Semiconductor Engineering

Deep Learning Hardware: FPGA vs. GPU

FPGAs or GPUs, that is the question. Since the popularity of using machine learning algorithms to extract and process the information from raw data, it has been a race between FPGA and GPU vendors to ...
The Next Platform

Microsoft Extends FPGA Reach From Bing To Deep Learning

After three years of research into how it might accelerate its Bing search engine using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Microsoft came up with a scheme that would let it lash Stratix V devices ...
The Next Platform

FPGA Maker Snaps Up Deep Learning Chip Startup

FPGA maker Xilinx has acquired Chinese deep learning chip startup DeePhi Tech for an undisclosed sum. The Next Platform has been watching DeePhi closely over the last few years as it appeared to be ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Applying Machine Learning to EDA, FPGA Design Automation Tools

A technical paper titled “Application of Machine Learning in FPGA EDA Tool Development” was published by researchers at the University of Texas Dallas. “With the recent advances in hardware ...
ZDNet

AI chips for big data and machine learning: Hard choices in the cloud and on-premise

Applications and infrastructure evolve in lock-step. That point has been amply made, and since this is the AI regeneration era, infrastructure is both enabling AI applications to make sense of the ...
EDN

A Breakthrough in FPGA-Based Deep Learning Inference

Mipsology’s Zebra Deep Learning inference engine is designed to be fast, painless, and adaptable, outclassing CPU, GPU, and ASIC competitors. I recently attended the 2018 Xilinx Development Forum (XDF ...
Electronic Design

Embedded FPGA Optimized for Machine Learning and Communication

Achronix’s Speedcore Gen 4 can be tailored for machine-learning applications as well as to deliver high-performance FPGA connectivity for embedded FPGAs. 1. Processor performance is starting to level ...
EDN

FPGA learning made easy with a virtual university program

Altera University aims to affordably and easily introduce students to the world of FPGAs and digital logic programming tools by unveiling the curriculum, tutorials, and lab exercises that bridge the ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Highways Speed Machine Learning and Communication

Today’s high-speed FPGAs have a passing similarity to their older counterparts. However, large arrays of identical lookup tables (LUTs) and interconnect fabrics have given way to high-speed, ...
Hackaday

An RF Engineer’s FPGA Learning Journey

[KF5N] admits he’s not a digital design engineer; he’s more into the analog RF side of things. But he’s recently taken on a project to communicate between a Ubuntu box and an Intel MAX10 FPGA. He did ...