A Next-Generation Prototyping System for ASIC and Pre-Silicon Software Development

A Next-Generation Prototyping System for ASIC and Pre-Silicon Software Development
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-05-2021 at 6:00 am

Corigine Prototyping Systems

Every now and then, disruptive technology is brought to market, challenging the way things have been done to that point. We are all familiar with many such technologies. The rhetorical question is, how many of us were aware, recognized and acknowledged those technologies before they became well established? For example, a startup… Read More


High-Performance Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Constrained Embedded Systems

High-Performance Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Constrained Embedded Systems
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-30-2021 at 6:00 am

Demonstrator Block Diagram

Current technology news is filled with talk of many edge applications moving processing from the cloud to the edge. One of the presentations at the recently concluded Linley Group Fall Processor Conference was about AI moving from the cloud to the edge. Rightly so, there were several sessions dedicated to discussing AI and edge… Read More


PCIe Gen5 Interface Demo Running on a Speedster7t FPGA

PCIe Gen5 Interface Demo Running on a Speedster7t FPGA
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-24-2021 at 10:00 am

PCIe Gen5 Interface Demo Board

The major market drivers of today all have one thing in common and that is the efficient management of data. Whether it is 5G, hyperscale computing, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles or IoT, there is data creation, processing, transmission and storage. All of these aspects of data management need to happen very fast.… Read More


A Flexible and Efficient Edge-AI Solution Using InferX X1 and InferX SDK

A Flexible and Efficient Edge-AI Solution Using InferX X1 and InferX SDK
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-18-2021 at 6:00 am

15 Transformer vs Traditional CNN 2

The Linley Group held its Fall Processor Conference 2021 last week. There were several informative talks from various companies updating the audience on the latest research and development work happening in the industry. The presentations were categorized as per their focus, under eight different sessions. The sessions topics… Read More


A MIPI CSI-2/MIPI D-PHY Solution for AI Edge Devices

A MIPI CSI-2/MIPI D-PHY Solution for AI Edge Devices
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-15-2021 at 6:00 am

Tradeoffs Edge vs Cloud

In late September, the MIPI Alliance held their DevCon conference as a virtual event. There were several excellent presentations at the conference. One of those was titled “A MIPI CSI-2/MIPI D-PHY Solution for AI Edge Devices” by Ashraf Takla of Mixel. Looking at the daily volume of technology news about applications moving to… Read More


High-Speed Data Converters Accelerating Automotive and 5G Products

High-Speed Data Converters Accelerating Automotive and 5G Products
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-10-2021 at 10:00 am

Enabling Technology Omni Design SWIFT

While the trend towards System-on-Chip (SoC) has been gathering momentum for quite some time, the primary driver has been integration of digital components, spurred by Moore’s law. Integrating more and more digital circuitry into a single chip has been consistently beneficial for performance, power, form factor and economic… Read More


A Packet-Based Approach for Optimal Neural Network Acceleration

A Packet-Based Approach for Optimal Neural Network Acceleration
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-08-2021 at 10:00 am

6 Optimal Work Unit Designed for DLA

The Linley Group held its Fall Processor Conference 2021 last week. There were a number of very informative talks from various companies updating the audience on the latest research and development work happening in the industry. The presentations were categorized as per their focus, under eight different sessions. The sessions… Read More


Five Reasons Why a High Performance Reconfigurable SmartNIC Demands a 2D NoC

Five Reasons Why a High Performance Reconfigurable SmartNIC Demands a 2D NoC
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-04-2021 at 6:00 am

6 Reason 1 High Bandwidth 6

As part of their webinar series, SemiWiki hosted one in June with the title “Five Reasons Why a High Performance Reconfigurable SmartNIC Demands a 2D NoC.” The talk by given by Scott Schweitzer, Sr. Manager, Product Planning at Achronix. Scott is a lifelong technology evangelist and focuses on recognizing technology trends and… Read More


Lecture Series: Designing a Time Interleaved ADC for 5G Automotive Applications

Lecture Series: Designing a Time Interleaved ADC for 5G Automotive Applications
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-01-2021 at 6:00 am

Slide AMS Lecture Series Snapshot

A recent educational virtual event with the above title was jointly sponsored by Synopsys and Global Foundries. The objective was to bring awareness to state-of-the-art mixed-signal design practices for automotive circuits. The 2-day event comprised of lectures delivered by engineering professors and doctoral students… Read More


Using PUFs for Random Number Generation

Using PUFs for Random Number Generation
by Kalar Rajendiran on 10-19-2021 at 6:00 am

3 API Functions

In our daily lives, few of us if any, would want randomness to play any role. We look for predictability in order to plan our lives. But reality is that random numbers have been playing a role in our lives for a long time. The more conspicuous use cases of random numbers are with key fobs, and nowadays mobile phones. And then there are a … Read More