Synaptics Incorporated and Google Research will showcase Edge AI use cases on the Synaptics Coralboard at Google I/O 2026. The Coralboard is a development platform designed to support developers moving from prototyping to real-world Edge AI product development. It is powered by the Synaptics Astra SL2610 product line, featuring the Synaptics Torq NPU and Coral NPU technology from Google Research. The board provides an open, standards-based platform for multimodal on-device AI experiences.
The platform is built for always-on, power-efficient Edge AI applications. It uses a 2GHz Synaptics Astra SL2619 dual-core SoC with 2GB DDR4 DRAM and a 1 TOPS NPU subsystem capable of CNN and transformer models. Interfaces include CSI camera input, DSI display connectivity, RGB LEDs, microphones, and a buzzer. Optional add-ons provide M.2 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, SD card, USB, and mikroBUS/Qwiic sensor support.
At Google I/O 2026, Synaptics and Google will present “Jellectronica,” an AI-powered music experience. An NPU-accelerated YOLOv8 object detection model on the Coralboard processes live jellyfish movement from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, generating control signals for a generative music performance using Google DeepMind’s Lyria Realtime model.
Attendees at Google I/O can participate in an on-site experience and receive a Coralboard. The board includes an out-of-box developer experience with built-in support for hardware-accelerated Gemma 3 270M and the open-source MLIR-based Synaptics Torq toolchain. This enables building, optimizing, deploying, and iterating on vision, audio, and generative AI workloads.
The Coralboard will be showcased as a limited edition at the Gemma pavilion during Google I/O 2026.
"Edge AI is evolving as a frontier for innovation. Coralboard gives developers a powerful new way to turn breakthrough AI into real-world experiences at the Edge,” said Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research.
“We are very excited to put the Synaptics Coralboard directly into developers’ hands at Google I/O,” said Billy Rutledge, Director, Google Research.
“Gemma helps developers bring capable generative AI to smaller, efficient devices. With the Coralboard, developers can quickly test, tune, and deploy Gemma-based experiences for real-world Edge AI use cases,” said Olivier Lacombe, Product Director, Google DeepMind.
“We’re at a tipping point where AI is moving out of the cloud and into everyday devices,” said Vikram Gupta, SVP & GM, Edge Compute & Connectivity Solutions Division, Synaptics.
“We designed this platform to remove friction for developers. It is compact, feature-rich, and easy to extend,” said Robert Otreba, CEO, Grinn Global.
