AI

Design tools made room for AI at this year’s DAC, as electronic design automation companies integrate the technology to automation, analyse and accelerate designs, reports Caroline Hayes. Siemens Digital Industries software tied two themes of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) together in one new product when it announced Solido Design Environment, an artificial intelligence (AI) -powered IC design and verification ...

This is an interesting one I saw on the Iridium website recently: the Mayflower Autonomous Ship is an automated, uncrewed vessel designed to sail across the Atlantic without human intervention.

Ceva has filled-out its NeuPro-M family of neural processing units, and boosted its architecture for generative AI algorithms. “NeuPro-M NPU architecture and tools have been redesigned to support transformer networks in addition to convolutional neural networks,” according to the company. “This enables applications leveraging the capabilities of generative and classic AI to be developed and run on the NeuPro-M NPU.” ...

AI chip maker Hailo has introduced a 208Top/s PCIe processor card for implementing neural networks, and an entry-level version of its Halio-8 IC. The PCIe cards, called ‘Hailo-8 Century’, execute at 400frame/s/W on the ResNet50 benchmark model, said the company, and the highest-performance version can run the same benchmark at 10,000frame/s. Versions start at 52Top/s, and video processing applications are ...

Mouser has set up a resource centre focused on AI containing articles on topics, such as Deploying Edge-Based AI Using KriaSoMs, An Edge Impulse Use-Case for Healthcare and Cancer Detection, and  An Edge Impulse Use-Case for Healthcare and Cancer Detection. The content stream grants access to free educational content, such as eBooks, blogs and articles, making it easy for designers ...

SolidRun is aiming at artificial intelligence with a fanless industrial computer that combines an octa-core AMD Ryzen 7840HS processor and three of Hailo’s Hailo-8 AI accelerators, each rated at 26Top/s. “An important feature of Hailo-8 AI accelerator and Hailo AI software suite is linear scaling of the inference performance simply by adding modules,” said Hailo product manager Dima Caplan. “SolidRun’s ...

The OECD Employment Outlook 2023 says that unions have four major concerns about AI: 1. The trustworthy use of  the technology including risks relating to privacy, transparency, security and accountability; 2. The skill demands associated with high re- and up-skilling costs for businesses and workers; 3. The physical and mental health risks e.g. through AI-based surveillance; 4. The risk of ...

Working with AMD, Renesas has created a power supply design, using radiation-tolerant ICs and GaN power devices, for an AMD space-grade ‘Versal adaptive SoC’ – the XQRVC1902, a processor with 400 AI inferencing tiles, dual Arm Cortex-A72 cores, dual Cortex-R5F cores, programmable logic and memory. “ISLVERSALDEMO2Z integrates key radiation-hardened components for power management,” said Renesas. “These ICs are designed to ...

The first public demonstration of Hummingbird, claimed to be the world’s first Optical Network-On-Chip for domain-specific AI workloads, will be at Hot Chips August 27-29 at Stanford University. Hummingbird uses vertically stacked packaging technologies to integrate a photonic chip and an electronic chip into one package serving as the communications network for data centres and other high-performance applications. “Photonics is ...

Wimbledon is using AI for commentaries this year. The AELTC has hooked up with IBM and will use the company’s Watson platform to provide commentary. The service will analyse ball tracking data and give information about the types of shot being used. The AI commentator is available on all Wimbledon’s courts and not just the usual six covered by live human ...