“We are very excited to have the opportunity to offer Synaptics’ world-class solutions to our customers,” said Kristin Schuetter, senior vice president of products at Mouser. “Our partnership with Synaptics will benefit design engineering customers who require access to the latest AI and cutting-edge products.”.
“Mouser’s decades of experience as an authorized and trusted distributor of cutting-edge components for design engineers make it an ideal partner for Synaptics,” said John Weil, vice president of business for IoT processors and edge AI at Synaptics. “In a time of rapid change and fragmentation, this agreement brings our AI-native edge IoT platform closer to a broad customer base so they can easily add AI capabilities to their designs while meeting stringent power, performance, cost, and space constraints. With its world-class service and streamlined global logistics, we are confident that Mouser will provide early access and top-tier support for our industry-leading product portfolio.”.
The Synaptics SL1680 Evaluation Kit is part of the Astra Machina Foundation series of evaluation-ready kits that enable quick and easy prototyping for the Synaptics SL series of multimodal embedded processors. The kit is based on the SL1680 embedded IoT processor, which incorporates high-performance compute engines, including a quad-core 64-bit Arm® Cortex®-A73 CPU subsystem, a multi-TOPS NPU, and a feature-rich, high-efficiency GPU. The SL1680 Evaluation Kit offers a combination of performance and feature integration optimized for multimodal workloads in consumer, enterprise, and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications, with hardware accelerators for edge inference, security, graphics, vision, and audio.
The Synaptics SL1640 Evaluation Kit is based on the SL1640 SoC, a secure, cost- and power-optimized embedded IoT processor featuring a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU, a TOPS 1.6+ NPU, and an Imagination GE9920 GPU with 16-bit operations and 90 GFLOPS. The device also includes Ultra HD video encoding and decoding channels, as well as audio DSP. The SL1640 kit enables applications such as enterprise conferencing, AI audio, visualization and signage, and industrial and consumer control panels.
The Synaptics SL1620 Evaluation Kit enables easy development based on the SL1620 SoC, which is designed and optimized for embedded applications requiring powerful processing, advanced AI capabilities, and 3D graphics. This chip comes with a Linux® operating system, superior audio algorithms, a variety of peripherals, dual displays, and a complementary Synaptics SoC for connectivity and audio interfaces.
The three Astra Machina Foundation Series evaluation kits feature interchangeable core compute modules, a common I/O board, flexible I/O options, and auxiliary cards for connectivity and debugging. The kits also integrate the Synaptics Veros™ wireless solution for Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity.
