Lightning Talk: A Secure RISC-V Based SoC for Autonomous UAVs Navi... Davide Rossi & Daniele Palossi

Lightning Talk: A Secure RISC-V Based SoC for Autonomous UAVs Navigation - Davide Rossi, University of Bologna & Daniele Palossi, IDSIA USI-SUPSI Lugano Advanced computing platforms for autonomous drone navigation are extremely challenging drivers of Internet-of-Things edge intelligence capabilities due to the mix of requirements in terms of security, safety and high performance. We present a fully RISC-V-based SoC for high-performance and secure autonomous drone navigation. The SoC includes a dual-core CVA6 core with full support for Linux OS managing the main system functions and an RTOS such as Nuttx for time-critical tasks. The SoC is supported by a complete set of peripherals, and a parallel accelerator based on the open-source PULP platform and a root-of-trust subsystem based on the open titan project. As a capability demonstrator, we present a human pose estimation task based on a novel CNN. Inference runs in real-time, up to 135 frame/s, consuming less than 87 mW on a COTS PULP-based SoC aboard a 27-