SensiML and Efabless partner
Empowering IoT innovators to build custom smart sensing SoCs at negligible upfront cost.
SensiML has formed a strategic partnership with Efabless, a pioneer in custom semiconductor SoC development. This collaboration addresses a key challenge in IoT development: the high cost and complexity of building optimized, application-specific AI at the edge. Together, SensiML and Efabless aim to simplify and accelerate this process by delivering fully open-source, customizable solutions designed to unlock the potential of intelligent IoT devices.
With a shared vision for transparency and open-source innovation, SensiML and Efabless are addressing two of the most complex challenges in IoT development:
Sourcing silicon optimized to suit the unique requirements of a particular IoT edge product at low cost and power while fulfilling the right mix of on-board peripherals and processing to meet the specific use case
Implementing responsive, and accurate sensor AI inference models capable of running entirely within these resource-constrained edge devices
This partnership makes developing advanced AI-driven solutions accessible by slashing the complexity and cost of designing both hardware and AI models for edge IoT applications.
“We’re excited to be collaborating with Efabless to offer a comprehensive development pathway for intelligent edge devices,” said Chris Rogers, CEO of SensiML. “By combining our strengths, our combined open-source solution will allow engineers to develop their AI workload and custom SoC in unison empowering them to innovate and optimize intelligent IoT devices well beyond what is possible with stock hardware and general-purpose AI frameworks.”
Complementary Expertise for Next-Gen IoT Solutions
Efabless’s pioneering approach to custom SoC development enables companies that once found designing silicon too expensive or complex, the ability to build application-specific hardware in mere months through the chipIgnite program. Meanwhile, SensiML’s AutoML software provides embedded developers with the tools to rapidly build efficient AI models, even without extensive data science expertise. Together, the partnership opens doors to sophisticated edge AI solutions that were previously out of reach for many applications.
“Our partnership with SensiML brings the power of custom silicon within reach for developers working on cutting-edge machine learning applications,” said Mohamed Kassem, CTO of Efabless. “By combining Efabless’ accessible chip design platform with SensiML’s advanced AI tools, innovators can develop custom hardware solutions up to 10x more energy-efficient than off-the-shelf alternatives.”
A Comprehensive, Open-Source Workflow for Edge AI Development
This partnership enables a seamless hardware-software development workflow built fully on open-source technologies suitable for sensor data analytics at the IoT edge. Developers can leverage Efabless’s open-source RISC-V processor core, a variety of open-source IP hardware libraries (I/O, memory, communications, and DSP/ML accelerators), and SensiML’s open-source Piccolo AI™ AutoML toolchain, to transform raw sensor data into highly efficient, on-device inference models.
