John Swanson

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John Swanson is the product line manager for the DesignWare Ethernet family of IP cores and portfolio of datapath IP at Synopsys. He has been working on system-on-a-chip technologies and methodologies for more than 25 years with Synopsys in a variety of assignments.

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Implementing Mathematical Algorithms In Hardware For Artificial Intelligence

By John Swanson - 25 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

Petabytes of data efficiently travels between edge devices and data centers for processing and computing of AI functions. Accurate and optimized hardware implementations of functions offload many operations that the processing unit would have to execute. As the mathematical algorithms used in AI-based systems evolve, and in some cases stabilize, the demand to implement them in hardware increase... » read more

Enabling Ethernet Time-Sensitive Networking With Automotive-Certified IP

By John Swanson - 18 Jun, 2018 - Comments: 0

Automotive systems are becoming more sophisticated as they combine ADAS applications from emergency braking, collision avoidance, lane departure warning to fully autonomous driving, making predictable latency and guaranteed bandwidth in the automotive network critical. These applications require a high volume of data from different parts of the car for processing and decision making. Due to the... » read more