Electron E1 Processor | AI Chip for Edge Devices & Embedded Systems | Efficient Computer
When energy is no longer the tradeoff, what will you create?
Innovation demands processors that can keep up. Readily available processors are built on technology that is over 70 years old. This limits innovation.
To meet modern demands, processors must be entirely reimagined, breaking free from the constraints that have plagued computing for decades.
This spatial dataflow architecture supports general-purpose computing, without being bound by the constraints of traditional processor designs or limited by fixed-purpose accelerators.
The Electron E1 processor combines efficiency, high performance, and general-purpose programmability to unlock new use cases across many industries, including industrial automation, space and defense, critical infrastructure, and wearables.
Experience unmatched results:
- Up to 100x energy efficiency improvements over traditional low-power CPU
- Intelligent edge applications that run for years, not days
- The effcc Compiler supports high-level languages and frameworks so that developers can optimize existing applications for the Fabric processor without rewriting code
Benchmarks/data
Meet the first processor built for tomorrow
Electron E1: A new standard in energy efficiency
Removing the energy barrier for all applications.
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Features/benefits
Familiar, general-purpose software programmability
- Runs general-purpose code on Efficient’s fabric
- Support for a growing variety of valuable developer on ramps
- Available Now
- C
- Coming
- TFLite
- ONNX
- C++
- Python
- Rust
- Ultra-fast compilation times
- Exceptional developer experience and compatibility
- Compiler drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang
- Debugs drop-in replacement for GDB (coming second-half 2025)
- Integrates seamlessly with most build systems
- Available Now
Power Management
- Supply voltage: 1.8V
- Internal logic voltage: 0.55V-0.8V
- Temperature range: -40°C to 125°C
- Optimal operating point: 25°C
- Programmable power management unit
- Programmable wake-up controller
- Integrated LDO/buck power conversion
- Integrated ultra-low-power clock generation
Fast on-chip memory
- Ultra-low-power on-chip memory and storage
- 4 MB of NVM (MRAM) with DMA support
- 3 MB ultra-low-power SRAM
- 128KB (8KB/bank) of ultra-low-power cache
Low-power RISC-V scalar core
- 4 μW/MHz active mode power
- Power down mode while fabric runs
- RV32iac+zmmul support
Package
- Standard BGA package
- 8.3mm x 7.1mm
- Onboard clock generation + power conversion
Ultra-low-power flexible serial peripherals
- 6x QSPI masters for peripherals
- 6x UART with flow control for peripherals
- 6x SPI slave for host communication
- 6x I2C masters for peripheral communication
- 72x GPIO
- 1x RTC
Ultra-efficient operation via Efficient’s Fabric
High performance for the extreme edge:
- Low voltage: 5.4GOPS (50MHz system clock)
- High voltage: 21.6GOPS (200MHz system clock)
Ultra-efficient and performance modes:
- Efficiency mode
- Performance mode
- Low-power and sleep and deep-sleep modes
Efficient Computer Electron E1 powered by the Fabric architecture vs traditional SoCs
Stay updated with the latest articles
Whitepapers
- Monza: An Energy-Minimal, General-Purpose Dataflow System-on-Chip for the Internet of Things - August 5, 2024
- RipTide: A programmable, energy-minimal dataflow compiler and architecture - August 10, 2022
- Programmable, energy-minimal computer architectures - August 8, 2022
- SNAFU: An Ultra-Low-Power, Energy-Minimal CGRA-Generation Framework and Architecture - July 13, 2021
- MANIC: An Energy-Efficient Architecture for Ultra-Low-Power Embedded Systems - May 8, 2019
- Intelligence Beyond the Edge: Inference on Intermittent Embedded Systems - May 7, 2019