Month: May 2019

• OpenVINO toolkit wins Vision Product of the Year Award in Best Developer Tools category at Embedded Vision Summit   The Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit – an open suite of tools that software developers can use to create optimized visual-inference and deep-learning applications based on neural networks (NNs) – has won a coveted Vision Product of the Year Award in the “Best Developer Tools” category at the Embedded Vision Summit (EVS), held this month in Santa Clara, California....
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• Intel releases Royalty-Free, High-Performance AIB Interconnect Standard to Spur Industry’s Chiplet Adoption and Grow the Ecosystem   Back in 1965, in his landmark article titled “Cramming more Components onto Integrated Circuits,” Gordon Moore noted that, “…It may prove to be more economical to build large systems out of smaller functions, which are separately packaged and interconnected.” The budding semiconductor industry had other ideas and has taken a wild ride down the scaling slopes, going from micron-sized...
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• Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 19.1 is here. Download it now.   The latest Intel® Quartus Prime Pro Edition software, version 19.1, is now available for download and you’re going to want it for the latest updates, which include the following additional and enhanced tools to make your job easier: Improved synthesis algorithms including Fractal Synthesis and improved dot-product synthesis. Fractal Synthesis uses a new set of synthesis, clustering, and packing...
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• EEJournal’s Kevin Morris weighs in on ZTE’s selection of Intel® eASIC™ devices for 5G wireless upgrade   On May 1, Intel announced that ZTE had selected Intel® eASIC™ devices for its 5G wireless products to meet the critical cost and power requirements demanded by large-scale 5G deployments. (See “ZTE Selects Intel’s eASIC Devices for 5G Wireless Deployment.”) A week later, EEJournal’s founder and Editor-in-Chief Kevin Morris weighed in on the announcement in his article titled “eASIC’s...
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• See Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs upscale 4K60 video to 8K60 and send it via HDMI 2.1 in real time at Intel’s Infocomm Booth in June   Be sure to come by the Intel booth (#3300) at Infocomm next month (Orlando, June 12-14) to see a live UHD video-scaling demo where an FPGA board based on an Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA will convert 4K60 video streamed from an Intel® NUC media player over HDMI 2.0 into scaled, 8K60 video using a variety of Intel soft...
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• Win Money and Recognition by Entering the InnovateFPGA Contest   By Markus Adhiwiyogo. Do you have a solution for using Intel® FPGAs and AI to improve the world we live in? Share your concept at the InnovateFPGA 2019 contest, where participants from around the world compete to invent the future of Artificial Intelligence in smart devices at the edge using DE10-Nano Kit or the OpenVINO Starter Kit. Participants will...
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• Cygnus Supercomputer Simulates the Early Universe with an FPGA Acceleration Boost   The Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) at the University of Tsukuba in Japan has developed multiple generations of leading-edge, highly parallel supercomputer systems over the last three decades. CCS’s mission is to promote scientific discovery by supporting university research at several Japanese universities with fast computing resources. The latest machine, dubbed Cygnus, is CCS’s tenth-generation supercomputer and it’s just...
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• How do the new Intel Agilex FPGA family and the CXL coherent interconnect fabric intersect?   On April 2, Intel announced the new 10-nm family of Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs. (See “Intel Driving Data-Centric World with New 10nm Intel Agilex FPGA Family” for more information.) Among the many innovations included in the new Intel Agilex FPGA device family is inclusion of a high-bandwidth, low-latency Compute Express Link (CXL) coherent processor interface as a hard IP block....
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• Insatiable Bandwidth Requirements Drive Cloud and 5G Data Centers Towards 400G   Simply stated, everything in the cloud desperately needs more bandwidth. Enterprise data centers need more bandwidth; hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers need more bandwidth; and the 5G rollout further exacerbates the cellular carriers’ need for more networking bandwidth to meet growing WAN capacity requirements. For all of these heavy users of networking equipment, adding more 100G Ethernet (100GE)...
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