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Image GenerationOpen-Source AIr/MachineLearningPublished: Aug 19, 2026, 10:01 JST

Engineer trains image AI on microcontroller with 264KB of RAM

Engineer trains image AI on microcontroller with 264KB of RAM

A developer trained a diffusion model (a type of image generation AI) on a Shrike lite microcontroller with only 264KB of SRAM, generating 32×32 pixel images. The device includes an onboard FPGA (a reconfigurable chip), which the developer used to build two parallel INT8 MAC engines with 16-bit accumulation to accelerate calculations.

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