The eIQ® Neutron Neural Processing Unit (NPU) is a highly scalable accelerator core architecture providing machine learning (ML) acceleration. The architecture provides power and performance optimized NPUs integrated with NXP's very wide portfolio of microcontrollers and applications processors.
Optional system-level components such as tightly coupled memory, DMAs, data mover cores, control cores and weight compression decompression technology for optimal processing throughput.
The eIQ Neutron NPUs offer support for a wide variety of neural network types such as CNN, RNN, TCN and Transformer networks and more. ML application development with the eIQ Neutron NPU is fully supported by the eIQ machine learning software development environment.