RISC-V specialist Milk-V has introduced one more system primarily based on the free and open supply instruction set structure (ISA), and this time it is focusing on embedded synthetic intelligence and seeking to tackle the mighty NVIDIA Jetson system-on-module vary: the Milk-V Jupiter NX.
“[The] Milk-V Jupiter NX is an octa-core AI system-on-module that includes [the] SpacemiT M1/K1 SoC [System-on-Chip], onboard Wi-Fi/BT [Bluetooth], and eMMC [storage],” the corporate writes of its newest {hardware} design. “It complies with [RISC-V] RVA22 requirements, helps RVV1.0 [the RISC-V Vector Extensions], and is appropriate with [NVIDIA Jetson] Nano/Xavier NX baseboards, making it the most effective substitute for [the Jetson] Nano.”
Milk-V has launched one other RISC-V system, this time a system-on-module primarily based on the SpacemiT K1/M1 chip: the Jupiter NX. (📷: Milk-V)
The SODIMM-form-factor system-on-module, delivered to our consideration by Linux Gizmos, is designed to supply competitors to the entry-level units in NVIDIA’s Jetson household — to the purpose of being pin-compatible, that means the {hardware} is a drop-in improve although with out help for NVIDIA’s proprietary CUDA general-purpose graphics processor offload language the software program is one other matter. It is a system the corporate first unveiled again in August final yr, together with a spread of different machines and a provider board designed to simply accept as much as eight Jupiter NX boards for cluster computing tasks.
Because the identify suggests, the Jupiter NX is successfully a system-on-module variant of Milk-V’s Jupiter single-board laptop. It options the identical SpacemiT K1 or M1 64-bit eight-core processor with an Creativeness BXE-2-32 graphics processor and an accelerator for synthetic intelligence and machine studying (AI and ML) workloads delivering a claimed two tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute at minimal precision.
There’s the selection of 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, or 16GB of LPDDR4x reminiscence, optionally available eMMC storage, and an edge connector that provides connectivity embody two gigabit Ethernet PHYs, one two-lane and two one-lay PCI Categorical Gen. 2 ports, a single USB 3.0 port shared with one PCIe lane, one USB 2.0 On-The-Go (OTG) and one Host port, HDMI and MIPI Show Serial Interface (DSI) four-lane video outputs, one four-lane and two two-lane Digital camera Serial Interface (CSI) inputs, and as much as 55 general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) pins together with as much as three UART, two I2C, one SPI, and two I2S buses, and as much as three pulse-width modulation (PWM) channels.
The corporate is positioning the module as direct competitors to NVIDIA’s entry-level Jetson units. (📷: Milk-V)
Precisely what’s out there to the top consumer, in fact, relies on the provider board to which the module is linked. Along with being a drop-in substitute for carriers designed to suit NVIDIA’s Jetson pinout, Milk-V has its personal provider design. Dubbed the Cluster 08, this accepts as much as eight modules, gives Non-Risky Reminiscence Categorical (NVMe) storage for every, and gives a claimed cluster-wide bandwidth of as much as 32Gb/s with every node capable of deal with as much as 16Gb/s.
Extra data on the Jupiter NX is accessible on the Milk-V web site, together with a purchase order hyperlink to associate Arace Tech the place the system begins at $49.90 for a module with 4GB of RAM and 16GB of eMMC storage.
