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Coral NPU: A Platform for Edge AI

The podcast provides a comprehensive overview of the Coral NPU platform, an open-source, full-stack solution for efficient Edge AI designed for low-power devices and wearables. The architecture is based on the RISC-V standard and features a scalar core, a vector execution unit, and a matrix execution unit for specialized ML acceleration. A major focus is the unified developer experience enabled by the MLIR-based compiler toolchain, which leverages IREE (Intermediate Representation Execution Environment) to compile models from frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX down to the hardware. The documentation highlights the Coral NPU’s integration into a System-on-Chip (SoC) via the AXI4 bus interface and emphasizes the importance of hardware-enforced security and extensive simulation tools, including a cycle-accurate Verilog-based simulator and the faster MPACT-CoralNPU functional simulator.