AMD has made another play in the poker game for RF-capable FPGAs against Altera. AMD’s opening ante, actually Xilinx’s opening ante, was the introduction in early 2017 of the first RFSoC, based on the existing Zynq UltraScale+ SoC. Altera’s counter, in late 2022 back when Altera was still Intel, was to introduce the Agilex 9 Direct-RF series of FPGAs. The two companies have taken different manufacturing approaches … Read More → "AMD ups the ante in the RF-enabled FPGA poker game with the Versal RF family"
I’m afraid I’m in a techno-dweeby mood at this moment in time. My head is filled with thoughts that are bouncing around my noggin like demented ping pong balls. Speaking of which, do you remember my 12×12 ping pong ball display?
If so, then—as you may recall—the last thing I did with this bodacious beauty was to implement a Read More → "This One’s for the Techno-Dweebs"
Almost anyone involved in developing new products today wants those products to have an artificial intelligence (AI) component [for the purposes of this column we will take AI to embrace machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL)]. The problem is that AI is still very new in the scheme of things—everyone has heard about it, almost everybody uses it, but relatively few people know how to … Read More → "One More Step on the Path to AIIE (AI-In-Everything)"
I have seen the future, and it’s going to be even more amazing than our wildest dreams. Do I have your attention? Good. Then I’ll begin…
Have you seen The Time Machine movie? Well, I should say “movies” because there was the classic Read More → "I See Holograms Everywhere"
The term “machine vision” refers to the technologies and processes by which machines extract, analyze, and interpret visual information from the physical world using sensors and computational algorithms. It enables machines to “see,” make decisions, and perform actions based on their visual inputs.
While 2D machine vision is great—I won’t hear a bad word said about 2D—it must be acknowledged … Read More → "Augmenting an Existing 2D CMOS Sensor to Provide 3D Depth Perception"
Did you ever wonder why they (whoever “they” are) chose the prefix “tera” to mean trillion (as in 10^12, or 1,000,000,000,000)? Well, it’s because because this comes from the Greek word teras, meaning “monster” or “marvel.” Thus, “tera” was chosen to reflect the large size of a trillion, implying something vast and extraordinary, much like the way a monster or marvel would stand proud in the … Read More → "Bringing Innate Intelligence to Trillions of Devices"
