Hackaday

Learning Verilog For FPGAs: Hardware At Last!

Getting into FPGA design isn’t a monolithic experience. You have to figure out a toolchain, learn how to think in hardware during the design, and translate that into working Verliog. The end goal is ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Machine Learning Shifts More Work to FPGAs, SoCs

A wave of machine-learning-optimized chips is expected to begin shipping in the next few months, but it will take time before data centers decide whether these new accelerators are worth adopting and ...
The Next Platform

FPGA Based Deep Learning Accelerators Take on ASICs

Over the last couple of years, the idea that the most efficient and high performance way to accelerate deep learning training and inference is with a custom ASIC—something designed to fit the specific ...
Hackaday

Learning Verilog for FPGAs

Getting into FPGA design isn’t a monolithic experience. You have to figure out a toolchain, learn how to think in hardware during the design, and translate that into working Verliog. The end goal is ...
Nature

FPGA-Based Acceleration of Deep Learning Networks

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have emerged as flexible hardware platforms for accelerating deep learning networks, offering high energy efficiency, low latency and reconfigurable parallelism.
The Next Platform

Microsoft Extends FPGA Reach From Bing To Deep Learning

After three years of research into how it might accelerate its Bing search engine using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Microsoft came up with a scheme that would let it lash Stratix V devices ...
EDN

A Breakthrough in FPGA-Based Deep Learning Inference

Mipsology’s Zebra Deep Learning inference engine is designed to be fast, painless, and adaptable, outclassing CPU, GPU, and ASIC competitors. I recently attended the 2018 Xilinx Development Forum (XDF ...
ZDNet

AI chips for big data and machine learning: Hard choices in the cloud and on-premise

Applications and infrastructure evolve in lock-step. That point has been amply made, and since this is the AI regeneration era, infrastructure is both enabling AI applications to make sense of the ...
Design News

Learning About FPGAs, Part 2

A number of tools are available to help designers develop and work with FGPAS. Hymel discusses the open-source Ice40 FPGA toolchain, which includes apio, yosys, nextpnr, and Project IceStorm. He walks ...
Design News

Learning About FPGAs, Part 3

In the first two parts of this video tutorial series, instructor Shawn Hymel discussed what an FPGA is and how to install apio and the open-source toolchain required ...
Electronic Design

FPGAs for Advanced Video Processing Solutions

While the performance of an ASIC is typically high enough for broadcast-quality video processing, it supports only the feature set conceived of at design time and is not field upgradable. A CPU is the ...