Embedded computing specialist Banana Pi has introduced a brand new computer-on-module, designed to be appropriate with Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and Compute Module 5 carriers with diminished performance or particular carriers with full performance — and that includes a SpacemiT eight-core RISC-V CPU with synthetic intelligence (AI) acceleration.
“Banana Pi BPI-CM6 is a industrial grade RISC-V core board,” Banana Pi explains of the module. “It [is a] design with SpacemiT K1 eight-core RISC-V chip, [and the] CPU integrates 2.0 TOPS [Tera-Operations Per Second] AI computing energy. 8/16G[B] DDR and eight/16/32/128G[B] eMMC. Designed with board to board connectors for enhanced stability, identical as Raspberry Pi CM4.”
The BPI-CM6 computer-on-module options eight RISC-V CPU cores and a claimed two TOPS of AI compute. (📷: Banana Pi)
The BPI-CM6, dropped at our consideration by Linux Gizmos, is a computer-on-module designed to be appropriate with service boards constructed for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and Compute Module 5 — although with a 3rd board-to-board connector, offering connectivity to additional general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) options unavailable if put in on a two-connector CM4/CM5 service board.
On the coronary heart of the module is the SpacemIT Key Stone K1, a system-on-chip that options eight X60 64-bit RISC-V cores working at as much as 1.6GHz and that includes the RISC-V Vector Extensions (RVV 1.0) to speed up machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) workloads. The CPU, the corporate claims, can ship two tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute at minimal precision — and there is additionally an Creativeness BXE-2-32 graphics processor working at 819MHz for extra compute.
The module will launch, Banana Pi has confirmed, with 8GB of LPDDR4 and 16GB of eMMC flash storage on-board, with at 16GB LPDDR4 choice plus assist for 8GB, 32GB, and 128GB eMMC storage. There is a Realtek RTL8211F gigabit Ethernet transceiver, plus an RTL8852 Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.2 SDIO module for wi-fi connectivity.
A reference service board breaks out a spread of the module’s options in a compact footprint. (📷: Banana Pi)
The options out there to the person, in fact, rely upon what’s damaged out by the service board — and Banana Pi has designed its personal as a reference level. This encompasses a single HDMI connector, two gigabit Ethernet ports, one USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0 Sort-A port plus a USB Sort-C On-The-Go (OTG) port, microSD Card storage, two M.2 M-key slots every with a two-lane PCI Categorical Gen 2.1 interface from the 5 out there on the module, two four-lane MIPI Digicam Serial Interface (CSI) inputs, one four-lane Show Serial Interface (DSI) output, and a 26-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header.
Extra info on the Banana Pi BPI-CM6 is out there on the corporate’s wiki; on the time of writing, pricing and availability had but to be introduced.
