Cadence releases OpenVX 1.1 Application Programming Kit for
Vision P5 and Vision P6 DSPs
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadence
Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that the
Cadence® Tensilica® Vision P-Series DSPs are
the first imaging/vision DSPs to pass Khronos™ Group's conformance
tests for the OpenVX™ 1.1 specification. Application developers can
now take advantage of Tensilica Vision P5/P6 functionality without
detailed knowledge of the hardware architecture and still achieve
high performance. This enables faster development of computer
vision and imaging applications on Tensilica Vision P-Series DSPs
being deployed in applications processors for mobile, automotive,
drone, security, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) and
other markets.
In addition, Cadence released the OpenVX 1.1 Application
Programming Kit (APK) for Tensilica Vision DSPs, which is available
now. For more information, visit www.cadence.com/go/openvx11.
"Cadence's achievement of OpenVX 1.1 conformance for their
Tensilica Vision P5 and P6 DSPs demonstrates their commitment to
this open standard for vision processing and continues the momentum
that has been building since OpenVX's first release in 2014," said
Neil Trevett, president of the
Khronos Group. "Khronos warmly welcomes Cadence's ongoing
contributions to the growth of OpenVX and their advancement of
portable computer vision applications."
Applications developed using the standard OpenVX 1.1 API can be
compiled and run on Tensilica Vision DSPs without any code changes.
Cadence's OpenVX framework automatically schedules and executes the
appropriate DMA transfers for efficient memory access, and runs
highly optimized DSP vision-processing kernels in parallel with the
DMA transfers. The Khronos OpenVX 1.1 compliance certification
ensures that program results are consistent across various OpenVX
1.1 implementations.
"Cadence is the first company to pass OpenVX 1.1 compliance
tests using a vision-optimized DSP, and releasing the OpenVX APK is
a key milestone in making OpenVX and Tensilica's Vision P-Series
DSPs a defacto standard for computer vision, image processing and
neural network applications," said Steve
Roddy, senior group director, Tensilica marketing at
Cadence. "Application developers can now reduce application
software development time and easily take advantage of the massive
parallel processing capability of our Tensilica Vision DSPs. OpenVX
empowers application developers to redeploy applications across
many different Tensilica processor-powered chips without recoding
or re-optimizing their applications."
Vision-optimized DSPs are rapidly emerging in
application-processor-class systems on chip, with three of the top
five mobile application processor vendors now offering vision DSPs
in their flagship devices. The OpenVX standard enables the
deployment of algorithms on these complex, heterogeneous platforms
featuring CPUs, GPUs and DSPs. Tensilica Vision P-Series DSPs offer
class-leading performance of 256 MACs per cycle in less than
1mm2 of silicon, delivering higher performance in a
smaller area and with lower power than CPU- or GPU-based systems
alone.
Developed by the nonprofit, member-funded consortium Khronos
Group, OpenVX is an open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform
acceleration of computer vision applications. OpenVX enables
performance and power-optimized computer vision processing,
especially important in embedded and real-time use cases such as
face, body and gesture tracking, smart video surveillance, advanced
driver assistance systems (ADAS), object and scene reconstruction,
augmented reality, visual inspection, robotics and more.
Frank Brill, design engineering
director at Cadence, is chairman of the OpenVX Working Group.
Cadence presenters will be discussing OpenVX computer vision
library standards, as well as techniques to reduce power in
embedded deep neural network applications and scalable neural
network processors for embedded applications, at the Embedded
Vision Alliance Summit being held May 1-3,
2017 at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara,
Calif. For more information, visit
www.cadence.com/go/evs2017.
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