UP Core Plus SBC launches with Cyclone 10 and Myriad 2 AI add-ons

Aaeon has launched an "UP AI Edge" family of products that builds on a new Apollo Lake based "UP Core Plus" SBC with stacking AI companion boards based on the Movidius Myriad 2 or Intel Cyclone 10GX plus add-ons including a quad-GbE board and a camera. Aaeon Europe quickly met its modest $11K Kickstarter goal for the new UP AI Edge ecosystem, which builds on its UP board products and community. The centerpiece is a new UP Core Plus SBC, although the official, Ubuntu-equipped UP AI Edge development package uses the larger, more feature-rich UP Squared SBC. The Ubuntu stack also includes Intel's OpenVINO computer vision toolkit, which is optimized for the Myriad 2. Also available is the Arduino Create development environent, an Open CL/ Movidius Driver, Intel System Studio, and cloud connectors for Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and IBM Bluemix. You can also use the Neural Compute Stick SDK available for the Myriad 2 equipped Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick for "rapid prototyping, validation and deployment of Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference applications at the edge," says Aaeon.