Kneron partners with Cadence to bring advanced vision applications to next-generation smart devices

Shanghai, China, December 18, 2018 - Kneron, a leading manufacturer of terminal artificial intelligence solutions, and Cadence Electronics (Cadence, Inc., NASDAQ: CDNS) jointly announced today that the two parties have cooperated to integrate Kneron's KDP 720 NPU processing The processor and Cadence Tensilica Vision P6 DSP processor are jointly marketed for high-end applications such as intelligent security and monitoring to provide richer computer vision functions for the new generation of smart devices.

Liu Juncheng, founder and CEO of Kneron, said: "Kneron's terminal artificial intelligence processor NPU IP - KDP 720 has the characteristics of low power consumption, while providing powerful computing power and excellent energy consumption efficiency, and can handle advanced and complex tasks. computing, and deep learning inference applications. Tensilica Vision P6 DSP has been widely adopted by the industry for its excellent performance and is also the first choice for our innovative imaging applications. We are pleased to cooperate with Cadence through this integrated solution. Chip manufacturers can easily integrate with host processors to accelerate SoC development and develop richer visual functions for emerging smart devices.”

Chen Huixin, Asia Pacific IP Sales Director of Cadence, said: "In response to increasingly demanding imaging and computer vision processing applications, Kneron's innovative technology and development potential have received high attention and recognition from the industry. We are very pleased to cooperate with Kneron on this The integration of Kneron's dedicated neural network processor and Vision P6 processor will form an integrated IP of powerful computer vision processing and neural network computing, bringing more innovative products to the market."

Tensilica Vision P6 DSP is based on the Cadence Tensilica Xtensa architecture and combines flexible hardware options with rich imaging and vision DSP functions, as well as numerous imaging and vision applications from existing ecosystem partners. Complete and optimized support for OpenCV-based vision and OpenVX™ 1.1 library functions, and full support for Tensilica’s extensive partner ecosystem of other application software, simulation, wafer and services.