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In 2023, Arm joins hands with Amou Technology to target the smart vision market. The new reference design uses Arm's processor and system IP, which are widely used in the field of intelligent vision, and integrates Arm's existing subsystem IP with Arm Technology IP for the first time.
In this way, it further provides pre-integrated and verified subsystems to industry customers, which ultimately shortens the R&D cycle and enables developers to focus on product differentiation.
In 2023, Arm joins hands with Amou Technology to target the smart vision market
Keywords: Arm smart vision smart camera
A major feature of the intelligent age is that actions that used to be generated by human consciousness and command can be completed by machines when necessary, and a considerable scale of innovative applications has been born as a result. Intelligent vision is a typical example of innovative applications in the new era.
In 2023, Arm joins hands with Amou Technology to target the smart vision market
For example, in the field of family residences, in addition to the upgrade of basic security functions, the "care" function of smart cameras is gradually improving, and the necessary monitoring and abnormal situation alarms for the elderly, babies, pets and other groups have become new needs of users; In the field of people flow statistics and behavior analysis can be carried out through cameras and visual analysis technology, and then store layout or promotion strategy can be optimized; in the field of urban management, China is already at the forefront of the world in applying visual technology to urban security monitoring and intelligent traffic management; in addition In the field of industrial manufacturing, the application of intelligent vision in automatic navigation and positioning, product quality inspection, etc. is gradually spreading...
Behind these demands, the requirements for intelligent vision technology and its systems include:
1) The collaboration of cloud, edge, and terminal capabilities facilitates fast, efficient, and low-latency processing of massive video data; 2) The empowerment of AI technology is used to improve image analysis and recognition capabilities; 3) Improve the level of computing power, To deal with large-scale image data with high precision and high concurrency; 4) Privacy and security protection capabilities to resist malicious attacks and information theft.
From the perspective of Arm, as the world's leading semiconductor IP supplier, it currently has more than 90% market share in the smart camera market, and also receives new demand feedback from different customers, including edge computing, product design differentiation, etc. 
Arm's comprehensive IoT solution in 2023
Based on this, Arm recently officially announced the launch of the Arm Intelligent Vision Reference Design for vision application equipment.
Ma Jian, vice president of business development of Arm's Internet of Things Division, said: "The Chinese visual market has a leading position in the world and a high level of innovation activity. Arm's intelligent visual reference design will serve the Chinese market."
About the core content of Arm intelligent vision reference design
This Arm Smart Vision reference design includes CPU, ISP, NPU and VPU processor options and the subsystem IP that glues these components together, including:
1) Arm Corstone-1000: First of all, Corstone is a set of pre-integrated and verified subsystems, which is the foundation of Arm's IoT solutions, designed to accelerate chip product tape-out and mass production, so that designers can focus on enhancing themselves differentiation. The Corstone-1000 is the first subsystem designed for Cortex-A. The basic configuration of this solution is the Cortex-A35 or Cortex-A53 that has passed the mass production test, and has obtained the Arm SystemReady IR certification, ensuring that Linux and other operating systems can be started immediately. use and simplify software development.
2) Arm Corstone-300: As a low-power standby subsystem, it aims to reduce the power consumption of edge devices and improve system efficiency.
3) Arm Mali-C55 Image Signal Processor (ISP): It is Arm’s ISP product with the smallest area, lowest power consumption, and highest configuration so far. It is responsible for providing upgraded image quality functions and has comprehensive software tool support.
4) Third-party IP from ARM Technology, including "Linglong" VPU and "Zhouyi" NPU. "Linglong" VPU supports compact, multi-format and high-efficiency video codec processing, providing flexible combination and selection; Supports a variety of typical deep learning frameworks, such as Tensorflow, Caffe, Pytorch, etc., to accelerate the deployment of customer applications.
Based on the Arm vision reference design, developers no longer need to start from scratch, but can focus on product differentiation, use tools to quickly convert ideas into products and push them to the market, significantly reducing the cost and risk of chip development, and shortening the development cycle . In addition, the reference design has trusted underlying IP technology, and has obtained important industry standard certifications such as Arm SystemReady IR and PSA Certified Level 2 in terms of enhanced security, portability and compatibility.
At present, the target audience of the intelligent vision reference design includes start-up companies in the field of edge AI, cross-border innovative companies, or system companies that want to conduct vertical integration.
Arm officially launches Intelligent Vision Partner Program
In this release, the "Arm Smart Vision Partner Program" was officially released. Arm will join hands with AI vision, chip design, software, algorithm, system integration and other partners to create a powerful ecosystem of intelligent vision applications based on the Arm architecture to further accelerate the development of vision hardware, software and systems.
At present, more than ten domestic leading enterprises from different fields of intelligent IoT have joined the program.
Among them, Baidu Flying Paddle has realized the integration and matching of Flying Paddle-based visual model library and Arm virtual hardware; ArcherMind joined as a software design partner, and recently became the first ISP tuning partner approved by Arm in China; Xiamen Xingchen Technology passed the PSA security certification at the beginning of the month, demonstrating the increased emphasis on security and privacy protection by leaders in the intelligent vision industry.
In general, because most companies do not have a huge team covering the front-end and back-end design of all chip architectures, their R&D work needs to rely on chip design companies. So through this ecological plan, Arm hopes to promote ecological partners to be familiar with Arm's reference design, and quickly tape out based on the reference design, and finally help their customers launch satisfactory chips. In this process, the key role of Arm is to form a pre-integrated and pre-verified standardized subsystem, based on which ecological partners can design more innovative applications.
Arm IoT Comprehensive Solution, Expansion in Progress
In 2021, Arm will release a comprehensive solution for the Internet of Things for the first time. The core is mainly composed of three parts:
1) Arm Corstone for hardware design: As described above, it is a set of pre-integrated and verified subsystems designed for specific use cases. For chip partners, Arm Corstone has greatly accelerated the process of chip tape-out and mass production.
2) Arm virtual hardware design library that empowers software development: Arm virtual hardware creates a virtual copy of the Corstone chip reference design, and popularizes it to developers through cloud services. It supports modern cloud-based development without the need to set up and maintain hardware clusters, Arm virtual hardware can easily scale to thousands of devices, and since Arm virtual hardware is available simultaneously with underlying IP and Corstone designs, developers and OEMs can Starting work before it is available will save design time and cost significantly.
3) The Project Centauri ecosystem plan that enables simpler software reuse: Project Centauri expands the innovation of IoT software, and focuses on software reuse through the abstraction of defined standards, security frameworks, and RTOS complexity, supporting Developers share investment on more devices to reduce costs.
On the basis of ever-increasing user cases, in order to meet the ever-changing needs of IoT customers, Arm continues to expand the above comprehensive IoT solutions, and gradually develops in security, cloud native, edge computing, voice recognition, and Develop new products or functions in terms of intelligent vision. In the future, Arm's comprehensive IoT solutions will also bring continuous changes to the industry.
