Ara Software Development Kit

ARA-SDK

The Ara software development kit (SDK) streamlines the development and deployment of a wide range of AI models on Ara240 DNPUs and modules. The Ara SDK features an extensible AI compiler to support the diverse and evolving model architectures; including convolutional and fully connected neural networks, transformers for vision tasks, as well highly complex models for language like LLMs, as well as Vision-Language, coding and function calling (agentic) models. The SDK offers efficient dataflow optimization, flexible quantization methods and support for multiple datatypes, ensuring high-performance and low-latency for edge-AI applications.

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Key Features

  • Optimal execution planning to automatically determine efficient data and compute flow for any AI graph
  • Extensible compiler that supports models from CNNs to complex vision transformers (ViTs) and LLMs
  • Programmable compute engines easily accommodate new model operators
  • Multiple datatype support - Handles 8-bit integer (INT8) (Ara-2), 4-bit integer(INT4) weights and MXINT8 (Ara-2 only)
  • Software-defined tensor partitioning and routing optimized for dataflow
  • Flexible quantization methods

Supported Devices

  • ARA240: Ara240 Discrete Neural Processing Unit (DNPU)

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