Amol Borkar, Director of Product Marketing for Cadence Tensilica DSPs, presents the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies at the 2025 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates the use of the Tensilica Vision 230 (Q7) DSP for advanced AI and transformer applications.
The Vision 230 DSP is a highly efficient, configurable, and extensible processor designed for edge computing in vision, imaging, and AI. This demonstration takes place on the Axera AX650N platform, which includes two instances of the Vision 230 (Q7) DSPs alongside Axera’s proprietary NPU. While the NPU handles the majority of the AI workload, unsupported layers and operators are processed by the Vision 230 DSP, functioning as an AI co-processor. This setup exemplifies the capabilities of Cadence’s latest product, the Tensilica NeuroEdge 130 AI co-processor.
The demonstration showcases the Axera platform running the SWIN transformer network for image classification. The SWIN transformer is a preferred choice for “backbone” networks due to its combination of transformers and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), offering robust performance and efficiency in tasks such as image classification, object detection, and segmentation.
To learn more about these products, please visit the links below:
- Tensilica NeuroEdge 130 AI Co-Processor: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/silicon-solutions/ai-ip-platform/tensilica-neuroedge-ai-co-processor.html
- Tensilica Vision 230 DSP: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/silicon-solutions/compute-ip/vision-dsps/vision-230.html
- Axera AX650N: https://en.axera-tech.com/
