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by gnom69 2817 days ago
From the comments by user Zepan:

Hi, thanks for your report ! I’m zepan, the shopkeeper of Sipeed Tech. Taobao shop, Sipeed M1 is our first AI moulde ,and the second RISC-V module.

I need correct some mistake in your article, and supplement some information.

1. The chip name is K210, not K201; and it is RV64GC.

2. It have 8MB high speed SRAM, not 6MB.

3. There are 5.9MB SRAM can be used for convolutional neural network acceleration, so, it is possible to run small model like tiny-yolo v2,MobileNet, as you see in face detection routine video.

4. It isn’t preoder mode before 10.7, but it is too popular that it is sold out in 10.7, and I change it to preorder mode.

More information:

1. It can be up to 800MHz if you want, and give you more than 0.5TOPS, 240FPS detection speed @ QVGA.

2. It is low power consume, unlike other ARM board; It only consume 0.35W when running face detection routine.

3. Its IO speed in simple test is up to 300MHz

4. It is possible to run openwrt on it as it have MMU, but too tight in ram.

5. We’re adding micropython to the board, and soon you can simply run python on it, you know python is the best lang for DL.

6. We also have Mic Array board, and another fancy board in development.

7. We have best price for those solution, Sipeed M1 module in $6, M1w(with wifi) in $7.5, the simple dev board with LCD, 2M pixel Camera, I2S MIC, Speaker PA, on board downloader, in $15.

8. We have model shop soon, you can sell your model on our online modelshop.

9. Our telgram link: https://t.me/joinchat/IoJz2UoLTnlscC0WrCCNrg

Our qq group: 878189804 for AI, 826307240 (3k members group) for common discussion.

1 comments

Possibly a very nice chip. A couple of questions: - any ADC on board? - I presume it uses QSPI flash memory? - will the items be available on aliexpress?
I don't think it has a GP ADC on board, and the GPIO section only seems to talk about interrupts bus width configuration, so probably no ADC on those pins either; but the datasheet does mention an Audio Processing Unit "APU".
There's a I2S bus that's used for communicating with external component (audio codec) that has ADC/DAC. Perhaps APU is meant for that?