Hackaday

Learning Verilog for FPGAs

Getting into FPGA design isn’t a monolithic experience. You have to figure out a toolchain, learn how to think in hardware during the design, and translate that into working Verliog. The end goal is ...
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 ...
The Next Platform

Emerging “Universal” FPGA, GPU Platform for Deep Learning

In the last couple of years, we have written and heard about the usefulness of GPUs for deep learning training as well as, to a lesser extent, custom ASICs and FPGAs. All of these options have shown ...
insideHPC

Intel FPGAs Break Record for Deep Learning Facial Recognition

Today Intel announced record results on a new benchmark in deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNN). Developed with ZTE, a leading technology telecommunications equipment and systems ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Applying Machine Learning to EDA, FPGA Design Automation Tools

A technical paper titled “Application of Machine Learning in FPGA EDA Tool Development” was published by researchers at the University of Texas Dallas. “With the recent advances in hardware ...
The Next Platform

FPGA Based Deep Learning Accelerators Take on ASICs

Over the last couple of years, the idea that the most efficient and high performance way to accelerate deep learning training and inference is with a custom ASIC—something designed to fit the specific ...
insideHPC

Unified Deep Learning with CPU, GPU and FPGA Technologies

Deep learning and complex machine learning has quickly become one of the most important computationally intensive applications for a wide variety of fields. The combination of large data sets, ...
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

Achronix’s Speedcore Gen 4 can be tailored for machine-learning applications as well as to deliver high-performance FPGA connectivity for embedded FPGAs. 1. Processor performance is starting to level ...
New Electronics

FPGAs to better machine learning and AI applications

“One of the things we’re doing is to offload the machine learning element from Xeon and push it to FPGAs. If there isn’t a primitive in the FPGA, you can use the cache coherent bus to push data back ...