Synaptics has announced a limited-edition Coral Dev Board based on the company’s Astra™ SL2610 product family. It has a 1 TOPS Synaptics Torq™ NPU and is the first device to feature the Coral NPU from Google Research. It is intended for the next generation of energy-efficient. Personal AI experiences in wearables, hearables, smart home, industrial control, and robotics applications. The board is optimized for ultra-low-power always-on applications using ambient sensing. Supports fast on-device AI inference, which is critical for battery-powered applications. Additionally, the board offers various hardware interfaces, including camera and display support via CSI/DSI. USB, microphone support, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity via the M.2 expansion slot.
“The Synaptics Coral Dev Board built with the Coral NPU makes it dramatically easier for developers to bring advanced AI capabilities out of the cloud and onto real devices,” said Billy Rutledge, Director, Google Research. “By combining efficient, AI-first hardware with an open and accessible software stack, this platform lowers the barrier to building private, always-on Edge AI experiences that can run all day in power-constrained environments. With Astra SL2610, Synaptics has combined efficient, AI-first hardware with a strong developer-focused software stack, and our collaboration reflects a shared commitment to making it easier for developers to bring advanced, secure, AI capabilities to Edge applications.”
“Gemma family of open models was created to make its state-of-the-art AI research more accessible to developers and researchers,” said Olivier Lacombe, Product Lead, Google DeepMind. “With the Synaptics Coral Dev Board, developers can immediately start developing with Gemma 3 270M on optimized Edge hardware, enabling fast iteration and new classes of on-device generative and perception-based applications.”
Accelerating Edge AI Development and Prototyping
Designed for AI engineers, system architects, and hardware developers. The platform is designed to offer an open environment for experimentation and prototyping. Another method through which Synaptics supports the development of edge AI applications. Is through the Torq open source toolchain based on the company’s own MLIR. When used in conjunction with the open source edge AI model family. From Google Gemma™, developers can leverage the power of the platform to develop efficient edge AI applications. In association with Grinn Global and RS, Synaptics is releasing a limited-edition version. Of the board that is pre-configured with the Gemma 3 270M model. This is based on the Grinn AstraSOM-2619 system-on-module and allows developers. To leverage the power of the platform for the development of generative and perception-based AI applications.
“The Synaptics Coral Dev Board reflects our commitment to building an open, developer-first Edge AI ecosystem,” said Vikram Gupta, SVP & GM, Edge Compute & Connectivity Solutions, Synaptics. “With our Astra SL2610 product line, backed by open-source models, tools, and a ready-to-use development experience, we’re accelerating the prototyping to production design cycle. This development board is the first of many we plan to create in partnership with Google Research as we continue expanding our Edge AI ecosystem.”
“While developing the hardware for this project, we focused on keeping it compact, while integrating all the essential interfaces developers need to prototype, test, and build Edge AI solutions. Synaptics’ Astra processors make it remarkably straightforward to design and bring development boards to life,” said Robert Otreba, CEO, Grinn Global. “With the Astra™ SL2610, we were able to rapidly build a developer-ready platform that balances performance, power efficiency, and openness. Combined with the Google Research collaboration, this partnership delivers a truly compelling foundation for Edge AI innovation.”
“Edge AI developers everywhere are demanding accessible, production grade platforms they can start building on immediately,” said Richard Curtin, SVP, Product & Supplier Solutions at RS. “As a long-standing Google Research and Coral partner, we’re proud to bring the new Synaptics Coral Dev Board to a global customer base. This latest innovation puts powerful, developer ready Edge AI hardware directly into the hands of AI and ML engineers helping them accelerate prototyping, scale solutions faster, and bring real world AI applications to market with confidence.”
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