MAVERIC: A 16nm 72 FPS, 10 mJ/Frame Heterogeneous Robotics SoC with 4 Cores and 13 INT8/FP32 Accelerators

Abstract

MAVERIC is a 4 core, 13 INT8/FP32 accelerator unit (AU) 16mm<sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> SoC in Intel 16, for ML and robotics applications. 3D reconstruction (3DRecon) robotics application combines depth estimation (DE) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for perception tasks, posing compute demand, accelerator integration, and scheduling challenges. MAVERIC operates at up to 1 GHz and achieves 8 TOPS/W peak energy efficiency (Eeff). It supports loop closure (LC) and delivers 10 mJ/frame and 72 FPS at the end-to-end DE and SLAM.