Hackaday

Learn FPGA With This Persistence Of Vision Hack

Everybody wants to give FPGA development a try and here’s a great way to get into it. You can build your own Persistence of Vision display using a $30 dev board. It’s a fun project, and you’ll learn ...
Hackaday

Learn FPGA Programming From The 1940s

We often think that not enough people are building things with FPGAs. We also love the retrotechtacular posts on old computer hardware. So it was hard to pass up [karlwoodward’s] post about the Chip ...
EDN

FPGA learning made easy with a virtual university program

Altera University aims to affordably and easily introduce students to the world of FPGAs and digital logic programming tools by unveiling the curriculum, tutorials, and lab exercises that bridge the ...
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 ...
insideHPC

Unified Deep Learning with CPU, GPU and FPGA Technologies

Deep learning and complex machine learning has quickly become one of the most important computationally intensive applications for a wide variety of fields. The combination of large data sets, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

New Deep Learning Processors, Embedded FPGA Technologies, SoC Design Solutions

Some of the most valuable events at DAC are the IP Track sessions, which give small and midsize companies a chance to share innovations that might not get much attention elsewhere. The use of IP in ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Highways Speed Machine Learning and Communication

Today’s high-speed FPGAs have a passing similarity to their older counterparts. However, large arrays of identical lookup tables (LUTs) and interconnect fabrics have given way to high-speed, ...
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 ...
insideHPC

New Achronix Bittware FPGA Accelerator Speeds Cloud, AI, and Machine Learning

Achronix and Bittware are collaborating on a new FPGA accelerator designed for cloud, AI, and machine learning applications. Increased demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) ...
The Next Platform

Intel FPGA Architecture Focuses on Deep Learning Inference

There has been much written about the potential for FPGAs to take a leadership role in accelerating deep learning but in practice, the hurdles of getting from concept to high performance hardware ...
Electronic Design

Embedded FPGA Optimized for Machine Learning and Communication

1. Processor performance is starting to level off. (Source: “Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach,” by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson) What’s not shown in the chart is where GPGPUs ...
The Next Platform

Intel Gears Up For FPGA Push

Chip giant Intel has been talking about CPU-FPGA compute complexes for so long that it is hard to remember sometimes that its hybrid Xeon-Arria compute unit, which puts a Xeon server chip and a ...