Author: arnaud

FPGAi & Instruments

AMD Embedded Tour – Massy – June, 11th

The “Embedded” Business Unit of AMD comes along Gaming, Data Center & AI business units. During the event, the focus was on Adaptive SoC and FPGAs, but embedded processors solutions Ryzen and Epyc were mentionned. It was emphasized that embedded here refers to extreme environment tolerance of these devices. A review of portfolios The AMD…
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One Ware & Altera white paper for defect detection with MAX 10 FPGA

In a just released white paper (link), One Ware explains how they implemented a tailored AI model (CNN) using only a fraction of the logic capacity of the chip. They compare the performance with a raw approach using Jetson nano GPU from Nvidia and claim major interest in power consumption, accuracy and cost. Although specific…
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Software Defined Instrumentation : FPGA SoC based products

To illustrate the place of FPGA SoC in the so called Software Defined Instrumentation world, we list a few products relying on this technology. RedPitaya RedPitaya has just released the Gen 2 of its STEMlab 125-14v (link) ! It is based on Xilinx Zynq 7010/7020 with ADC/DAC interfaced on board. Maximum sampling is 250 MSPS.…
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