Single board Micro-Controllers for

Industrial AI application
Note: Bright Green indicates best suitable for our application

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NXP i.MX 8M
Integrated 1 GB Machine learning Better performance:
Coral Dev SoC (Quad-core Only Support Tensorflow
1 GC7000 Lite LPDDR Accelerator – Google WiFi $149.99 But only compatible with
Board Arm Cortex-A53, Lite
Graphics 4 Edge TPU coprocessor tensorflow models
plus Cortex-M4F)

Support Tensorflow, DeepStream SDK

NVIDIA® USB 3.0 : 4 Flexible with decent
4 GB PyTorch, Caffe/Caffe2,
Jetson No WiFi GPU performance
Quad-core ARM 64-bit Keras, MXNet, and others DeepStream SDK is
Nano™ 128-core NVIDIA better than Rasp pi:
2 A57 @ 1.43 GHz LPDDR NVIDIA's toolkit for $99.00
Developer Maxwell™ GPU Solution : Can be used to integrate
4 25.6 Support Tensorflow, AI-powered video
Kit WiFi adapter any environment on the
GB/s PyTorch, Caffe/Caffe2, analytics and real-time
can be used internet
Keras, MXNet, and others processing

Compatible with
TensorFlow.
1GB, (Has documentation and
Broadcom
Raspberry Pi 2GB or courses for the RPi 4) Compatible with USB 3.0 : 2 4GB – $55 Better than jetson nano in
BCM2711,
4 Computer Broadcom 4GB Google’s Artificial USB 2 : 2 2GB – $45 terms of CPU
3 quad-core Compatible with Coral USB
Model B VideoCore VI LPDDR Intelligence Yourself Wifi 1GB – $35 performance but setback
Cortex-A72 (ARM Accelerator to further speed
4(depen (AIY) kits. etho in GPU play
v8) 64-bit SoC @ up the RPi 4 machine
ding on
1.5GHz learning capabilities
model)

AM5729 - Dual Capable of running Gigabit BeagleBone AI offers a

Supports popular machine
Arm Cortex-A15 TensorFlow Lite for Ethernet, good balance between
BeagleBone PowerVR 1 GB learning frameworks like
5 microprocessor inference. Can interface WiFi adapter $100-$125 processing power and
AI: SGX544 DDR3L TensorFlow, Keras, and
subsystem, Dual with various sensors can be added flexibility. It's suitable for
Caffe.
Arm Cortex-M4 and peripherals through via USB industrial AI applications
 co-processors, 3D its GPIOs, I2C, UART, requiring real-time
graphics and SPI interfaces. processing and
accelerator interfacing with various
sensors and peripherals.
However, it might have
slightly lower GPU
performance compared to
some other options like
NVIDIA Jetson Nano.

Not be the most suitable

choice for industrial AI
Compatible with various applications due to
Gigabit
Linux distributions limited software support
2 GB Ethernet,
ASUS Rockchip RK3288 including Debian and for machine learning
Dual WiFi (802.11
6 Tinker Board quad-core ARM Mali-T764 GPU Ubuntu. Limited support for $80-$100 frameworks and
Channel b/g/n),
S Cortex-A17 CPU machine learning potentially less robust
DDR3 Bluetooth
frameworks compared to community support
4.0
other boards. compared to other
options like Raspberry Pi
or NVIDIA Jetson

Offers a balance between

AVNET performance and power
Development efficiency suitable for
Board, various industrial
Single Board applications. Provides
ARM Cortex-A55, Integrated USB,
7 Computer, Linux, RTOS, etc. ₹28,348.95 interfaces for connecting
Cortex-M33 graphics (V2L) Ethernet, etc.
RZ/V2L, external sensors and
ARM peripherals. Supports
Cortex-A55, real-time operating
Cortex-M33 systems for deterministic
processing.

Cypress’ Offers a balance between

2 GB industry-lead processing power and
Arm A35
LPDDR ing 802.11ac flexibility. Suitable for
AI-ML Quad-Core 64-bit
4× Vec4 Shaders 4@ Wi-Fi and industrial AI applications
Board | @ 1.2 GHz, TensorFlow, Keras, and
9 with 16 Execution 1,600 Dual-Mode 35,325.78 requiring real-time
I.IMX8X_AI Cortex-M4F Core, Caffe.
Units MHz Bluetooth processing and
_ML Tensilica HiFi 4
Industri wireless interfacing with sensors.
DSP Core
al connectivity, Supports TensorFlow
2 USB (2× Lite for inference tasks.
 3.0 and 1× Can be expanded with
Micro-USB additional connectivity
B) options. Supports H.265
up to 4K @ 30 fps
Decode and H.264 up to
1080 @ 60 fps Encode.
HDMI output and dual
MIPI display support.

Jetson Nano
Flexible with decent GPU
Developer
performance better than
Embedded
4 GB Raspberry Pi. Can be
Development
64-bit TensorFlow, PyTorch, used to integrate any
Board A57 Quad-core ARM 128-core NVIDIA ₹25000 -
10 LPDDR Caffe/Caffe2, Keras, DeepStream SDK USB 3.0 : 4 environment on the
Artificial A57 @ 1.43 GHz Maxwell GPU ₹30,120
4 25.6 MXNet, and others internet. Supports H.265
Intelligence
GB/s up to 4K @ 30 fps
AI
Decode and H.264 up to
Development
1080 @ 60 fps Encode.
Platform

Offers high-performance
AI capabilities suitable
for demanding industrial
applications. Features a
powerful GPU and CPU
combination. Supports a
wide range of machine
nVidia Jetson
NVIDIA Volta 6-core NVIDIA learning frameworks and
Xavier Nx 8 GB Supports TensorFlow,
GPU with 384 Carmel USB 3.1, libraries. Ideal for
11 Developer LPDDR PyTorch, Caffe/Caffe2, TensorRT, cuDNN ₹93,999
NVIDIA CUDA ARM®v8.2 64-bit PCIe applications requiring
Kit,Linux,nv 4x Keras, MXNet, and others
cores CPU real-time processing and
idia,Black
inference tasks with high
throughput and low
latency. Supports H.265
up to 4K @ 60 fps
Decode and Encode, and
H.264 up to 4K @ 30 fps
Decode and Encode.

VERGEENO Offers a balance between

64 GB
- Nvidia Cortex A7 @ 1.5 TensorFlow, Keras, and 802.11ac processing power and
12 LPDDR ₹77,999
Jetson Orin GHz Caffe Wi-Fi flexibility. Suitable for
5
Nano industrial AI applications
 requiring real-time
processing and
interfacing with sensors.
Supports TensorFlow
Lite for inference tasks.
Can be expanded with
additional connectivity
options. Supports H.265
up to 4K @ 30 fps
Decode and H.264 up to
1080 @ 60 fps Encode.
HDMI output and dual
MIPI display support.