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Speaker:

Mr. Takashi Miyamori, Toshiba Corporation, Japan

Title:

Design of Heterogeneous Multi-Core SoCs for ADAS and Image Recognition Applications

Abstract:

In recent years, image recognition technologies have become into practical on embedded systems for automotive, digital-consumer, and mobile products. We have developed heterogeneous multi-core SoCs for Advanced Driving Assistance System (ADAS) and other image recognition applications. Because these applications require tremendous computing power, there are big challenges to achieve such a high performance with low power consumption. Furthermore, high accurate recognition is also required. We proposed a heterogeneous multicore architecture that consists of energy efficient VLIW processor cores with a SIMD coprocessor and hardware accelerators. Novel image recognition features, such as CoHOG (Co-occurrence Histograms of Oriented Gradients) and color-based features, are introduced and the dedicated hardware accelerators have been developed for them. In this presentation, we will introduce design of these image recognition SoCs. Our latest SoC is composed with two 4-core processor clusters and 14 hard-wired accelerators. Its peak performance is about 1.9TOPS. It improves the performance of Pedestrian Detection (PD) at night-time by the new hardware accelerator that accelerates the color-based feature calculation and classification.

Bio:

Takashi Miyamori received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 1985 and 1987, respectively. In 1987, he joined Toshiba Corporation, where he was engaged in the research and development of microprocessors. He is currently a Senior Manager of Digital Media SoC Department at Center for Semiconductor Research & Development and working on the development of image recognition SoCs, image signal processing hardware and software, and multi-core processors for embedded applications.



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