Movidius
Introduction
This wiki contains basic information about Intel Movidius and its VPU mainly designed for deep learning inference. It contains useful information to guide user through the tools provided by Intel and where to find documentation about the chip.
Movidius is looking to enable deep learning at the edge.
Device
Myriad 2

Figure 1.Movidius - Image from Intel Movidius site
- The chip name is Intel Movidius Myriad 2 VPU and it is available as a USB 3.0 stick.
- ISP 600 Mpixels per second
- Movidius proprietary processor is called SHAVE (Streaming Hybrid Architecture Vector Engine)
Neural Compute Stick (NCS)
It also contains the Myriad 2

Figure 1.NCS - Image from Intel Movidius site
- Myriad 2 VPU is available already
Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ 2 VPU 12 Programmable SHAVE cores Low-power design for deep neural networks 6 HD camera support Configurable ISP pipeline MIPI 1.1, USB3.0, SPI, I2S, SD, 1GE 1GB RAM, 4GB free storage space
Myriad X
A new Myriad™ X will be released soon with 16 Shave cores with the following features according to Intel
16 Programmable SHAVE Cores Neural Compute Engine 8 HD camera support Configurable ISP pipeline with 4K encode MIPI 1.2, USB 3.1, Quad SPI, 2x SD, PCI-E Gen3, 10GE, I2S 16 MIPI CSI Lanes 4K @30fps or 60fps 3 pair of stereo 720p
Stages involved
- Compile: It converts a cafe network into a embedded neural network optimized for Movidius.
- Tune: Inspect Layer-by-layer performance metrics to improve the network.
- Accelerate: discrete neural network accelerator for some systems without AI capabilities.
Framework and SDK supported
- Myriad Development Kit (MDK)
- TensorFlow
- Main support through MDK
- OpenCV kernels available.
- ISP API
- Frame pool/buffer manager across pipelines.

Figure 1.MDK - Image from Intel Movidius site
Quick Start Guide
Forum
There is a forum (soon moved to Intel® Developer Zone:
https://ncsforum.movidius.com/discussions
Power consumption
- 100 Giga Flops
- 1W
Release Date and Price
- July 2017
- Price $79
Reference links
- https://www.movidius.com/news/intel-democratizes-deep-learning-application-development-with-launch-of-mov
- https://www.movidius.com/vision-processing-units
- https://www.movidius.com/myriadx
- https://www.movidius.com/solutions/software-development-kit
- https://movidius-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1532110136-MyriadXVPU_ProductBrief_final_07.18.pdf
- https://uploads.movidius.com/1463156704-2016-04-29_MDK_ProductBrief.pdf