Atlazo Technology
Overview
October 2021
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The Grand Vision
Pioneer the AI SoC/PMIC and Algorithms for Tiny Ultra-Low Power Devices
(Application affording only 10’s of uWatts)
Heath/Wearable Automotive Industrial Agriculture Smart Home
Precise Sensing Accuracy using AI/ML and Sensor Interface Fusion
Initially focused on Health and Fitness
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Atlazo Breakthrough Solution: Enabling uWatts AI
Atlazo combines innovations in AI/ML and analog interface design to
significantly improve energy efficiency for sensor signal processing
Clk & Reset CLK and RESET Interrupt Performance Tightly
controller controller Counters
Coupled
Master Memory
AHB/AXI
Hyper-Low Power AI Processor
Interface Smart (TCM)
Async
DMA array
interface
Interconnect
Arbiter
Master
Interface AHB/AXI Compute Unit 1
Smart
Async (non-linear
DMA
interface functions)
Slave
Interface
AxonPro
Instruction
Unit
Command decode
and Sequencer
Compute Unit 2
(Conv and AI
functions) (AxonTM)
Energy Optimized Computing
(EoCTM)
Highly Efficient Voltage Conversion
(uPMICTM)
Ultra-Low Power Analog Front-End
Processing
Fusion &
ADC (JunoTM)
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Atlazo Team Strength
AI Team Mixed-Signal Team
Designed several generations of GPU, DSP, CPU and AI Designed several generations of IPs in power
Accelerators management and data acquisition
Several mass-volume production SoCs Contributed mixed-signal IPs to several mass-volume
production SoCs
Designed industry’s first production released AI
accelerator for Image and Video Designed industry’s first commercial mixed-signal
designs in sub-threshold
Deep expertise in ultra-low power design
Deep expertise in ultra-low power design
Mixed skillset of Architecture, AI and Software
Successfully commercialized Atlazo’s first PMIC and
Successfully commercialized Atlazo’s first SoC (AZ-N1) Charger (AZ-P1)
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Breakthrough Complementary Technologies (1/2)
Tight Integration of AI Processing, AFE and Energy Management
Neural Processor (AxonTM) Sensor AFE (JunoTM) Energy Optimized Compute (EoCTM)
Clk & Reset CLK and RESET Interrupt Performance Tightly
controller controller Counters
Coupled
Master Memory
Interface AHB/AXI
Smart (TCM)
Async
DMA array
interface
Processing
Fusion &
Interconnect
Arbiter
Master
Interface AHB/AXI Compute Unit 1
Smart
Async (non-linear
DMA
interface functions)
ADC
Slave
AxonPro Compute Unit 2
Interface Command decode
Instruction (Conv and AI
and Sequencer
Unit functions)
>100x energy efficiency over MCUs General Purpose Sensor Interface Adaptive/dynamic subthreshold design
Custom designed for health, audio & sensors Integrated AI for calibration Adapts to PVT and workload variations
Multi-threaded for simultaneous operations Integrated power management Works on all compute engines: CPU/DSP/AI
Performs feature extraction and inference PPG/SPO2 AFE Fast response with a hardware controller
Supports DNN, CNN, RNN,… ECG/BioZ AFE ~4X energy efficiency
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Breakthrough Complementary Technologies (2/2)
Highly Efficient Power Management IC (uPMICTM)
Most efficient PMIC on the market in its class
Fully integrated PMIC and Charger
4-in-1 PMIC • 3 step down outputs and 1 step down/step up output
• 2 programmable LDO outputs
Programmable Power • JEITA compliant charger
DC/DC
Modes Industry Leading efficiency
• 94% peak buck efficiency
Battery Programmable Spur • 95% peak boost efficiency
Charger Management • 700nA Sleep current
• Regulates down to few uA
AZ-P1 (Single Die PMIC) Only needs one inductor
Smaller PCB area Spur-free operation in BLE/Wi-Fi and audio bands
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Atlazo Axon AI Processor
Focused on Health and Fitness
(additional slides)
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AxonTM Introduction
Multi-Purpose Always-On AI/ML Processor
Designed for smart edge devices requiring ultra-low energy on-device AI/ML inference
Voice Triggering & Health Tracking & Industrial Sensor
Voice Command Biometrics Signal Classification
Best-in-Class Energy Efficiency
Purpose-built AI/ML processing engine with 10-100X improvement in energy efficiency
Designed from the ground up for signals and sensors rather than images and video
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9 AxonTM Architecture
o Includes two Compute Units
ü Compute Unit 1 (CU1) to focus on feature extraction Clk & Reset CLK and RESET Interrupt Performance Tightly
controller controller Counters
ü Compute Unit 2 (CU2) to focus on ML inference Master
Coupled
Memory
AHB/AXI
ü Tight coupling between CU1 and CU2 Interface
Async
Smart (TCM)
DMA array
interface
o Atlazo 2nd generation AI/ML processor optimized
Interconnect
Arbiter
Master
for 4-bit, 8-bit and 16-bit NN inference models Interface AHB/AXI Compute Unit 1
Smart
Async (non-linear
DMA
o Superscalar & multi-threaded architecture with interface functions)
parallelism and dual execution pipelines to execute Slave
multiple applications in parallel Interface
AxonPro
Instruction
Command decode
Compute Unit 2
(Conv and AI
and Sequencer
Unit functions)
o Smart DMA engines to minimize data movement
between CUs and CPU and between CU2 and CU1
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AxonTM TensorFlow Lite Support
o Data Front-End Processing
üAudio Feature Extraction; Mel Frequency Cepstrum
Coefficients (MFCC), etc.
üUses batch mode to perform all calculations, freeing CPU
for other jobs or CPU goes to sleep for power savings
o TensorFlow Lite Integration
üAtlazo Pre-compiler will convert a TFLite file to optimized c-
code for execution on Axon
üOptimized TensorFlow operations implemented as Batch
operations
üFully-connected, convolution, depth-wise convolution,
recurrent, matrix multiplication all supported
üActivation functions Relu, Sigmoid, Tanh
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Atlazo uPMIC
Focused on Ultra-Low Power IoT including Wearables
(additional slides)
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AZ-P1
• Efficient power and battery management
solutions featuring
ü 94% peak buck efficiency
ü 95% peak boost efficiency
ü Regulates down to 0.5V and few uA
ü 575nA battery operating current per domain
ü 3.45uA full chip operating current
• Spur-free operation compatible with BLE
and Audio
• Programmable power management unit
(PMU) for SoC power management support
ü 100KHz to 64MHz output CLK (CLKO)
ü Power up/down sequencing
ü Reset and interrupt generation
ü 4 power mode DVFS support (via GPIO)
ü Push button support for on/off & reset
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AZ-P1 Efficiency Curves
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AZ-P1 Soft Start
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AZ-P1 Fast Load Transient Response
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AZ-P1 Spur Management - Audio
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AZ-P1 Spur Management - BLE
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AZ-P1 Spur Management
50KHz
Frequency Band of Interest 2MHz
SPM OFF
-72dBm
50KHz
Frequency Band of Interest 2MHz
SPM ON
-72dBm
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