Research on the Architecture of Edge Computing SoC with Ultra-Low Power

An ultra-low power consumption SoC integrated with the power management unit that used for edge computing is present in this paper. The Rocket Core that bases on low power open-source hardware instruction set RISC-V is used as the core in the SoC, and open source deep learning accelerator NVDLA is integrated into the SoC. Besides, rich peripheral interfaces are integrated to meet the most demands for IoT applications. To analyze and evaluate the power feature, the proposed SoC is synthesized in SMIC 40nm LP CMOS technology; and some applications are run on this SoC to estimate the power consumption.