Eindhoven, Netherlands – November 26, 2019 – NXP
Semiconductors today announced support of the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format
within its edge intelligence environment (eIQ®). NXP’s eIQ is a comprehensive machine
learning (ML) toolkit that helps original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) balance performance
needs and system cost when deploying neural networks and their associated inference
engines at the edge.
ONNX is an open standard for representing deep learning
models that enables trained models to be transferred between existing Artificial Intelligent
(AI) frameworks. By importing models in the ONNX format, NXP’s eIQ enables models to
be trained in one framework and transferred to another for inference. ML developers can then
deploy inference engines across NXP’s scalable portfolio of MCUs, high-performance i.MX RT
crossover processors, and highly-integrated i.MX and Layerscape applications processors.
“When
it comes to choosing from among the many machine learning frameworks, we want our customers
to have maximum flexibility and freedom,” said Markus Levy, head of the Artificial
Intelligence Technology Center at NXP. “An interoperable ML ecosystem is key to
driving innovation, where designers can have the freedom to develop what’s needed for their
applications. We’re happy to bring the ONNX benefits to our customer community of ML
developers.”
ONNX, a community project created by Facebook, AWS, and Microsoft,
is an open ecosystem for interchangeable AI models that provides a common way to
represent neural network models. ONNX models are currently supported in Caffe2, Microsoft
Cognitive Toolkit, MXNet, PaddlePaddle, and PyTorch, and there are connectors for many other
common frameworks and libraries. More information on ONNX can be found at
https://onnx.ai/.
About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure for a
smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better and safer. As the world
leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving innovation
in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and smart connected
solutions markets. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the
company has over 30,000 employees in more than 30 countries and posted revenue of $9.26
billion in 2017. Find out more at www.nxp.com.
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