Infineon launches new development board to accelerate edge AI and ML applications

Infineon Technologies recently launched a new development board designed to provide a quick-start platform for using machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML and AI) at the edge. The development board is named CY8CKIT-062S2-AI and is driven by the PSoC 62S2 microcontroller.

“Infineon’s PSoC 6 AI Evaluation Kit is your perfect partner for easy prototyping and collecting real data to quickly build compelling ML products,” the company said in a product description. “This cookie-sized hardware platform focused on edge AI enables customers to evaluate Infineon’s machine learning platform, Imagimob Studio, as well as ready-to-deploy ML models and other software products.”

According to Linux Gizmos, the CY8CKIT-062S2-AI development board uses the PSoC 62S2 microcontroller with two different Arm cores on board: an Arm Cortex-M4 running at up to 150MHz and a Cortex-M0+ running at up to 100MHz, which are combined into a "microcontroller subsystem" with cryptographic acceleration, a real-time clock (RTC), 8kB instruction cache, 1MB static RAM (SRAM), and 2MB flash memory.

Despite its compact size, the board is equipped with a comprehensive set of onboard sensors: including a six-axis inertial measurement unit (IMU) and dedicated three-axis magnetometer, a pressure sensor, a pair of digital MEMS microphones, and an Infineon XENSIV 60GHz radar sensor. The radar sensor includes a finite state machine (FSM) to reduce the power consumption and processing load of the host microcontroller, providing human presence detection within a range of nearly 50 feet, and sub-millimeter motion sensing.

Data input from all of these sensors can be used for on-device machine learning models - if you want to get started as soon as possible, the company has a range of products ready for deployment. At the same time, if you prefer to develop yourself, the kit can also be linked to Imagimob Studio for data collection, custom model development and tuning. In addition, the development board is equipped with on-board Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules for wireless communication.

With this development board, Infineon provides developers with a powerful tool that enables them to enter the field of edge AI and ML applications more quickly and advance the development of a new generation of smart devices.