Astra™ Machina™ Foundation Series

Product Summary

The Astra Machina Foundation Series Evaluation Kit enables easy and fast prototyping of the Synaptics SL Series of multimodal AI-native embedded IoT processors. The modular design supports interchangeable compute modules on a common I/O board, with daughter cards for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, debugging, and flexible I/O.

The evaluation system supports all Synaptics SL1600 series SoCs, including the SL1680, SL1640, and SL1620. This computing flexibility combined with a unified software experience makes it ideal for evaluating AI-enabled edge computing solutions for consumer, enterprise, and industrial IoT system designs.

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The Astra Machina evaluation system is supported by the open Yocto Linux distribution delivered as part of the Synaptics ESSDK and available on the Synaptics Astra GitHub. With the Synaptics AI toolkit, users at every stage of their AI journey, from beginner to advanced, can benefit from a feature-rich and robust open edge AI platform.

Leverage industry-standard open-source libraries and frameworks such as GStreamer and V4L2 to create video and display pipelines. Leverage multi-TOPS Neural Processing Units (NPUs) to securely perform inference for a variety of functions including object detection, classification, and segmentation. Use AI-enabled audio algorithms for far-field voice, wake word, echo cancellation, noise reduction, and voice biometric authentication.