Get free dev boards, win fame and prizes in the Arrow European FPGA contest - Arrow Electronics has launched its Arrow European FPGA Developer Contest and you can get a free FPGA dev board just by entering. But you need to hurry. The Phase 1 application deadline is October 31, 2019. Here’s what you need to do: Click on the link above for details. Choose one of the three dev...
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Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Software version 19.3 Pro Edition update software with new features and additional device support now ready for download - Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Software version 19.3 Pro Edition update software with support for new Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs is now available for download. In addition to Intel Agilex FPGAs, support has been added for several more devices in the Intel® Stratix® 10, Intel® Arria® 10, and Intel® Cyclone® 10 FPGA families and there is additional...
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Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA is first (and only) FPGA on the PCI-SIG System Integrators List for PCIe 4.0 - The P-tile incorporated in the newly announced Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA is the first and currently the only FPGA component-level device listed in the PCI-SIG Integrators List for PCI Express 4.0 (PCIe Gen4). You’ll find it in the “Components: Endpoints” section. The P-tile implements the Intel Stratix 10 DX FPGA’s PCIe Gen4 x16 interface....
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FPGA accelerates face recognition while protecting inference model through data encryption - The video below, made at the recent Embedded Vision Summit, demonstrates an Intel® FPGA performing face recognition through a machine language (ML) inference model. A CPU downloads the model to the FPGA in encrypted form and is stored that way in the FPGA’s external SDRAM. Decryption only occurs when the FPGA reads the model...
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Meet 5G High Density I/O Goals through Software Optimization and Hardware Acceleration - Intel, Affirmed Networks, and Dell EMC have developed a proof of concept for high-performance Next-Generation Core Networks (NGCN). Together, the three companies have written and published a White Paper that presents a state-of-the-art solution for a commercial, standalone 5G core network (5GCN) that achieves 100 Gbps/CPU socket using a 100 GbE NIC plugged into...
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WWT’s Advanced Technology Center provides access to seven diverse high-performance, FPGA-accelerated application demos - World Wide Technology (WWT) has developed an FPGA “Center of Excellence” within its immense Advanced Technology Center (ATC) to provide its customers with a one-stop resource for exploring the performance benefits of FPGA acceleration based on the Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon® CPU with FPGAs. The ATC creates a collaborative ecosystem that enables customers...
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Corerain’s CAISA stream engine transforms FPGA into Deep Learning Neural Network without HDL coding - With their thousands of on-chip multipliers, FPGAs provide ample computational resources needed to implement convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and other deep neural networks (DNNs) based on Deep Learning (DL) models. However, fully utilizing the capabilities of these resources has required expertise in hardware description language (HDL) programming using either Verilog...
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rENIAC’s FPGA-based Distributed Data Engine boosts Cassandra database performance as much as 10X when deployed as data proxy. - rENIAC’s Distributed Data Engine accelerates the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database by both increasing throughput and reducing latency. Facebook originally developed the Apache Cassandra distributed NoSQL database to power its inbox search feature and released it to the open-source community more than a decade ago, where it has continued to flourish. The distributed Cassandra database application...
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How to power nearly everything – Processors, FPGAs, ASICs – the easy way with high-frequency PowerSOC converters - The days of powering every chip on a board with a single 5 V or 3.3 V supply are long gone. Most complex ICs including processors, FPGAs, and ASICs require multiple supply voltages. Efficiently meeting the power needs of these devices becomes a complicated design challenge, but point-of-load (POL) converters can simplify these challenges....
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Intel and Partners Demo End-to-End 5G Picocell Solution at MWC Shanghai - Picocells are critical network elements that will be required for low-cost densification of 5G networks. Densification will create wireless networks that are more agile, more elastic, and more intelligent while delivering better network performance, at lower cost, and with better energy efficiency. Last month at MWC Shanghai, Intel and some of its 5G partners...
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How to restore an original, 50-year-old Apollo Guidance Computer with a little assist from an FPGA - This coming Saturday, July 20, marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the first time that a human being stepped upon a celestial body other than the Earth. Many, many commemorative activities are planned and many more have already taken place to celebrate this anniversary, but perhaps one of the coolest,...
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Low-cost Trenz Electronic C10LP-RefKit dev board based on Intel Cyclone® 10 FPGA available through Arrow - Arrow Electronics is now carrying the low-cost Trenz Electronic C10LP-RefKit dev board, which is based on a low-power Intel® Cyclone® 10 FPGA with 55k logic elements. The FPGA and on-board peripherals are powered by a pair of high-efficiency Intel® Enpirion® EN6347QI PowerSOC stepdown, dc-dc converter modules. The C10LP-RefKit dev board also incorporates 8 Mbytes...
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Develop custom 200 Gbps packet-processing pipelines using Netcope P4 for SmartNICs based on Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs - P4 is the latest high-level programming language for network packet-processing, data-plane pipeline development and FPGAs make excellent, high-performance targets for executing compiled P4 programs. P4 is an open-source, permissively licensed language maintained by the non-profit P4 Language Consortium. Netcope has just upgraded its cloud-based P4 compiler so that it is now capable of generating...
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