Lattice Semi Partners with NVIDIA for FPGA-Powered Sensor-Bridging Edge AI on Jetson Orin, IGX Orin
Lattice FPGAs will power a new open source reference design for low-latency sensor bridging to NVIDIA's Jetson Orin and IGX Orin platforms.
Lattice Semiconductor has announced a partnership with NVIDIA to push artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge further forward by combining the former's field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology with the latter's Jetson Orin and IGX Orin platforms — and the pair are launching an open source development board to prove their chops.
"With AI technology at the forefront of transforming various markets, including manufacturing, transportation, communications, and medical instruments, this collaboration will accelerate this fundamental shift," claims Lattice's Esam Elashmawi of the partnership. "We are excited to work with NVIDIA to extend the reach of our reference solutions, bringing more innovation to our customers and ecosystem to help simplify and speed the implementation of edge AI applications."
The idea behind the partnership is to combine Lattice's power-efficient FPGA devices with NVIDIA's high-performance GPU-based Jetson Orin and IGX Orin machine learning platforms — delivering a low-latency way to connect a wide variety of sensors for everything from robotics to computer vision applications. The result: an open source development board which, the companies say, will serve as a reference design for those looking to build on Orin and Lattice FPGAs in their own projects.
"As companies increasingly demand real-time insights and autonomous decision-making powered by AI, more developers are connecting their various sensors to NVIDIA edge computing platforms," adds NVIDIA's Amit Goel of the deal. "This collaboration with Lattice will accelerate innovations in sensor processing and help simplify the deployment of edge-to-cloud AI applications."
The partnership announcement comes as Lattice announced new products at the Lattice Developers Conference 2023, including the mid-range Avant-G and Avant-X FPGA devices and expansions to its software stack with Automate, mVision, senseAI, and Sentry.
Technical details of the board have not yet been released, but Lattice has confirmed it is shipping to "early-access customers" now with general availability of the board, its design files, and application examples scheduled for the first half of 2024.
