As FPGA designs have gone from manageable to humongous, the demands on design tools and design tool expertise has risen exponentially. Long gone are the days when an applications engineer could waltz into your lab, click a few magic keys on a laptop, and walk out an hour later, having helped you achieve timing closure on your problematic FPGA design. Now, FPGA tools demand massive amounts … Read More → "Plunify Cloud-powers Xilinx"
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been dominating the discussion on AI advancement for the past couple of years. But CNNs have one glaring weakness – a heavy reliance on massive amounts of multiplication. This huge arithmetic obstacle has led to a plethora of initiatives to accelerate both the training and inference phases of deep learning with CNNs, and a wide variety of hardware and software architectures designed … Read More → "Brainchip Debuts Neuromorphic Chip"
EEJournal readers ought to be very familiar with Bitcoin by now. All of the computing fruits of semiconductor technology, including microprocessors, GPUs, FPGAs, and ultimately ASICs, have been harnessed in the frenzied search for solutions to a mathematical problem that serves as “proof of work” that entitles the bearer to Bitcoin, using the rules originally created by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto and published in a paper … Read More → "Blockchain is not Bitcoin—Bitcoin is not Blockchain"
“If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.” – Chris Rock
The recent news that GlobalFoundries is suspending its 7nm development, possibly forever, has a lot of industry observers asking, “Huh?”
And that’s one of the more eloquent and considered queries. Here at EEJ Global Nerve Center, our mailbag is filled … Read More → "Where Do Silicon Chips Come From, Anyway?"
In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, Adam Sherer and I explore the past, present, and future of simulation. Adam and I examine how mixed-signal and functionality play into the grand scheme of simulation and why parallel logic simulation is crucial to today’s giga-gate chip design. Also this week, we check out some super cool new programmable, reversible shape-switching technology coming out of the University of Colorado.Read More → "Not Your Grandfather’s Simulator"
He stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni – Yankee Doodle
CEO Victor Peng announced Xilinx’s 7nm Everest architecture, dubbed ACAP (the Adaptable Computing Acceleration Platform), earlier this year in March. (See Kevin Morris’ “Xilinx Previews Next Generation: What the Heck is ACAP?Read More → "Xilinx Puts a Feather in its ACAP"
