NXP enables OrCam’s wearable personal assistant

The device aims to improve human wellness, by acting as a 'personal assistant' to its users with potential development of applications such as real-time profiling of people, tracking eating and fitness activities, monitoring facial expressions and summarising daily habits.

The exceptional performance, together with the power efficiency features of the i.MX 7 series processor, provides the potential for innovative, security and long battery life in wearable computing and IoT end product applications. The i.MX 7Dual processor was chosen by OrCam based on these features to power their new revolutionary wearable personal assistant device, MyMe. See the video introduction of the OrCam MyMe below.

Professor Shashua, Co-founder, OrCam, commented: “The i.MX 7Dual processor implements a heterogeneous multicore architecture with the ARM Cortex-A7 core used for deep learning processing and the Cortex-M4 core for audio processing, helping us achieve the small form factor and most power-efficient wearable device. Developing with i.MX 7Dual was an easy decision based on our previous experience with the i.MX processor portfolio.”

“NXP is proud to collaborate with OrCam to introduce innovative and revolutionary products to the market. OrCam-MyMe creates a new segment of wearables with significant potential for new applications that will drive better experiences for consumers,” added Shmuel Barkan, Joint General Manager and Director of Sales and Marketing, NXP Israel.

The NXP i.MX 7 series is the latest generation of power efficient and full-featured applications processors from the successful and broadly deployed i.MX platform. Based on the Cortex-A7 and Cortex-M4 cores, i.MX 7 series operates up to 1GHz for Cortex-A7 and up to 200MHz for Cortex-M4. The Cortex-A7 and Cortex-M4 achieve processor core efficiency levels of 100μW/MHz and 70μW/MHz respectively. Moreover, the low-power state retention mode significantly contributes to the power efficiency.