Image by stockgiu on FreepikBrainChip Holdings has announced that Frontgrade Gaisler has licensed its Akida IP for incorporation into space-grade, fault-tolerant system-on-chip solutions for hardware AI acceleration. This commercial license agreement paves the path forward for AI chips to be deployed in space. The Akida neuromorphic computing solution was selected based upon providing real time data stream processing with resiliency, autonomy and accuracy at the lowest power, mass and volume.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has been leading the efforts to deploy neuromorphic computing to the furthest edge of AI. “While many fields no doubt can benefit from neuromorphic computing, one essential area is computer vision applications where current FPGA or GPU technology does not bring satisfactory results for edge deployments when considering mass, volume and power constraints,” said Laurent Hili, the microelectronics and data handling engineer at the ESA. “This programme has demonstrated the superiority of neuromorphic technology through several on-going activities with satellite primes and IP/components suppliers such as Frontgrade Gaisler and BrainChip.”
BrainChip’s neuromorphic AI will boost space-borne, on-board computers with superior power efficiency and inference performance while maintaining compatibility with existing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
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