Modalix Early Access

The Modalix Early Access DevKit is a pre-release, high-performance development platform designed for evaluating, prototyping, and deploying AI applications at the edge. As an early access unit, it provides select developers with advanced hardware acceleration and an optimized software stack tailored for a broad spectrum of inference workloads—including computer vision, large language models (LLMs), and real-time multimodal processing.

SiMa.ai Modalix Early Access Kit Interfaces

Interface

Description

Ethernet Ports (eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3)

RJ45, 10GigE network interfaces for remote connectivity.

12V Power (J8)

Requires a 12V power adapter, use the included power adapter to connect to this port.

Power On/Off Switch

Next to the power supply connector, if needed, use a pen to reach the switch and power on/off the device.

COM Port to Host

Facilitates debugging by connecting to the host system. Ensure the arrow sign on the included cable connects to the left-most pin for proper alignment.

Reset Button

Available in standalone mode only. Allows resetting the device for a fresh boot or to recover from errors.

MIPI Interfaces (X4)

For connecting cameras.

Micro SD Card Slot

For additional storage.

For more product information, visit the official website: SiMa.ai.

Feature	Details
MLA AI Performance	50 Tera Operations per Second for INT8 neural network computation. Also supports bf16 precision.
Power Consumption	8W to 12W depending on workload
Application Processing Unit (APU)	A cluster of eight Arm Cortex-A65 CPU dual threaded processors operating up to 1.5 GHz to deliver up to 32K Dhrystone MIPs Eight-core at 1.5GHz.
Video Encoder	Supports the H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC) and MJPEG compression standards. It has support for AVC main/high profiles, HEVC main profile, and MJPEG baseline profile. The encoder supports H.264/H.265 at rates up to 4KP60.
Video Decoder	supports the H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC), AV1, and MJPEG compression standards. It has support for AVC main/high profiles, HEVC main profile, AV1 main profile, and MJPEG Baseline profile. It supports 4:2:0 pixels and 8-bit precision. The decoder supports H.264/H.265 at rates up to 4KP60.
Computer Vision Unit (CVU)	Four-core Synopsys ARC EV74 video processor supporting up to 750 16-bit GOPS.
Memory	64GB LPDDR5 RAM, of which 10GB allocated to the ARM cores, 40GB allocated to the MLA, the rest are allocated by system use.
Storage	10GB internal eMMC with microSD card slot for additional storage
Networking	4X 10GigE ports.