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neuralSPOT SDK for Edge AI Development

Edge AI Made Easy

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neuralSPOT®; is an open-source, real-time, OS-agnostic SDK for Ambiq’s Apollo SoCs, designed to simplify edge AI development on ultra-low-power devices. With integrated support for TFLM, heliaRT™, and heliaAOT™, neuralSPOT enables developers to build, optimize, and deploy high-performance AI applications faster across wearables, healthcare devices, smart home products, and industrial IoT systems.







Key Features of neuralSPOT SDK

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Accessible Edge AI Tools

Open source, OS-agnostic, and real-time AI development toolkit built to streamline AI development with Ambiq’s range of ultra-low power SoCs.

02

Customizable AI Workflows

Everything the developer needs to develop, modify, train, and deploy sophisticated features on the Apollo family of SoCs.

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AI Model Profiling and Optimization

Deploy, Fine Tune, and Profile AI models on all Ambiq development boards.

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Rapid AI Prototyping

neuralSPOT streamlines AI features with simple app code, straightforward device I/O, and plug-and-play PC integration.

Bridging the Edge AI Divide

Bridging the Edge AI Divide
neuralSPOT SDK

neuralSPOT SDK

Edge AI Application Prototyping Library Simplifies the embedded development Frees AI Developers to focus on AI

neuralSPOT Autodeploy

neuralSPOT Autodeploy

Easy AI-to-firmware conversion Sophisticated Profiler and Validator Zero friction AI experimentation

Optimized AI Runtimes

Optimized AI Runtimes

neuralSPOT makes choosing a runtime easy by seamlessly integrating LiteRT, heliaRT and heliaAOT

Development Kits for neuralSPOT

heartKIT

  • Detect heart statistics and conditions based on ECG sensor readings
  • Heart Rate, HRV, Afib detection
  • More added regularly

physioKIT

  • Optical-sensor based health statistics
  • SPO2, Heart Rate, Afib, cuff-less blood pressure monitoring

sleepKIT

  • Real-time: Inference is performed in real-time on battery-powered, edge devices
  • Efficient: Leverage modern AI techniques coupled with Ambiq’s ultra-low power SoCs
  • Extensible: Easily add new tasks, models, and datasets to the framework
  • Accurate: Achieve SoTA results with stringent resource constraints

Keyword Spotting

  • Detect pre-programmed phrase (e.g. “OK computer”)

Speech-to-Intent

  • Detects intent in spoken phrases
  • An intent is an action performed on an object
  • “Turn on lights in kitchen”
  • Phrase can be spoken in many forms

Speech Enhancement

  • Eliminates background noise such as leaf-blowers, music, and restaurant noise from speech
  • Can be used to increase intelligibility and improve speech recognition accuracy

Speaker ID

  • Identifies speech belonging to a specific individual
  • Supports multiple individuals
  • Can be trained on new individuals on-device

Design Resources

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

  • neuralSPOT® is Ambiq’s open-source AI SDK for developing, training, optimizing, and deploying edge AI applications on Apollo® ultra-low-power SoCs. The OS-agnostic framework provides reusable application code, hardware abstraction, device I/O, AI model integration, and plug-and-play PC tools that simplify embedded AI development from prototyping through production. 

  • neuralSPOT® supports Ambiq Apollo generations 3 through 5, including Apollo3, Apollo4, and Apollo510 series SoCs. Support is continuously expanded to future Apollo generations as new devices are introduced. 

  • neuralSPOT® provides first-class support for TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers (TFLM), heliaRT™, and heliaAOT™, allowing developers to choose the AI inference runtime that best matches their model size, performance, latency, memory footprint, and deployment requirements. 

  • neuralSPOT® powers several application-focused AI development kits, including: 

    • heartKIT™ for ECG-based heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), and atrial fibrillation (AFib) detection.  
    • physioKIT™ for optical-sensor-based SpO₂, heart rate, AFib detection, and cuffless blood pressure estimation.  
    • sleepKIT™ for real-time, on-device sleep monitoring and sleep-stage analysis.  
    These reference applications help developers accelerate AI development for digital health and wearable devices. 

  • neuralSPOT® includes ready-to-use AI pipelines for keyword spotting, speech-to-intent, speech enhancement, and speaker identification. These capabilities enable battery-powered devices to perform voice processing locally, reducing latency, improving privacy, and minimizing cloud dependence. 

  • Yes. neuralSPOT® is a fully open-source, OS-agnostic SDK that developers can inspect, modify, and extend. It is designed for real-time edge AI on ultra-low-power embedded systems and supports customization for production applications. 

  • No. neuralSPOT® runs on supported Ambiq Apollo SoCs and development boards. Developers can prototype, profile, optimize, and deploy AI models directly on Ambiq hardware using plug-and-play PC integration and the included development tools. 

  • Yes. neuralSPOT® is designed for on-device AI inference, allowing machine learning models to execute directly on Ambiq Apollo SoCs without requiring cloud connectivity. Running AI at the edge reduces latency, improves privacy, lowers power consumption, and enables reliable operation even when internet access is unavailable. 

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