Pumpkin I500 SBC Uses MediaTek I500 SoC for Edge AI Applications

OLogic has released more details on their Pumpkin i500 Single Board Computer built to support computer vision and AI edge computing. The hardware development kit was first announced at the beginning of last year and initially scheduled to launch around that same time but was delayed due to some reasons.

The Pumpkin i500 Evaluation Kit is powered by a powerful MediaTek i500 SoC combined with Quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 and Quad-core Cortex-A53 power-efficient 64-bit CPU solutions together with an Arm Mali-G72 MP3 GPU. The board also features a rich set of GPIO for expandability and a dual-Band Wi-Fi (2.4GHz/ 5GHz) and Bluetooth 5 that make it suitable for indoor/outdoor home and industrial applications.

Features and Specifications of the Pumpkin i500 SBC include:

• CPU: MediaTek i500 octa-core processor with quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 running at up to 2.0 GHz and quad-core Cortex-A53 cores at 2.0 GHz
• GPU: Arm Mali-G72 MP3
• Dual-core Tensilica Vision P6 DSP/AI accelerator @ 525 MHz
• Upgradable 2GB LPDDR4 RAM
• 16GB eMMC flash
• 4-lane MIPI DSI connector
• Up to 25MP camera support via MIPI CSI connector
• 3.5mm stereo headset jack
• 2x Digital PDM microphone connectors
• 8-ch audio input / 8-ch audio output
• 1080p60 H.264 video decoder
• 1080p30 H.264 encoder
• 10/100M Ethernet (RJ45)
• Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) 2×2 MIMO dual-band (2.4GHz, 5GHz) and Bluetooth 5 for wireless connectivity
• 1x USB-C OTG port
• 2x USB-A host ports
• Micro USB port for debugging
• 40-pin GPIO connector
• 5V DC via one USB-C port, and,
• Support for TensorFlow Lite and Object detection (MobileNet + SSD)
• Security Features: Secure Boot, Trust Zone, TF-A, OP-TEE
• Operating System: Yocto Linux and Android 10

The Pumpkin i500 SBC enables the development of AI vision products like control panels, smart appliances, points-of-sales, smart hubs, robots etc. Users can also easily deploy their workloads to the Edge through standard containers because the board is qualified for AWS IoT Greengrass and certified for Microsoft Azure IoT Edge.

The manufacturer of the board provides support for Yocto Linux and Android 10 operating systems using Linux 5.4 kernel, as well as support for TensorFlow Lite and object detection with MobileNet and SSD models. This affords third party customers the opportunity to test AI models and Computer Vision algorithms on top of the base layer. Support for software is also provided through the Pumpkin Software SDK which is equally supported by BayLibre.

More details on the Pumpkin i500 SBC can be found on the company’s product page or on Seeed Studio where the board was listed to sell for $299.

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