tag: AI

Building An Efficient Inferencing Engine In A Car
By Ed Sperling - 05 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

David Fritz, who heads corporate strategic alliances at Mentor, a Siemens Business, talks about how to speed up inferencing by taking the input from sensors and quickly classifying the output, but also doing that with low power. » read more

Inferencing At The Edge
By Ed Sperling - 04 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

Geoff Tate, CEO of Flex Logix, talks about the challenges of power and performance at the edge, why this market is so important from a business and technology standpoint, and what factors need to be balanced. » read more

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto
By Jeff Dorsch - 31 May, 2019 - Comments: 0

Internet of Things Paris-based Parrot Drones and five other companies were selected by the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Army to adapt off-the-shelf commercial drones for combat applications as part of the Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance program. SRR seeks to develop unmanned aerial vehicles that have a flight time of 30 minutes, a range of three kilometers (nearly two ... » read more

How Far Can AI Go?
By Ed Sperling - 30 May, 2019 - Comments: 1

AI is everywhere. There are AI/ML chips, and AI is being used to design and manufacture chips. On the AI/ML chip side, large systems companies and startups are striving for orders of magnitude improvements in performance. To achieve that, design teams are adding in everything from CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, DSPs, as well as small FPGAs and eFPGAs. They also are using small memories that can be read i... » read more

AI Accelerator Ecosystem: An Overview
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 29 May, 2019 - Comments: 0

Companies worldwide trust the Catapult HLS Platform for designing and verifying machine learning accelerators and connecting them to systems. But, Mentor has taken a big step farther and offers an AI accelerator ecosystem that provides AI designers with an environment to jumpstart their projects. Based on years of working with designers, this ecosystem provides resources from IP libraries to fu... » read more

System Bits: May 28
By Jeff Dorsch - 28 May, 2019 - Comments: 0

Home robotics get cozier Cornell University’s Guy Hoffman was perplexed when he first saw social robots in stores. “I noticed a lot of them had a very similar kind of feature – white and plasticky, designed like consumer electronic devices,” said Hoffman, assistant professor and the Mills Family Faculty Fellow in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. “Especial... » read more

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto
By Jeff Dorsch - 24 May, 2019 - Comments: 0

Internet of Things The Wing unit of Alphabet this summer will begin making drone deliveries in the Vuosarri district of Helsinki, Finland. The unmanned aerial vehicles will bear food and other items from Herkku Food, a gourmet market, and the Café Monami restaurant. The drones will bear deliveries of up to 3.3 pounds over distances of up to 6.2 miles. Comcast is reportedly developing an in... » read more

Controlling Variability And Cost At 3nm And Beyond
By Ed Sperling - 22 May, 2019 - Comments: 1

Richard Gottscho, executive vice president and CTO of Lam Research, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about how to utilize more data from sensors in manufacturing equipment, the migration to new process nodes, and advancements in ALE and materials that could have a big impact on controlling costs. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: As more sensors are added int... » read more

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto
By Jeff Dorsch - 17 May, 2019 - Comments: 0

Internet of Things Verizon Communications launched its nationwide narrowband Internet of Things network, saying it covers more than 92% of the U.S. population. “There is a whole universe of smart solutions needing scalable and affordable connections,” Jeffrey Dietel, senior vice president of business marketing and products, said in a statement. “By launching our NB-IoT network, Verizon i... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: May 14
By Mark LaPedus - 14 May, 2019 - Comments: 0

Radiation thermometers The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a thermometer that can measure radiation within a few thousandths of a degree Celsius. The so-called Ambient-Radiation Thermometer (ART) from NIST is a new type of radiation thermometer, which measures infrared radiation (IR) given off by objects without touching them. Measuring 60 centimeters ... » read more

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