Ottawa startup Blumind launches BM110 kit for ultra-low-power analog AI

Ottawa chip startup Blumind on Monday (November 9) announced the BM110 Evaluation Kit, a complete hardware and software platform that lets developers measure the accuracy and power of its AMPL analog compute technology for always-on audio and sensor inference. The kit is available now to qualified customers, and Blumind will showcase it at electronica 2026 in Munich, November 10–13, at Hall B5-560. (Image: the BM110 evaluation board, from patent filings.)

What's in the kit: board, SDK and reference models

The kit ships with Blumind's BM110 silicon configured as a reference always-on audio board, with an analog microphone and integrated signal-processing front end, battery management and a series sense resistor so always-on system current can be measured on board in real time, a software development kit with a hardware abstraction layer and a model import flow for networks trained in standard cloud and server frameworks, and pre-loaded reference models for voice activity detection and keyword spotting. A BM110 datasheet and the AMPL Technology Validation Report are included.

Analog compute: neural core runs below 3 microwatts

Blumind computes in the analog domain, storing neural network weights directly in the BM110 fabric instead of shuttling them between memory and a digital multiply-accumulate array. The company says cutting that data movement — the dominant energy cost in digital inference — lets the BM110 neural network compute core run continuously at sub-3 microwatts, with total always-on power including the microphone of about 50 microwatts. The technology targets smart glasses, smartwatches, rings and other wearable and mobile devices that need all-day, always-on AI.

Aimed at always-on “Physical AI”

“The BM110 kit lets developers measure analog AI accuracy and power on their own bench, running real models in real time. That's the foundation the rest of our AMPL roadmap is built on,” said Niraj Mathur, Blumind's CEO and co-founder. The company is headquartered in Ontario, Canada, with operations in California. Kits are supplied to qualified customers with the technology validation report, datasheet and direct applications engineering support through model bring-up.