Status: Architecture Design

Native Ternary
Silicon.

EdgeCore-T1 is an NPU IP designed to accelerate 1.58-bit Fikra models directly in hardware. Eliminating the Von Neumann bottleneck at the edge.

FIG 1.0: CORE BLOCK DIAGRAM
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SRAM_BUFFER (TERNARY PACKED)

Technical Specifications

REVISION 0.4 (PRE-SILICON)

Performance Targets

Peak Throughput 256 GOPS @ 500MHz
INT8 Equivalent ~85 GOPS
Power (FPGA) 0.5-1W @ 500MHz
Power (ASIC Est.) 50-100mW
Latency (ResNet-50) <10ms

FPGA Utilization

LUTs 40K - 60K
DSP Blocks 128 - 256
Block RAM 2 - 4 MB
Interface AXI4 Standard
Target Devices Kria KV260, Zynq MPSoC

Target Applications

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Autonomous Robotics

Vision processing for drones and warehouse robots. Ternary weights allow for high-speed object avoidance with minimal battery drain.

  • > Low Latency
  • > Battery Optimized
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Remote IoT Sensing

Agricultural monitoring and environmental sensors. Running inference locally means no 4G data costs and works completely offline.

  • > Offline Capable
  • > Zero Data Cost
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Portable Medical

Handheld diagnostic tools for rural clinics. Privacy-preserving inference ensures patient data never leaves the device.

  • > 100% Private
  • > Real-time Analysis

Engineer's FAQ

> vs. ARM Ethos-U?

ARM Ethos-U is optimized for INT8. While powerful, it treats ternary weights as standard integers, wasting 90% of memory bandwidth. EdgeCore-T1 uses native ternary packing, achieving 5x higher effective density at a fraction of the licensing cost.

> RTL Modifiability?

Yes. Unlike black-box IP from major vendors, our Commercial license includes full SystemVerilog source code. You can optimize the datapath for your specific sensor inputs or custom SoC fabric.

> Academic Access?

We provide free simulation licenses for verified research institutions. We only ask for citation in published papers. Contact us via the form below with your .edu email.

> Toolchain Support?

We provide a Python-based compiler that quantizes PyTorch models into our proprietary Ternary Instruction Set Architecture (T-ISA). A C++ runtime is provided for bare-metal or Linux environments.

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