Coralboard features Synaptics Astra SL2619 Edge AI SoC, supports Google Gemma 3 inference - CNX Software

Synaptics Coralboard is a development board powered by a Synaptics Astra SL2619 Edge AI SoC with a 1 TOPS Synaptics Torq inference engine implementing a Google Coral NPU, and supporting hardware-accelerated Google Gemma 3 lightweight models.The board features 2GB of RAM and offers MIPI camera and display interfaces, a microSD card slot, a USB Type-A port, microphone inputs (I2S), mikroBUS and Qwiic- expansion connectors, and optional Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity through an M.2 expansion slot.Synaptics Coralboard specifications:

System-on-module – Grinn AstraSOM-261x

SoC – Synaptics Astra SL2619 SoC with 2x Cortex-A55 cores @ 2GHz, 1x Cortex-M52 core @ 200MHz, and 1 TOPS Synaptics Torq (Google Coral NPU)

System Memory – 2GB DDR4 @ 3200Mbps (optionally 1GB)

Storage – 16GB flash, up to 64GB