Apitronix Semiconductor
The World’s Most Powerful Real-Time Processor
Making advanced real-time control simple
From a heritage in automotive electronics, working for many of the world’s largest car manufacturers, Apitronix has developed a new class of processor with 16x the raw performance of the leading real-time microcontrollers on the market today.
This performance is further enhanced with class-leading ML inference technology, offering more than 20x the performance of its closest competitors.
Best of all, the simplicity of developing software, from today’s existing models and codebases, whilst ensuring isolation and independence of each process is unique to the Apitronix Architecture.
Apitronix’ first IC, Cerebellum™, has 220 32 bit RISC-V cores and offers 392,700 CoreMark™ of raw power. Because each core has its own dedicated memory and runs in isolation, all of that power is available and not blocked by cross-core interference. Each core runs its own Tasklet linked through contracts-based, hardware-enforced, fully deterministic real-time messages carried on MessagePrism™, the company’s unique and innovative high bandwidth communication technology.
Applications
Cerebellum targets automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers with their moves to increase integration and minimise BoM costs for new vehicles. The industry particularly values the ability to streamline the development process and cut around a year from the time-to-market for new car models. Beyond automotive applications, the chip is applicable to many high performance control products, such as UAVs, industrial control and aerospace.
Implementation
Apitronix’ cores can be programmed in a mixture of any suitable embedded language including C, Rust, C++, and Ada. There is no need for the system to be in a single language, for instance drivers in C on one core can communicate easily with a Rust-based state machine on another. Alternatively, where models are built in Simulink, they can be automatically converted without having to generate each rule as code. TF Lite Micro models will be able to directly run on a subset of the cores, in true real-time, and without blocking real-time applications on the other cores.
Specification
220 RISC-V cores at 500MHz
392,700 CoreMark™ (exceeds Intel i9-9880H)
880GB/s memory bandwidth (exceeds HBM3)
Unique MessagePrism™ 10 Gbps bus for secure, hardware-enforced, deterministic messaging
RAM 24-256KB per core
Voting mechanisms for redundancy in safety critical systems
Floating point acceleration
ML inference extensions
Wide range of digital IO options
About Apitronix
Apitronix Semiconductor is led by experienced engineers with deep experience in embedded systems and real-time automotive applications. Apitronix is the brainchild of Dr Ken Tindell, a world-renowned expert in real-time systems and messaging systems and designed a real-time operating system that’s in 1.5 billion devices. The company is working with a number of global automotive OEMs and Tier 1 vendors, as well as with specialists in fields as diverse as UAVs and industrial control.
Apitronix is a proud participant in Silicon Catalyst and is part of ChipStart UK.
Contact Apitronix
Email: info@apitronix.com
Phone: +44 1904 500560
Apitronix Semiconductor Ltd is registered in England Co.No. 15536198. Patents pending.