MYIR Goes After the Artificial Intelligence of Things with Its New MYC-LR3576 System-on-Module
With a 6 TOPS neural coprocessor, up to 8GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, and a wealth of peripherals, this eight-core SOM is a beast.
Shenzhen-based MYIR (Make Your Idea Real) has announced a new system-on-module targeting the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and edge AI markets — featuring an eight-core Rockchip RK3576 system-on-chip with a neural coprocessor delivering a claimed six tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute for on-device machine learning workloads.
"MYIR has launched a new embedded System-On-Module (SoM), the MYC-LR3576, based on the Rockchip RK3576 processor," the company says of its latest hardware release. "This high-performance processor is designed for AIoT applications and features a quad-core Cortex-A72 and a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU. It integrates a 6 TOPS NPU and a 3D GPU, and supports 4K video encoding and decoding."
The Rockchip RK3576 at the heart of the module runs its four high-performance Arm Cortx-A72 cores at up to 2.2GHz and its high-efficiency Cortex-A53 cores at 1.8GHz, while there's also an on-chip Arm Cortex-M0 microcontroller running at up to 400MHz accessible to the user. Alongside these is an Arm Mali-G52 MC3 3D graphics processor, video hardware good for 8k30 or 4k120 decoding in H.265/HEVC, VP9, AVS2, and AV1 formats and 4k60 encoding in H.264/H.265 formats, and a neural coprocessor delivering up to 6 TOPS of compute — though this is at the lowest INT4 precision, with INT8, INT16, FP16, BF16, and TF32 also supported.
To this, MYIR has added a choice of 4GB of LPPDR4X memory and 32GB of eMMC storage of 8GB of LPDDR4X and 64GB eMMC, depending on model, while the 381-pin LGA package brings out peripherals including dual gigabit Ethernet ports, PCI Express 2.1, USB 3.2, SATA 3, two CAN FD, Flexbus, 12 UARTs running at up to 8Mb/s, up to 10 I2C, two I3C, and five SPI buses, MIPI Camera Serial Interface (CSI) 2.0 four-lane and 1.2 two-four, four-two, or four-plus-two-two lane ports, multiple display options up to 4k120, and general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins including 16 pulse-width modulation (PWM) channels.
To make it easy to experiment with the module's various features, MYIR has also announced the MYD-LR3576 Development Board — a carrier board that delivers both 40-pin Raspberry Pi-pinout and MYIR-pinout GPIO headers, user-accessible keys and LEDs, on-board Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, analog audio, mini-DisplayPort and HDMI video outputs, two USB 3.0 ports, and two gigabit Ethernet ports, with three MIPI CSI and one MIPI DSI connector on the rear alongside microSD storage and an M.2 slot for optional Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) high-speed storage.
The MYC-LR3576 is now available to order on the MYIR site, priced at $75 for the 4GB/32GB and $99 for the 8GB/64GB variants; the development board is priced at $149 and $179 with the 4GB/32GB and 8GB/64GB module variants installed respectively.