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EMBEDDED MICRO-CONTROLLER SOLUTIONS

CEMTEK offers a wide variety of engineering services related to embedded systems. Your embedded project is taken from the initial concept phase right through to delivering a working unit ready for production. Whether your project involves discrete digital electronics, micro-controllers, or analog systems, CEMTEK will use the right mix of technology to custom design the most viable solution.

MICROCHIP 

The Embedded Control Solutions Company® 

Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide.

Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, USA, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.

Microchip, PIC18F46K22, 40 Pin, Low-Power, High-Performance Microcontroller.
  

• project specification development
• schematic design
• circuit board layout
• software design and implementation
• technical documentation

Analog and digital design

Operator and specialized interfaces

Industrial bus solutions

CanMV-K230 is a credit card-sized development board for AI and computer vision applications based on the Kendryte K230 dual-core C908 64-bit RISC-V processor with built-in KPU (Knowledge Process Unit) and various interfaces such as MIPI CSI inputs and Ethernet.

• CPU, 64-bit RISC-V processor @ 1.6GHz with RISC-V Vector Extension 1.0, FPU
• 64-bit RISC-V processor @ 800MHz with support for RV64GCB instruction set;
• AI accelerator, KPU with support for INT8 and INT16
• Compatible with TVM, TensorFlow, Pytorch, ONNX
• Typical network performance: Resnet 50 ≥ 85fps @ INT8; Mobilenet_v2 ≥ 670fps @ INT8; YoloV5S ≥ 38fps @INT8;
• “DPU” using 3D structured light depth calculation up to 1280×800 @ 30fps
• VPU – Video encoding/decoding for H.264/H.265/JPEG/MJPEG up to 4Kp40/4Kp20
• System Memory: 512MB LPDDR3
• Storage – QSPI flash, microSD card slot
• Display – HDMI port, MIPI DSI connector up to 1080p60
• Audio – 3.5mm audio jack
• Camera – Up to 5MP camera, up to 3-ch MIPI CSI inputs
• Networking
  • 10/100Mbps Ethernet RJ45 port
  • WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 4.0 via AP6212 wireless module
• USB – 1x USB 2.0 OTG Type-C port port
• Expansion – 40-pin GPIO header with up to 29x GPIOs, 5x PWM, 4x I2C, 2x UART
• Misc – Buttons, RGB LED
• Power Supply – 5V via USB-C port
• Dimension – 85 x 56 mm

The first Kendryte RISC-V AI processor was launched in 2018 with the K210 which I tested with the Grove AI HAT and Maixduino board and found fun to experiment with, but noted that performance was limited. Since then the company introduced the K510 mid-range AI processor with a more powerful 3 TOPS AI accelerator, and the K230 entry-level successor to the K210 – which was planned for 2022 in a 2021 roadmap – has now just been launched and integrated into the CanMV-K230 development board.

CanMV-K230 specifications:  SoC – Kendryte K230