Alif Semiconductor's secure 32-bit microcontrollers with AI/ML (artificial intelligence and machine learning) capabilities are transforming the way product developers design and develop products.

The goal of Alif Semiconductor's founding was to meet the market's explosive need for 32-bit microcontrollers that are truly power-efficient, secure, and scalable with artificial intelligence. Due to this necessity, Alif Semiconductor developed a brand-new class of embedded microcontrollers known as fusion processors. These processors unlock cutting-edge low-power techniques, unparalleled functional integration, high security, and operating system diversity, enabling seamless integration of technology for daily life.

Leading the industry in supply of next-generation 32-bit AI/ML arm-based microcontrollers and fusion processors is Alif Semiconductor's Ensemble family. The only option available for battery-operated IoT devices that require power-efficient microcontrollers that can manage demanding AI and ML workloads is Alif Ensemble. Their innovative functional integration helps write the software once, then reuse it across all of the designs — no matter how sophisticated or low-end the application — without requiring add-ons.

Never-before-seen scalability

With up to two Cortex-M55 MCU cores and up to two Cortex-A32 microprocessor cores that can run high-level operating systems, and up to two Ethos-U55 microNPUs for accelerating artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Ensemble family of Arm-based microcontrollers scales from single-core to a new class of multi-core devices.

All of the device's signals are brought to easily accessible pins for power and performance evaluation, prototyping, and other uses with the affordable, single-board Ensemble DevKit. It includes the Ensemble lineup's superset E7 device, which lets companies to test every facet of the device's performance.

Solutions with Alif Ensemble microcontrollers

E1 Series

Get a single real-time core for imaging, AI/ML, security, and other features.

The E1 series is smaller than most, measuring only a few millimeters on each side, but it's more than that. A potent MCU core, an optional dedicated microNPU for speeding up machine learning workloads, multiple microphone and audio inputs, the newest sensor interfaces, a dual-lane MIPI display interface, and the lowest power consumption of any comparable microcontroller on the market are all found inside the E1 series of microcontrollers.

The E1 is the ideal option for the upcoming wearable designs due to its incredible performance in a small package, integrated graphics for rich user interfaces, extended battery life, and class-leading security to protect sensitive personal data.

E3 Series

When needed, a dual real-time core boosts performance. To enhance real-time processing capacity, the E3 series adds a second microNPU, building on the high-efficiency basis of the E1 series. With the least amount of power usage, the high-efficiency core manages always-on functions. The high-performance core keeps the battery running for years without requiring replacements by waking up rapidly, finishing tasks quickly, and going back to sleep when performance is required.

An Ensemble E3-equipped security camera dramatically lowers false positive activations, saving energy, money on the system, and battery size. With features like advanced object and event categorization, human detection, gesture detection, OCR, and more, E3 elevates security cameras to new heights.

E5 Series

Acquire an application core with two real-time cores that can run on Linux. The E5 family of fusion processors uses shared peripherals and memories between both domains to combine a high-performance, high-efficiency Cortex-A32 application core (with a maximum frequency of 800 MHz) with a high-level operating system such as Linux in a single package.

Given that the E5 series has the capability required to power networking and sophisticated graphics on vital medical equipment, it is a perfect fit for medical devices. The security subsystem's versatile configuration matrix functionality allows companies to specify precisely which areas of the application may access private information, including patient records.

E7 Series

Achieve optimal performance with two applications and two real-time cores.

Fusion processors from the E7 family are a real performance powerhouse. By incorporating two Cortex-A32 cores configured for symmetric operation at 800 MHz and the high-efficiency and high-performance Cortex-M55 cores, it expands the application processing capabilities over the preceding series. The most demanding control use-cases on the edge may be handled by this series thanks to its sufficient computation performance.

E7 uses techniques like combining high-level operating systems, like Linux, for user interfaces in parallel with real-time cores for control activities that can greatly reduce the design cycle on complex devices, like vending machines.

The future of intelligent machines

Syed Ali is the CEO and co-founder of Alif Semiconductors.

“We enable scalable 32-bit microcontroller solutions that can support applications across a wide spectrum of use cases.”