tag: DSP

Using An Integrated Subsystem To Accelerate Data Fusion In Your SoC
By Rich Collins - 13 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 0

The fusion of sensor data, voice, audio and biometrics is constantly increasing the processing requirements for applications in mobile, automotive and IoT markets. Next-generation digital sensors require higher bandwidths, and more advanced voice detection and speech recognition algorithms are driving the development of progressively more complex embedded ICs. Sensor fusion to data fusion T... » read more

Age Of Acceleration
By Ed Sperling - 08 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

A shift from the fastest processors to accelerating specific functions is underway, supplanting an era of dark silicon in which one or more processor cores remain in a ready state whenever a single core's performance bogs down. In effect, the dark silicon/multi-core approach is being scrapped for many functions in favor of an accelerator-based microarchitecture that is far more granular. The... » read more

Hardware/Software Tipping Point
By Brian Bailey - 08 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

It doesn't matter if you believe [getkc id="74" comment="Moore's Law"] has ended or is just slowing down. It is becoming very clear that design in the future will be significant different than it is today. Moore's law allowed the semiconductor industry to reuse design blocks from previous designs, and these were helped along by a new technology node—even if it was a sub-optimal solution. I... » read more

The Efficiency Problem
By Samer Hijazi - 11 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Part one of this report addressed the efficiency problem in neural networks. This segment addresses efficiencies in training, quantization, and optimizing the network and the hardware. Minimize the Bits (CNN Advanced Quantization) Training a CNN involves assigning weight vectors to certain results, and applying adaptive filters to those results to determine the positives, false positives, a... » read more

The Multiplier And The Singularity
By Brian Bailey - 12 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 8

In 1993, Vernor Vinge, a computer scientist and science fiction writer, first described an event called the Singularity—the point when machine intelligence matches and then surpasses human intelligence. And since then, top scientists, engineers and futurists have been asking just how far away we are from that event. In 2006, Ray Kurzweil published a book, "The Singularity is Near," in whic... » read more

Tuning Heterogeneous SoCs
By Brian Bailey - 08 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

It's one thing to pack multiple processor cores into a design, but it is much more difficult to ensure the hardware matches the software's requirements, or that the software optimally uses the hardware. Both the hardware and software teams are now facing these issues, and there are few tools to help them fully understand the problems or to provide solutions. Design teams continue to add more... » read more

Teaching Computers To See
By Ann Mutschler - 16 Nov, 2016 - Comments: 0

Vision processing is emerging as a foundation technology for a number of high-growth applications, spurring a wave of intensive research to reduce power, improve performance, and push embedded vision into the mainstream to leverage economies of scale. What began as a relatively modest development effort has turned into an all-out race for a piece of this market, and for good reason. Mark... » read more

Heterogeneous System Challenges Grow
By Ann Mutschler - 03 Oct, 2016 - Comments: 0

As more types of processors are added into SoCs—CPUs, GPUs, DSPs and accelerators, each running a different OS—there is a growing challenge to make sure these compute elements interact properly with their neighbors. Adding to the problem is this mix of processors and accelerators varies widely between different markets and applications. In mobile there are CPUs, GPUs, video and crypto pr... » read more

Designing An Efficient DSP Solution
By Synopsys - 13 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

A look at the key challenges in DSP implementation from both hardware and software application perspectives, and how a properly selected and configured DSP processor coupled with an advanced software development toolchain can overcome these challenges. This white paper describes how to generate tight, efficient, and maintainable DSP code for a platform consisting of an IP core based on a specia... » read more

Decoding The Brain
By Brian Bailey - 22 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 1

At the Design Automation Conference this year, Lou Scheffer, principal scientist for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, gave a visionary talk entitled Learning from Life: Biologically Inspired Electronic Design. Scheffer is an IC design guy who came through Stanford and Caltech and worked for HP and [getentity id="22032" e_name="Cadence"] before switching to the medical field eight years a... » read more

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