FPGA / PLD

An edge inference accelerator developed by Flexlogix has a 4k MAC dynamic tensor processor array and is optimised for Mpixel image processing models in medical, surveillance and IoT applications. The InferX X1 edge inference accelerator is designed for processing real-time Mpixel vision workloads which requires high bandwidth support for deep learning models which operate with small batch sizes in real ...

At DAC, French embedded FPGA (eFPGA) supplier, Menta, introduced what it claims is the first eFPGA soft IP. It  enables designers to perform closure directly at the top level. This is significant for AI, as well as space and defence projects, which rely on low latency, explained Yoan Dupret, Menta’s managing director and CEO.   Since 2013, Menta’s technology has ...

Following its created in April this year, the Open Source FPGA Foundation was at DAC (Design Automation Conference) to advocate for innovation with open source tools and wrestle control from what has been a largely unchanged FPGA space for 30 years. The fledging non-profit foundation has over 20 members from academia and more than 1,000 individual members worldwide, said CEO, ...

Digi-Key Electronics has partnered with Make – the publishers behind the maker magazines and books – to release an augmented reality (AR) app to accompany its 2021 Boards Guide. Divided into sections for microcontroller (MCU), single-board controller (SBC) and field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based boards, the guide helps students, makers and professional engineers navigate the latest technology for their possible ...

Digi-Key Electronics and the FPGA and embedded FPGA IP company QuickLogic are partnering to sell IoT and AI technology through the DigiKey Marketplace. Specifically, the agreement covers QuickLogic’s low power, multi-core MCU, FPGAs and embedded FPGAs, voice and sensor processing products. For example, included are the EOS S3 MCU Sensor Processing Platform, EOS S3-AI, EOS S3 Voice + Sensor Hub, ...

Claiming to be able to reduce design compile times by a factor of five, Xilinx has launched the Vivado ML Editions tool suite. The latest addition to the company’s Vivado tool suite is believed to be the first FPGA EDA tool suite based on machine learning (ML) optimisation algorithms. In addition to faster compile times, it is claimed to deliver ...

Siemens Digital Industries Software has bought the proFPGA desktop prototyping technologies product suite from Pro Design Electronic. proFPGA technology is already part of Siemens’ Xcelerstor portfolio as part of its EDA IC verification products. Bringing the proFPGA technology and team in-house can allow Siemens to more fully integrate and optimize the scalable, high-performance prototyping platform for lab and desktop environments ...

Support for multi-threading acceleration for CPUs with multiple physical cores is provided by the CacheQ Compiler which takes a single-threaded C code and generates executable that can run on CPUs, accelerating executing by 486% on x86 processors with 12 cores, reports CacheQ Systems (based on benchmarks from the Black Scholes financial algorithm). There is no need for manual code rewriting, threading ...

SBC development kits available from Farnell now include the OrangeCrab r0.2 open-source FPGA development board from Good Stuff Department, the company responsible for open-source hardware, including the ArticKoala and ButterStick boards. This latest SBC is a xlim, compact Adafruit Feather form factor, measuring 22.86mm x 50.8mm. Despite its size, says the company, it can be used as to prototype custom SoC designs. It ...

Adaptive system on modules (SOMs) make up the Kria family, developed by Xilinx for AI applications at the edge. The range consists of production-ready embedded boards and developer kit. The small form factor embedded boards are available with a software stack for adaptive computing. The first product released is the Kria K26 SOM, which has been designed specifically for vision ...