BrainChip and Neuromorphyx Partner to Deliver the BrainBoard1500 Evaluation Board for Robotics, Space, Defense, Automotive, and Industrial Applications
August 25, 2026
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BrainChip Holdings Ltd. released information it has entered a partnership with Neuromorphyx. The result is the BrainBoard1500, a compact developer and evaluation board designed and manufactured by Neuromorphyx around BrainChip’s AKD1500 neural-network accelerator.
“Partnering with Neuromorphyx puts the AKD1500 in the hands of developers and makers in a form factor and software ecosystem they already know,” said BrainChip CEO Sean Hehir. “BrainBoard1500 is exactly the kind of partner-led product that extends Akida’s reach into developer communities and opens the door to broader adoption across education, industrial and embedded AI.”
BrainBoard1500 Offers:
- Arduino Nicla-form-factor and direct connector compatibility
- Open-source Arduino Nicla library and drivers
- Direct SPI/QSPI path for running spiking neural network models on sensor data, with I2C system control as well as onboard model flash
- A two-channel current monitor supporting real-time power profiling of AKD1500 inference workloads and evaluation of sleep/wake configurations
The BrainBoard1500 delivers a direct embedded interface required to assess the AKD1500 under the power, latency, size, and system constraints of compact edge devices. The out-of-the-box software is supported through the Neuromorphyx Arduino library and drivers.
BrainBoard1500’s standard SPI/QSPI architecture provides an open-source path for software adaptation ports to generally used sensor and MCU hardware ecosystems including Raspberry Pi, Seeed Studio/XIAO, OpenMV, Espressif, DFRobot, Adafruit, SparkFun, STMicroelectronics, amongst others, as well as custom MCU and FPGA hosts.
Hardware architecture for the BrainBoard1500 was built by Neuromorphyx along with electronics, PCB manufacturing design, and Arduino-oriented software path. This also includes the board library, drivers, and Akida Engine integration.
Along with supplying the AKD1500 chips and technical enablement packages, BrainChip will support customer-ready AI model repositories targeting keyword spotting, visual wake words, and human activity recognition.
According to the press release, BrainBoard1500 will initially be available through the Neuromorphyx store as well as BrainBoard1500 Standalone AKD1500 Co-Processor Board and its open-source Arduino software repository, datasheet, and supporting documentation.
“Neuromorphyx develops complete neuromorphic vision products for demanding robotics, space, defense, automotive and industrial applications,” said Neuromorphyx CEO Ivan Projić. “BrainBoard1500 extends that work by making the AKD1500 easier to combine with existing Arduino Nicla boards and software, where customers can run, measure and refine SNN models on the BrainChip AKD1500 device, which is also integrated into our full NeuroReflex stack for event-based sensing, FPGA preprocessing, and neuromorphic inference.”
For more information, visit BrainChip and Neuromorphyx.
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