The embedded Vision Accelerators aren't really graphics accelerators. They do some important things for DSP that we could potentially leverage, but I haven't been able to tell in short look if they are actually documented so that you can program them, or just are hardware accelerators for a proprietary thing they call Vision pack. See https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6865062
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 11:10 AM Zach Metzinger zmetzing@pobox.com wrote:
Hello all,
I've recently acquired this board:
Don't let the name fool you: AI is not the only thing this board is good for. In fact, it really doesn't have any specialized AI hardware at all. It's really a signal-processing platform.
It has a dual-core Cortex-A15, two C66x DSPs, 4x PRUs (32-bit microcontroller cores for real-time control), 2x dual-core Cortex-M4s, and several graphics acceleration units.
That's a whole lotta horsepower for $130. Combine this with any of the inexpensive USB-interfaced RF hardware and you've got a lot of possibilities for the determined amateur.
I plan to make this the core of my SatNOGS setup, with all control and processing done on this board, relaying directly to the SatNOGS DB.
--- Zach N0ZGO
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