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DesignWare EV6x Vision Processors
Scalar, Vector DSP & CNN Processing Units for Highly Accurate & Fast Vision Processing
The DesignWare® EV61, EV62 and EV64 Embedded Vision Processors deliver up to 4.5 TeraMACs/sec when implemented in 16-nm processes under typical conditions and support multiple camera input with resolutions up to 4K. The processors are fully programmable and configurable and combine the flexibility of software solutions with the high performance and low power consumption of dedicated hardware.
The EV6x family integrates a high-performance 32-bit scalar core with a 512-bit vector DSP, and an optimized convolutional neural network (CNN) engine for fast, accurate object detection, classification and scene segmentation. The EV6x supports any CNN, including popular networks such as AlexNet, VGG16, GoogLeNet, Yolo, Faster R-CNN, SqueezeNet, and ResNet. Designers can run CNN graphs originally trained for 32-bit floating point hardware on the EV6x’s 12-bit CNN engine, significantly reducing the power and area of their designs while maintaining the same levels of detection accuracy. The engine delivers power efficiency of up to 2,000 GMACs/sec/W when implemented in 16-nm FinFET process technologies (worst-case operating conditions). The EV6x’s optional CNN engine also supports neural networks trained for 8-bit precision to support lower memory bandwidth and power use.
The EV61 features a single vision CPU (32-bit scalar RISC with a 512-bit vector DSP), the EV62 features a dual-core vision CPU and the EV64 has a quad-core vision CPU. All of the cores can be configured with the optional CNN engine that can be configured with 880, 1,760 or 3,520 MACs.
The optional Safety Enhancement Package enables automotive SoC designers to integrate ASIL D Ready processor IP to accelerate ADAS and autonomous vehicle application development and ISO 26262 functional safety certification.
To speed application software development, the EV6x processor family is supported by a comprehensive software programming environment based on embedded vision and neural network standards including OpenCV, OpenCL™ C, OpenVX™ with the DesignWare ARC MetaWare EV Development Toolkit. The toolkit includes a CNN mapping tool that analyzes neural networks trained using popular frameworks like Caffe and Tensorflow, and automatically generates the executable for the programmable CNN engine. For maximum flexibility and future-proofing, the tool can also distribute computations between the vision CPU and CNN resources to support new and emerging neural network algorithms as well as customer-specific CNN layers.
DesignWare EV61, EV62 and EV64 Processors Datasheet DesignWare EV6x with Safety Enhancement Package Datasheet
- Optimized for high frame-rate and video resolution embedded vision applications
- Fast, accurate object detection with a programmable CNN engine
- CNN engine:
- Offers power efficiency of up to 2000 GMACs/sec/W in worst-case operating conditions when implemented in 16-nm FinFET processes
- Supports both coefficient and feature map compression/decompression to reduce data bandwidth requirements and decrease power consumption
- High-performance vision CPU with 512-bit wide SIMD vision DSP and 32-bit scalar CPU
- Vision CPU scales from 1 to 4 vector DSPs and operates in parallel to the CNN engine
- Supports data- and task-level parallelism
- Runs full range of vision algorithms for HD resolutions up to 4Kp
- Works with all host processors for vision offload
- High productivity MetaWare EV Development Toolkit supports C/C++, OpenCL C, OpenCV and OpenVX
- CNN mapping tool automatically dispatches processing tasks to available hardware resources for faster execution
| EV61 processor for embedded vision applications with a single-core HS VDSP vision CPU | STARs | Subscribe |
| EV62 processor for embedded vision applications with dual-core HS VDSP Vision CPU | STARs | Subscribe |
| EV64 processor for embedded vision applications with quad-core HS VDSP Vision CPU | STARs | Subscribe |
| ASIL B Safety Enhancement Package for EV6x Vision Processors | STARs | Subscribe |
| ASIL D Safety Enhancement Package for EV6x Vision Processors | STARs | Subscribe |
| High performance vector floating point unit option for EV6x Embedded Vision Processor family | STARs | Subscribe |
| CNN 1760 MAC Option | STARs | Subscribe |
