Application areas
The architecture supports real-time applications such as object detection, predictive maintenance, and voice recognition, making it ideal for smart homes, industrial automation, and medical devices.
PSA Level 3 Security:
With PSA Level 3 security, ECC memory, and open-source Linux SDKs, the SL2610 combines robust protection with maximum flexibility for developers. Its key advantage lies in delivering multimodal, context-aware intelligence directly at the edge, enabling lower latency, greater privacy, and autonomous decision-making without cloud dependency. Learn more about SOMs.
SYNAPTICS Torq™ Edge AI Platform in the SL216x Series:
Featuring five pin-compatible processor families, the SL216x series covers a wide range of edge-native AI solutions—from passively cooled, battery-powered devices to high-performance industrial vision systems. It is the first to combine SYNAPTICS’ Torq™ Edge AI platform with transformer support, the CNN-capable Torq T1 NPU, and the first production implementation of Google’s Coral NPU.
This integrated architecture enables dynamic support for new vendors, making edge AI designs future-proof. Torq offers developers complete flexibility through a comprehensive compiler and runtime environment based on the open-source IREE/MLIR projects, supporting standard and emerging model formats such as LiteRT, PyTorch, ONNX, and JAX.
The Software Development Kit (SDK) for the SYNAPTICS Astra Machina SL2600 series is available on GitHub and enables rapid prototyping of multimodal, AI-native IoT applications. It features a flexible design with a core compute module, I/O baseboard, expansion cards for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, debugging, and programmable interfaces. The evaluation kit is compatible with the SL2619 SoC family, which offers excellent price-performance for IoT applications and is based on the open Yocto Linux software environment. The Astra Machina SL2610 kit will be available soon through the CODICO Sample Shop. Starting in Q2 2026, CODICO will also offer SOMs based on the SL2610.
Why is the SYNAPTICS Astra SL261x SoC family suitable for Edge AI?
The Astra SL261x family integrates a highly efficient 1 TOPS NPU, optimized for transformer models, PSA Level 3 security, and the Torq™ Edge AI platform with Coral NPU support. This enables high-performance, multi-mode AI at the edge with low power consumption, minimal latency, and maximum device design flexibility IoT, industrial and doctors.
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