ZuSE-KI-mobil Software Development Kit for AI Acceleration

AI deployment in autonomous systems demands specialized solutions meeting strict performance, energy efficiency, and cost constraints. This paper presents the ZuSE-KI-mobil Software Development Kit (SDK), a comprehensive framework for the ZuSE KI-mobil heterogeneous SoC platform. The SoC integrates dual-core Arm processors with two AI accelerators: the SPA-ML (6 TOPS) and Cadence NNA110 (4 TOPS), delivering 10 TOPS at int8 precision. The SDK enables efficient utilization and mapping through optimized runtime libraries, specialized drivers, and neural network compilers, including a custom TVM-based toolchain for SPA-ML. Four case studies demonstrate the SDK's capabilities: camera-based 3D car detection, radar object detection using PointPillars, disengagement detection, and gesture recognition. These applications showcase flexible workload mapping across heterogeneous compute units, achieving a high performance while maintaining energy efficiency. The SDK provides a complete Yocto Linux-integrated development environment, enabling rapid prototyping and deployment of AI applications in resource-constrained autonomous systems.