Hands on with the Coral USB Accelerator

Getting started with Google’s new Edge TPU hardware

I also go “Hands on with the Coral Dev Board” in a companion article.

At last year’s Google Next conference in San Francisco Google announced two new upcoming hardware products both built around Google’s Edge TPU, their purpose-built ASIC designed to run machine learning inferencing at the edge.

Both a development board and a USB Accelerator, with a form-factor along similar lines to the Intel’s Neural Compute Stick, were…