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==Peripheral NPU ==

The Neural Processign Unit (NPU) available on ORCA is based on iMX8MPlus SoC.

=== Description ===

The Neural Processing Unit (NPU) core accelerates vision image processing functions and provides enhanced performance for real-time use cases with hardware support for the OpenVX API.

Key features of the NPU block include:
* OpenVX 1.2 compliance, including extensions
* Convolutional Neural Network acceleration
* IEEE 32-bit floating-point pipeline in PPU shaders.
* Ultra-threaded parallel processing unit
* Low bandwidth at both high and low data rates
* Low CPU loading
* MMU functionality supported
* Performance Counters for DMA Profiling
* Data transfers between Neural Network Engines and the Parallel Processing Unit, with SRAM as local storage
* Neural Network Engine and Parallel Processing Unit synchronization with hardware semaphore

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