our offerings."
"With its advanced processing capabilities and low power consumption, the PSoC 63 Bluetooth LE MCU is an ideal vehicle for the next generation of edge devices, from wearables to industrial monitoring," adds Zach Shelby, chief executive officer and co-founder of Edge Impulse. "Matched with the Edge Impulse platform, embedded developers can more quickly develop and deploy powerful solutions for an exciting range of edge ML applications."
The Infineon PSoC 63 Bluetooth LE microcontroller family is designed to blend performance and power efficiency, offering a heterogeneous Arm Cortex-M4F and Cortex-M0+ design with clock speeds of up to 150MHz on the M4F and 100MHz on the M0+. The parts can operate down to 0.9V, offer up to 288kB of static RAM and 1MB of flash storage, and offer a range of programmable analog and digital peripherals including twelve "Universal Digital Blocks" for the creation of custom digital peripherals. The chips also offer Bluetooth 5.2 Low Energy (BLE) connectivity as standard, with a programmable transmission power up to 4dBm and a -95dBm receive sensitivity.
Their integration into the Edge Impulse Studio platform as an officially-supported target will, both companies hope, make it a go-to part for tinyML projects which need to offer a long operating lifespan on battery or harvested power. Support will also be included for Infineon's development kits built around the microcontrollers, including the CY8CKIT-062-BLE Pioneer Kit with inertial measurement unit, microphone, and temperature sensor, and for add-on boards including the CY8CKIT-028-EPD E-Ink Display Shield Board.
More information on the partnership between the two companies is to be discussed in a joint webinar on July 12th at 9am PT, the pair have confirmed. Additional details on the PSoC 63 Bluetooth LE microcontroller family can be found on Infineon's website, with information on Edge Impulse Studio available on the company's official website.
