Mike Fingeroff

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Mike Fingeroff is the HLS Technologist at Mentor, a Siemens Business, and the author of High-Level Synthesis Blue Book. Prior to working for Mentor, he worked as a hardware design engineer developing real-time broadband video systems. Fingeroff received both his bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering from Temple University in 1990 and 1995 respectively.

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Optimizing Power And Performance For Machine Learning At The Edge

By Mike Fingeroff - 12 Dec, 2019 - Comments: 0

While machine learning (ML) algorithms are popular for running on enterprise Cloud systems for training neural networks, AI/ML chipsets for edge devices are growing at a triple digit rate, according to Tractica “Deep Learning Chipsets” (Figure 1). Edge devices include automobiles, drones, and mobile devices that are all employing AI/ML to provide valuable functionality. Figure 1: Marke... » read more

Synthesizing Computer Vision Designs To Hardware

By Mike Fingeroff - 26 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 0

Computer vision is one of the hottest markets in electronic design today. Digital processing of images and video with complex algorithms in order to interpret meaning has almost as many applications and markets as there are uses for the human eye. The biggest problem that designers face is that the computer vision system requirements and algorithms change quickly and often. Even the targ... » read more