Renesas Electronics Corporation is expanding its range of embedded artificial intelligence (e-AI) solutions for incorporating AI into embedded systems by bringing intelligence to endpoints. The new RZ/A2M microprocessor (MPU) expands the use of e-AI solutions to high-end applications and delivers 10 times the image processing performance of its predecessor, the RZ/A1. It also incorporates Renesas’ exclusive Dynamically […]
Artificial intelligence
Computing hardware platform accelerates AI development efforts
Enabling a new era of rapid innovation for any application by any developer, Xilinx, Inc. CEO Victor Peng unveiled Versal– the industry’s first adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP). Versal ACAPs combine Scalar Processing Engines, Adaptable Hardware Engines, and Intelligent Engines with leading-edge memory and interfacing technologies to deliver powerful heterogeneous acceleration for any application. But most importantly, […]
Ultra-low power AI stack expanded to include platforms, reference designs, tools
Lattice expanded features of the company’s popular Lattice sensAI stack designed to speed time-to-market for developers of flexible machine learning inferencing in consumer and industrial IoT applications. Building on the ultra-low power (1 mW-1 W) focus of the sensAI stack, Lattice is releasing new IP cores, reference designs, demos and hardware development kits that provide scalable […]
Neuromorphic SoC brings AI to the edge and enterprise
BrainChip Holdings Ltd. announces production of the spiking neural network architecture – the Akida Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC). The Akida NSoC is small, low cost and low power, making it ideal for edge applications such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicles, drones, vision-guided robotics, surveillance and machine vision systems. Its scalability allows users to network […]
AI-enabled app leverages machine learning algorithms
Synopsys, Inc. announced a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) enabled formal verification app, Regression Mode Accelerator, as part of the Synopsys VC Formal solution. This VC Formal app leverages state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to deliver 10X speed-up in formal property verification during the design and verification cycle. Along with significant performance speed-up, use of this app accelerates […]
Million-mile drives on computers that don’t move
Simulation is the only way to get the kind of confidence necessary to field autonomous vehicle functions. Karsten Krügel, Sven Flake, dSPACE GmbH HOW do you ensure that an autonomous vehicle will perform safely when the driver’s responsibility has essentially been removed? The necessity for reliable operation under this scenario is raising major challenges within […]
New GPU architecture features better accelerated ray tracing, AI inferencing
NVIDIA today reinvented computer graphics with the launch of the NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture. Turing features new RT Cores to accelerate ray tracing and new Tensor Cores for AI inferencing which, together for the first time, make real-time ray tracing possible. These two engines — along with more powerful compute for simulation and enhanced rasterization — usher in a new […]
The tricky business of teaching cars to see
Neural network software can be difficult to debug. One reason: It functions only vaguely in the way it has been explained to the general public. Leland Teschler, Executive Editor CRACK open an autonomous-driving vehicle and you will find neural networks taught to recognize objects such as pedestrians, road signs, and other vehicles. Recent accidents involving […]
Connecting the car is the easy part
At the annual conference of the Society of Automotive Engineers, no small number of technical papers cover issues surrounding driver interactions with features on the car dashboard. Touchscreens, in particular, are a hot topic. You can find SAE papers with impressive-sounding titles such as, Touch Interactive Display Systems: Human Factors Considerations, System Design and Performance […]
Six-axis inertial measurement unit sports low drift, +/- 16 g acceleration range
Thales announces at Sensors Expo 2018, the availability of its NavChip2, the latest in its family of high precision Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). The NavChip2 provides the highest performance to price in the market of 6-axis IMU’s and is fully factory calibrated. Embedded temperature sensors enable excellent compensation over the entire -40 °C to +85 […]