A new press release reports, “Aldec, Inc., a pioneer in mixed HDL language simulation and hardware-assisted verification for FPGA and ASIC designs, has enhanced its popular unified requirements lifecycle management EDA tool, Spec-TRACER™, to better support team-based projects when working on designs that must be certified to safety standards such as DO-254. The 2019.3 release […]
Benchmarking the Full AI Hardware/Software Stack
Click to learn more about author James Kobielus. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a resource hog. AI-powered programs will grind to a halt unless developers continue to seek out the fastest, most scalable, most power-efficient and lowest-cost hardware, software and Cloud platforms to run their workloads. As the AI arena shifts toward workload-optimized architectures, there’s a growing need […]
2018: Realizing Smart Industry Goals
Click to learn more about authors Philipp Wallner and Seth Deland. The industrial world is transforming with the rise of smart industry. Modern production machines and handling equipment have become highly integrated mechatronic systems with a considerable portion of embedded software. The growing abundance of data is a key driver of smart industry. Power plants, […]
Low-Cost AI Chipsets Will Take the Mobility Market by Storm in 2018
Click to learn more about author James Kobielus. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly being incorporated into diverse applications in the Cloud and at the network’s edge. The pace at which the technology is being adopted depends on the extent to which it is incorporated into commodity chipsets. To be ready for widespread adoption, AI’s algorithmic smarts need […]
The Future of the Data Center: Heterogeneous Computing
“The whole point of Heterogeneous Computing is to have the right tools available, so you can use the right processor, in the right place, at the right time,” said Pat McGarry, the VP of Engineering at Ryft in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. Such a statement certainly sounds both pertinent and beneficial, but in reality what […]