| CNN 3520 MAC Option | STARs | Subscribe |
| CNN 880 MAC Option | STARs | Subscribe |
| Description: | ASIL B Safety Enhancement Package for EV6x Vision Processors |
| Name: | dwc_ev6x_sep_asil_b_option |
| STARs: | Open and/or Closed STARs |
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| Description: | ASIL D Safety Enhancement Package for EV6x Vision Processors |
| Name: | dwc_ev6x_sep_asil_d_option |
| Version: | 2.20a-lca02 |
| STARs: | Open and/or Closed STARs |
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| Download: | ev_sep_processor |
| Product Code: | D107-0 |
| Description: | CNN 1760 MAC Option |
| Name: | dwc_ev_cnn_1760_mac_option |
| Version: | 2.1b |
| STARs: | Open and/or Closed STARs |
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| Product Type: | DesignWare Cores |
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| Download: | ev-vision_processor |
| Product Code: | C623-0 |
| Description: | CNN 3520 MAC Option |
| Name: | dwc_ev_cnn_3520_mac_option |
| Version: | 2.1b |
| STARs: | Open and/or Closed STARs |
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| Product Code: | C624-0 |
| Description: | CNN 880 MAC Option |
| Name: | dwc_ev_cnn_880_mac_option |
| STARs: | Open and/or Closed STARs |
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| Product Type: | DesignWare Cores |
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| Product Code: | C173-0 |
| Description: | EV61 processor for embedded vision applications with a single-core HS VDSP vision CPU |
| Name: | dwc_ev61_processor |
| Version: | 2.10b |
| STARs: | Open and/or Closed STARs |
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| Product Type: | DesignWare Cores |
| Documentation: |
Hide Documents... Application Note ARC Processors Not Susceptible to Meltdown and Spectre VulnerabilitiesDatabooks EV CNN Engine Hardware Databook Embedded Vision Processor Databook Embedded Vision Processor HAPS Reference Design Flow DatabookDatasheets DesignWare EV61, EV62 and EV64 Processors Datasheet DesignWare EV6x with Safety Enhancement Package DatasheetReference Manual EV Processor Programmer's Reference ManualUser Manuals ASIC Reference Design Flow Users Guide EV Implementation and Integration Guide |
| Download: | ev-vision_processor |
| Product Code: | B869-0 |
| Description: | EV62 processor for embedded vision applications with dual-core HS VDSP Vision CPU |
| Name: | dwc_ev62_processor |
| Version: | 2.10b |
| STARs: | Open and/or Closed STARs |
| myDesignWare: | Subscribe for Notifications |
| Product Type: | DesignWare Cores |
| Documentation: |
Hide Documents... Application Note ARC Processors Not Susceptible to Meltdown and Spectre VulnerabilitiesDatabooks EV CNN Engine Hardware Databook Embedded Vision Processor Databook Embedded Vision Processor HAPS Reference Design Flow DatabookDatasheets DesignWare EV61, EV62 and EV64 Processors Datasheet DesignWare EV6x with Safety Enhancement Package DatasheetReference Manual EV Processor Programmer's Reference ManualUser Manuals ASIC Reference Design Flow Users Guide EV Implementation and Integration Guide |
| Download: | ev-vision_processor |
| Product Code: | B870-0 |
| Description: | EV64 processor for embedded vision applications with quad-core HS VDSP Vision CPU |
| Name: | dwc_ev64_processor |
| Version: | 2.10b |
| STARs: | Open and/or Closed STARs |
| myDesignWare: | Subscribe for Notifications |
| Product Type: | DesignWare Cores |
| Documentation: |
Hide Documents... Application Note ARC Processors Not Susceptible to Meltdown and Spectre VulnerabilitiesDatabooks EV CNN Engine Hardware Databook Embedded Vision Processor Databook Embedded Vision Processor HAPS Reference Design Flow DatabookDatasheets DesignWare EV61, EV62 and EV64 Processors Datasheet DesignWare EV6x with Safety Enhancement Package DatasheetReference Manual EV Processor Programmer's Reference ManualUser Manuals ASIC Reference Design Flow Users Guide EV Implementation and Integration Guide |
| Download: | ev-vision_processor |
| Product Code: | B871-0 |
| Description: | High performance vector floating point unit option for EV6x Embedded Vision Processor family |
| Name: | dwc_ev6x_vector_fpu_option |
| STARs: | Open and/or Closed STARs |
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| Product Type: | DesignWare Cores |
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