Project description
Democratising the development of novel edge AI systems
Computer processing units (CPUs), hardware accelerators, reconfigurable hardware, tightly coupled interconnected chiplets, hardware/software codesign and codevelopment tools, system software, middleware and AI libraries and frameworks. The EU-funded REBECCA project will make significant advances in all these domains in its efforts to democratise the development of novel edge AI systems. This SME-driven project will develop a European complete hardware and software stack around a RISC-V CPU, which will provide significantly higher levels of performance, energy/power efficiency, safety and security. The project will contribute to realising business and societal opportunities by validating and demonstrating its approach on real-world use cases and benchmarks based on real-world applications from the smart appliances, energy generation, infrastructure inspection, avionics, automotive and health domains.
Objective
REBECCA, a heavily SME-driven project, will democratize the development of novel edge AI systems. Towards this aim, REBECCA will develop a purely European complete Hardware(HW) and Software(SW) stack around a RISC-V CPU, which will provide significantly higher levels of a) performance (e.g. inferences per second), b) energy/power efficiency (e.g. inferences per joule/watt), c) safety and d) security than the existing ones. This will be achieved by utilizing state-of-the-art technologies and by making significant scientific and technological advances in several key relevant domains, including a) processing units, b) hardware accelerators, c) reconfigurable hardware, d) tightly coupled interconnected chiplets e) HW/SW co-design and co-development tools, f) system software, g) middleware, and h) AI libraries and frameworks. REBECCA will significantly contribute to realizing business and societal opportunities by validating and demonstrating its approach on 4 real-world use cases and 2 benchmarks based on real-world applications from the Smart appliances, Energy Generation, Infrastructure Inspection, Avionics Automotive and Health domains.
In terms of HW, REBECCA will develop a novel chip consisting of two tightly coupled chiplets which will incorporate: a) RISC-V multicore, b) Neuromorphic AI Accelerator, c) Programmable array AI Accelerator, d) AI Accelerator utilizing a hierarchical processing architecture, e) DNN Accelerator, f) Reconfigurable hardware, g) Near-Memory-Processing, h) Memory Encryption.
In terms of SW, REBECCA will implement optimized system SW, middleware, and AI libraries that will take full advantage of the underlying novel HW.
The REBECCA platform will be complemented by a novel HW/SW Design Space Exploration tool which will allow the development of highly efficient REBECCA-based systems. REBECCA will additionally provide the means for safety and security modeling and verification for the developed HW and SW from the very early design stages.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyspace exploration
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwarecomputer processors
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssystem software
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55536 THESSALONIKI
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70013 Irakleio
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10561 Athina
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55270 Klein Winternheim
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80686 Munchen
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6534 AB Nijmegen
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3013 AK Rotterdam
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3044 BC ROTTERDAM
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5656 AE Eindhoven
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46003 VALENCIA
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46022 Valencia
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13071 Ciudad Real
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08034 Barcelona
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00131 Roma
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10129 Torino
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22100 Lund
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34445 ISTANBUL
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Vilniaus
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8604 VOLKETSWIL
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6300 Zug
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1015 Lausanne
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2000 Neuchatel
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8401 Winterthur
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