Single board Micro-Controllers for

Industrial AI application
Note: Bright Green indicates best suitable for our application

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Processing Connectivi
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NXP i.MX 8M Integrated

Machine learning Better performance:
Coral Dev SoC (Quad-core GC7000 1 GB Only Support Tensorflow
1 Accelerator – Google WiFi $149.99 But only compatible with
Board Arm Cortex-A53, Lite LPDDR4 Lite
Edge TPU coprocessor tensorflow models
plus Cortex-M4F) Graphics

Support Tensorflow, DeepStream SDK

NVIDIA® USB 3.0 : 4 Flexible with decent
PyTorch, Caffe/Caffe2,
Jetson 128-core No WiFi GPU performance
Quad-core ARM 4 GB 64-bit Keras, MXNet, and others DeepStream SDK is
Nano™ NVIDIA better than Rasp pi:
2 A57 @ 1.43 GHz LPDDR4 25.6 NVIDIA's toolkit for $99.00
Developer Maxwell™ Solution : Can be used to integrate
GB/s Support Tensorflow, AI-powered video
Kit GPU WiFi adapter any environment on the
PyTorch, Caffe/Caffe2, analytics and real-time
can be used internet
Keras, MXNet, and others processing

Compatible with
TensorFlow.
(Has documentation and
Broadcom
Raspberry Pi 1GB, 2GB or courses for the RPi 4) Compatible with USB 3.0 : 2 4GB – $55 Better than jetson nano in
BCM2711, Broadcom
4 Computer 4GB Google’s Artificial USB 2 : 2 2GB – $45 terms of CPU
3 quad-core VideoCore Compatible with Coral USB
Model B LPDDR4(depe Intelligence Yourself Wifi 1GB – $35 performance but setback
Cortex-A72 (ARM VI Accelerator to further speed
nding on (AIY) kits. etho in GPU play
v8) 64-bit SoC @ up the RPi 4 machine
model)
1.5GHz learning capabilities

AM5729 - Dual Capable of running Gigabit BeagleBone AI offers a

Supports popular machine
Arm Cortex-A15 TensorFlow Lite for Ethernet, good balance between
BeagleBone PowerVR learning frameworks like
5 microprocessor 1 GB DDR3L inference. Can interface WiFi adapter $100-$125 processing power and
AI: SGX544 TensorFlow, Keras, and
subsystem, Dual with various sensors can be added flexibility. It's suitable for
Caffe.
Arm Cortex-M4 and peripherals through via USB industrial AI applications
 co-processors, 3D its GPIOs, I2C, UART, requiring real-time
graphics and SPI interfaces. processing and
accelerator interfacing with various
sensors and peripherals.
However, it might have
slightly lower GPU
performance compared to
some other options like
NVIDIA Jetson Nano.

Not be the most suitable

choice for industrial AI
Compatible with various applications due to
Gigabit
Linux distributions limited software support
Ethernet,
ASUS Rockchip RK3288 2 GB Dual including Debian and for machine learning
Mali-T764 WiFi (802.11
6 Tinker Board quad-core ARM Channel Ubuntu. Limited support for $80-$100 frameworks and
GPU b/g/n),
S Cortex-A17 CPU DDR3 machine learning potentially less robust
Bluetooth
frameworks compared to community support
4.0
other boards. compared to other
options like Raspberry Pi
or NVIDIA Jetson