Artificial intelligence accelerators — single-board mini-computers — may appear in Russian drones. One of these mini-computers was developed in the Crimean laboratory "FabLab" of V.I. Vernadsky KFU: "Grape Pi 1" is only 40x40 mm in size.
The mini-board features a 4-core H616 processor running at 1.5 GHz. The computer has 1 GB of RAM, a slot for an SSD card, three pads with USB 2.0, HDMI and video-out connectors.
Today, there are solutions on the market for a wide range of applications that are inconvenient for use on board unmanned vehicles and leave some of the processor's capabilities unrealized. For example, not all CSI interface channels are brought out to connectors for connecting cameras, but there are DSI connectors (connectors for displays), which are usually not used in unmanned vehicles. We have developed our own version of a single-board computer that has all the interfaces we need, while containing nothing superfluous, which significantly reduces not only its size but also its cost.
The "Grape Pi" family will be expanded. In new versions, the developers plan to remove the HDMI connector, reduce the board to 30x30 mm and add contact pads for SPI and I2C interfaces.
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