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Using CNNs To Speed Up Systems
Just relying on faster processor clock speeds isn’t sufficient for vision processing, and the idea is spreading to other markets.

Is Design Innovation Slowing?
The answer appears to be a resounding no, but innovation isn’t necessarily happening in the same places as in the past.

IP Challenges Ahead
For the IP industry to remain healthy it has to constantly innovate, but it’s getting harder.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling observes that memory and processors are still separate, but that could change as the volume of data increases, in Rethinking Computing Fundamentals.

Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler finds it’s an exciting time to be involved in designing computer vision applications, in Computer Vision Powers Startups, Bleeding Edge Processes.

Cadence’s Vinay Patwardhan zeroes in on ways to optimize for the lowest power in a high-frequency, high-switching design, in I Say ‘High’ [Performance], You Say ‘Low’ [Power].

Rambus’ Sarvagya Kochak contends that alternatives to traditional DRAM are needed to meet the bandwidth and latency demands of the cloud, in Enabling Higher System Performance With NVDIMM-N.

Mentor’s Progyna Khondkar digs into the fundamental parts of UPF constructions, in UPF Power Domains And Boundaries.

ARM’s Kinjal Dave examines the unique system design choices needed to integrate functionally asymmetric compute elements, in System Design Considerations For Embedded Heterogeneous Multiprocessing (HMP).

Synopsys’ Pedro Ricardo Miguel explains how to overcome bandwidth limitations of MIPI DSI with visually lossless compression, in Enabling UHD Or 4K Resolution Displays Using Data Stream Compression.