Arm’s project Trillium

Too little too late, or the foreshadowing of history? Arm took advantage of the post-CES news lull to announce, “Project Trillium,” a suite of software tools for neural network inferencing at the edge, along with new hardware IP for deep neural network (DNN) acceleration that is scheduled to be available for licensing in late 2018. The key software element of the suite is the Arm NN Software, intended to be used alongside the existing Arm Compute library and the CMSIS-NN Neural Network kernels. Arm describes the software as providing a bridge between popular NN training frameworks and the Arm-based inferencing