{"slug": "vitis-ai-ml-on-sundance-vcs3-with-prophesee-event-camera", "title": "Vitis AI-ML on Sundance VCS3 with Prophesee Event Camera", "summary": "LogicTronix and Sundance have developed a real-time event-based vision application on the Sundance VCS3 MPSoC platform, integrating a Prophesee IMX636 event sensor and a Vitis AI machine learning model. The compact system demonstrates low-latency, power-efficient edge AI inference with fewer than 400k parameters, enabling object detection and tracking without high-end hardware. The application is available for evaluation through LogicTronix and Sundance.", "body_md": "The VCS3 is one of the smallest form-factor MPSoC platforms available on the market. Its compact size and low power consumption make it an ideal platform for edge AI applications. Powered by the XCZU3EG MPSoC, the VCS3 delivers a low-latency, power-efficient processing pipeline suitable for real-time AI workloads.\n\nThis article demonstrates how to create an FPGA design for the Sundance VCS3 MPSoC development kit, integrating the Prophesee IMX636 event-based vision sensor (aka, Neuromorphic or DVS sensor) and deploying a machine learning model to process event-based data in real time.\n\nProphesee event based vision sensor are neuromorphic sensor or dynamic vision sensor (DVS).\n\nWe are using 2022.2 tool version, VIVADO and Petalinux for this application development.\n\nQuick Overview of this ApplicationThe VIVADO pipeline consists of IMX636 MIPI Pipeline for Prophesee event sensor data acquisition, DPU hierarchy for ML inference and Display Pipeline for showing results of EventML at VCS3 3D kit.\n\nWe are using Vitis AI 3.0 and DPU B512 variant for ML inference. With these IP blocks in the design, following is the resource usage by the complete pipelines.\n\nWe developed the petalinux project and build artifacts for the VCS3 kit based on the template provided by Sundance. VCS3 has three major approach of booting Linux, i.e. JTAG, QSPI and eMMC.\n\nWe are booting BOOT.BIN, [boot.scr](http://boot.scr) and [image.ub](http://image.ub) at one partition of eMMC and Rootfs at 2nd partition.\n\nTo acquire the Prophesee IMX636 event based sensor data, we have to use the metavision SDK (openEB core) on the Petalinux image. And the camera access, some of data handling is happening at Metavision SDK.\n\nThe same app including metavision SDK runs the DPU based ML inference and displaying the result on the display-monitor which came along with VCS3 3D kit.\n\nQuick demo:The machine learning model demonstrated above processes event-based data captured by the sensor in real time. With fewer than 400k parameters, the model is highly optimized for edge AI inference, enabling low-latency and power-efficient execution on the compact Sundance VCS3 MPSoC platform. This demonstrates that even a small form-factor MPSoC can effectively run real-time event-based vision applications without requiring high-end computing hardware.\n\nKudos to the LogicTronix FPGA, Embedded, and Machine Learning team for their dedication and expertise in developing this application. Special thanks to the Sundance team for their continuous support and collaboration throughout the project.\n\nIf you are interested in evaluating this application, please contact Sundance or LogicTronix. For inquiries, reach out to ** info@logictronix.com** to discuss evaluation options, technical details, or collaboration opportunities.\n\nLike to know more?Check this Event based ML Application from AMD-Xilinx Appstore -[https://www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/kria-apps/object-detection-and-tracking.html]\n\n**LogicTronix is AMD-Xilinx Partner for FPGA Design and AI/ML Acceleration.**\n\n**LogicTronix** is demonstrating some of the sensor fusion and Edge AI solution at AMD ECS event at Tokyo and Bangalore, August 2026.\n\n[Read more](javascript:void(0))", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vitis-ai-ml-on-sundance-vcs3-with-prophesee-event-camera", "canonical_source": "https://www.hackster.io/LogicTronix/vitis-ai-ml-on-sundance-vcs3-with-prophesee-event-camera-155b84", "published_at": "2026-06-28 08:38:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-28 09:06:26.062929+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "computer-vision", "ai-chips", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["LogicTronix", "Sundance", "Prophesee", "AMD", "Xilinx", "Vitis AI", "IMX636", "VCS3"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vitis-ai-ml-on-sundance-vcs3-with-prophesee-event-camera", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vitis-ai-ml-on-sundance-vcs3-with-prophesee-event-camera.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vitis-ai-ml-on-sundance-vcs3-with-prophesee-event-camera.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vitis-ai-ml-on-sundance-vcs3-with-prophesee-event-camera.jsonld"}}