Digi-Key at embedded world 2023 with Texas Instruments

Berner was keen to show off Texas Instruments’ new line of vision processing devices, its capabilities, as well as the wide range of devices on offer to its customers.

Vision processor family

The new AM6XA vision processor family allow designers to add more vision and AI processing whilst also maintaining lower costs and better energy efficiency in applications such as video doorbells, machine vision, and autonomous mobile robots.

This new family of products includes the AM62A, AM68A, and AM69A processors which are supported by open-source evaluation and model development tools, and common software that is programmable through industry-standard application programming interfaces (APIs), frameworks and models.

This family of products includes products that range from “one to 32 teraoperations per second (TOPS)” which allows for “scalable performance,” says Berner.

The products:

• AM62A3, AM62A3-Q1, AM62A7 and AM62A7-Q1, which support one to two cameras at less than 2W in applications such as doorbell cameras and smart retail systems. This family includes the AM62A3, the industry’s lowest-cost 1-TOPS vision processor (US$12 in 1,000-unit quantities).
• AM68A, which enables one to eight cameras in applications like machine vision, with up to 8 TOPS of AI processing for advanced video analytics.
• AM69A, which achieves 32 TOPS of AI processing for one to 12 cameras in high-performance applications such as edge AI boxes, autonomous mobile robots, and traffic monitoring systems.

This platform of vision processors, software and tools helps designers easily develop and scale edge AI designs across multiple systems while accelerating time to market. To finish, Berner explains how Texas Instruments customers can start using their products to develop performance optimised embedded applications.