Hackaday

Learn FPGA With This Persistence Of Vision Hack

Everybody wants to give FPGA development a try and here’s a great way to get into it. You can build your own Persistence of Vision display using a $30 dev board. It’s a fun project, and you’ll learn ...
Hackaday

Learn FPGA Programming From The 1940s

We often think that not enough people are building things with FPGAs. We also love the retrotechtacular posts on old computer hardware. So it was hard to pass up [karlwoodward’s] post about the Chip ...
EDN

FPGA learning made easy with a virtual university program

Altera University aims to affordably and easily introduce students to the world of FPGAs and digital logic programming tools by unveiling the curriculum, tutorials, and lab exercises that bridge the ...
EDN

A Breakthrough in FPGA-Based Deep Learning Inference

Mipsology’s Zebra Deep Learning inference engine is designed to be fast, painless, and adaptable, outclassing CPU, GPU, and ASIC competitors. I recently attended the 2018 Xilinx Development Forum (XDF ...
Geeky Gadgets

iCEBreaker FPGA open source development board makes learning digital logic design easy

Anyone looking to teach or learn more about digital logic design may be interested in a new open source development board created by 1BitSquared called the iCEBreaker FPGA. Watch the video below to ...
The Next Platform

Intel FPGA Architecture Focuses on Deep Learning Inference

There has been much written about the potential for FPGAs to take a leadership role in accelerating deep learning but in practice, the hurdles of getting from concept to high performance hardware ...
Semiconductor Engineering

New Deep Learning Processors, Embedded FPGA Technologies, SoC Design Solutions

Some of the most valuable events at DAC are the IP Track sessions, which give small and midsize companies a chance to share innovations that might not get much attention elsewhere. The use of IP in ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Highways Speed Machine Learning and Communication

Today’s high-speed FPGAs have a passing similarity to their older counterparts. However, large arrays of identical lookup tables (LUTs) and interconnect fabrics have given way to high-speed, ...
ZDNet

AI chips for big data and machine learning: Hard choices in the cloud and on-premise

Applications and infrastructure evolve in lock-step. That point has been amply made, and since this is the AI regeneration era, infrastructure is both enabling AI applications to make sense of the ...
The Next Platform

FPGA Maker Snaps Up Deep Learning Chip Startup

FPGA maker Xilinx has acquired Chinese deep learning chip startup DeePhi Tech for an undisclosed sum. The Next Platform has been watching DeePhi closely over the last few years as it appeared to be ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Machine Learning Shifts More Work to FPGAs, SoCs

A wave of machine-learning-optimized chips is expected to begin shipping in the next few months, but it will take time before data centers decide whether these new accelerators are worth adopting and ...
Electronic Design

Embedded FPGA Optimized for Machine Learning and Communication

1. Processor performance is starting to level off. (Source: “Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach,” by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson) What’s not shown in the chart is where GPGPUs ...