NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Mission Team relies on 4K video collaboration system based on Crestron DM NVX AV-over-IP streaming media devices - Last month, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed successfully in Jezero Crater on Mars and has taken its first test drive. You may have seen video of the mission team at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) standing up and cheering when news of the successful landing arrived here on Earth. The Mars 2020 Perseverance Mission Team is...
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Designing High-Performance ATE, RF, or Communications Test Equipment? Here’s why you need Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs - It’s tough developing test equipment for leading-edge products because the test equipment must have all the functions and capabilities of the equipment being tested, and often just a bit more. This is a perfect place for using FPGAs, particularly the new, high-performance Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs and SoCs. If you are developing this type of test...
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Free “Office Hours” Live Web session: Getting to Timing Closure Faster with Intel® FPGAs – Tuesday, February 23 - Achieving timing closure can be one of the most challenging and perhaps one of the most frustrating facets of FPGA-based design. After performing a complete timing analysis on an FPGA design, getting one or more timing reports indicating a timing failure is an all-too-common occurrence. How can you fix this problem? There are many techniques,...
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WaveNet Neural Network runs on Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA, synthesizes 256 16 kHz audio streams in real time - State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems generally employ two neural network models that run sequentially to generate audio. The first model generates acoustic features such as spectrograms from input text. The second model, a vocoder, takes intermediate features from the first model and produces speech. Tacotron 2 is often used as the first model. A new...
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The Next Platform discusses the latest Intel Networking Innovations including new Intel® SmartNICs based on Intel® FPGAs - Last month, Intel introduced several FPGA-based networking innovations, including the Intel® FPGA SmartNIC C5000X platform architecture – designed to meet the needs of Cloud Service Providers. Also announced: the Inventec FPGA SmartNIC C5020X, based on the Intel FPGA SmartNIC C5000X platform, and the Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N5010, a hardware-programmable 4x100G FPGA SmartNIC that combines an...
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Springer and Intel publish new book on DPC++ parallel programming, and you can get a free PDF copy! - Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) is an open-source compiler project based on the Khronos SYCL compiler with a few extensions. It is also the foundation compiler technology for oneAPI, a cross-industry, open, standards-based unified programming model that delivers a common developer experience across accelerator architectures. SYCL is an industry-driven Khronos programming language standard that adds data...
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Intel and University of Massachusetts Lowell pilot FPGA learning for students in the Intel® DevCloud. You can now use these resources too, for free - The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted everyone’s lives in ways we could never have imagined. For example, the most basic methods of teaching and learning based on group settings are no longer easy or even possible in many locations. The challenge is to deliver high-quality instruction while dealing with the reality of group-learning restrictions. Like all...
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SmartNICs based on Intel® FPGAs Boost Converged Broadband Network Performance - To meet consumer demands, telco providers that offer both wireless and wireline access to customers rely on dual, complex fixed and mobile infrastructures that must constantly be upgraded and maintained at great cost. Consequently, telco Internet providers continuously explore new ways to reduce costs and create new revenue streams. Many operators, for example, are eyeing...
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Free Aerospace and Defense Electronics Design Webinar from Arrow and Intel – November 5. Register now - If your team is working on next-generation aerospace or defense projects, then a new Webinar from Arrow and Intel titled “Delivering Next Generation Aerospace & Defense solutions with Intel Technologies” might just bring you some information you can use, immediately. Intel has unique offerings for the most demanding aerospace and defense electronic designs. For example,...
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Intel® FPGA enables new levels of security for 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable CPU (code named Ice Lake) Server Platform - Earlier this month Intel released details about several new security technologies associated with the upcoming 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor (code-named “Ice Lake”) server platform. These technologies include: Intel® Software Guard Extension (Intel® SGX), a heavily researched, updated, and battle-tested Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) used for confidential computing in data centers. Intel Total...
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Intel and partners announce high-performance SmartNICs that deliver programmable network acceleration for cloud data centers and communications infrastructure - Intel has been a leader in Ethernet networking since the very beginnings of the IEEE 802 standard. The first Ethernet specification, Version 1.0, was published on September 30, 1980 – forty years ago. It was submitted as a candidate for the active IEEE project 802 local area network standardization effort. The original Ethernet specification document...
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Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Version 20.3 Software Now Ready for Download - Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Version 20.3 Software is now available for download. In addition to functional and security updates, the new development software for Intel® FPGAs incorporates many new features including: Significant Fmax improvements for both Intel® Stratix® 10 and Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs Added ability to pass HDL parameters and IP via RTL...
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New article discusses why FPGAs are a good choice for deep-learning applications and research - Many AI workloads such as image recognition rely heavily on parallelism to achieve good performance. For that reason, early AI researchers swiftly adopted GPUs, which provide significant amount of computational parallelism. GPUs were originally designed to render video and graphics, so they excel at parallel processing and can perform a very large number of arithmetic...
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