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Coral NPU

Coral NPU is an open, standards-based RISC-V architecture for edge AI. Its completed 32-bit design includes a Matrix Execution Unit configurable for up to 1 TOPS.

What it does

Developers and silicon teams can use Coral NPU to build and deploy low-power ML workloads across compatible edge devices and SoCs.

Availability
Complete 32-bit RTL is available today on GitHub
Pricing model
Not established
Deployment
Deploy across different SoC vendors, devices, and power envelopes
Privacy
Edge AI use cases require strict privacy and can operate without a constant round-trip to the cloud
Licence
Open hardware and software standard
Capability
analysis
Modality
multimodal
Access
open weightsCLI
Deployment
on-device
Pricing
open-source
Target user
developerenterprise

Evidence

4 claims
  • The complete 32-bit Coral NPU RTL is available today on GitHub. [1]
    To help silicon teams bring this open design straight into commercial production, the complete 32-bit RTL is available today on GitHub.
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  • The Matrix Execution Unit is configurable for up to 1 TOPS. [1]
    The complete 32-bit Coral NPU architecture (Milestones 1–4): Including our new Matrix Execution Unit , configurable for up to 1 TOPS and targeting 10mW average power for inference.
    Google. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights.
  • The architecture targets 10mW average power for inference. [1]
    The complete 32-bit Coral NPU architecture (Milestones 1–4): Including our new Matrix Execution Unit , configurable for up to 1 TOPS and targeting 10mW average power for inference.
    Google. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights.
  • The Matrix Execution Unit uses a dedicated outer-product multiply-accumulate engine. [1]
    Our Matrix Execution Unit leverages the RISC-V VME specification (formally part of the Zvt family) to address this need and uses a dedicated outer-product multiply-accumulate (MAC) engine.
    Google. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights.

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