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The last presentation that I'll cover in its own post from this year's Embedded Vision Conference will give you plenty of homework to do between now and next year's Embedded Vision Conference, where you can book a slot to present your nascent company...

Jeff Bier heads up the Embedded Vision Alliance (and, in his day job, he heads up BDTi). His own presentation was titled 1000X in 3 Years: How Embedded Vision Is Transforming from Exotic to Everyday. His main point is that we are living in a time of unprecedented...

The keynote on the second day of the Embedded Vision Summit was by Jitendra Malik of UC Berkeley. He has been working in the field since before there really was a field, and so was the perfect person to give some history, a look at the exciting problems...

The opening keynote at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara was by Marc Pollefeys, who is a director of science at Microsoft in Redmond, working on advanced capabilities for Hololens, and a professor at ETH Zurich. I'm betting he has a lot of Swissair...

https://youtu.be/C7nOhT8ey7g

Coming from Cadence Cafeteria (camera Sean)

Monday: Bier Googles: 1000X in 3 years

Tuesday: Chris Rowen on How to Start an Embedded Vision Company

Wednesday: My DAC preview

Thursday: Designing with Silicon Photonic...

"It's a visual world," Tim Ramsdale of ARM said at one point in the recent Embedded Vision Summit. "If I had a colleague come and drop a stack of plates at the back of the room, you'd all look round to see what happened, not listen harder." Today, we...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Megha Daga talks about how Cadence did a complete inside-out study and came up with the Tensilica Vision C5 DSP to solve the current challenges and evolving trends in the field of CNN.

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Cadence was already talking about chip-package-board back in 2000 when I was putting together presentations during my last tour of duty. Around then, it started to become impossible to design the chip, especially the power network, to be robust without...

From 15-17 May CDNLive EMEA opened again its doors for around 700 attendees from all over Europe, who want to know more about the new products from Cadence. For the 10^th time Cadence Academic Network has organized an Academic Track, which definitely was...

Have you ever looked at the Corners Setup form and wished you had some way of finding that one corner out of the hundreds? What if you could filter for enabled corners, certain values, model files etc, then only run the corners you've found? Well now you can!

Now, the Corners Setup form has been updated and includes a filter column with the ability to save and delete filters and a way to enable only the corners…

Every year at DAC, Heart of Technology (HOT) organizes a charity event. This year, the cause is the Gary Smith Memorial Scholarship Endowment at San Jose State University (SJSU). If you have been in the industry for a long time, then you probably knew...

I love that recently Westerns movies are making a comeback. Something about the romanticism of a hired gun coming in with no baggage, looking at the situation pragmatically, and doing what everyone knows needs to be done, but just can’t.

Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone’s epic Spaghetti Westerns, aren’t the only foreign influence on what we think of as American Westerns…

At the RISC-V workshop in Shanghai, the keynote on the second day was by Bunnie Huang. His new book, The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware, has just been published. There is more about him on his Wikipedia page.

Everyone knows...

https://youtu.be/xTdQCRRme8U

Coming from Mexico City, Mexico (camera Yuan Yuan)

Monday: Memorial day

Tuesday: New product announcement

Wednesday: Embedded Vision Summit: "It's a visual world"

Thursday: Microsoft on the Hololens

This is my second (二 in Chinese) post about the 6th RISC-V workshop held in early May.

I covered the panel sessions and my overview of the state of the nation of RISC-V in RISC-V 6th Workshop. Today's post covers some of the other presentations. There...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Megha Daga takes a deep dive into bandwidth requirements, one of the biggest challenges in Convolutional Neural Network and presents some ideas on how to handle these requirements.

https://youtu.be/Ic8s7b_XfO0

As part of the RISC-V workshop, Dave Patterson gave a talk on computer architecture. I split it into two. The first piece appeared yesterday Fifty Years of Computer Architecture: The First 20 Years.

Our intrepid hero, Dave Patterson, is an untenured...

As part of the RISC-V workshop, Dave Patterson gave a talk on computer architecture. He recently retired from UC Berkeley, and in another sense it was a career retrospective. He did let drop that he is working with Google so his retirement doesn’t seem...

Dream Chip is a company based in Germany just outside Hannover. Martin Zeller presented at CDNLive Silicon Valley on A New Computer Vision Processor Chip Design for Automotive ADAS CNN Applications in 22nm FDSOI. That title is long enough already, but...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where all the wire segments in a bus are on different metal layers? Did you ever think about interactively routing a bus on two metal layers at the same time, for example M1 and M3, to gain productivity and achieve tighter spacing than would be possible on a single metal layer?

Until now, interactive routing…

https://youtu.be/Frsw0YkUF5M

Coming from Marienplatz, Munich, Germany (camera Tracy Zhu)

Monday: 50 Years of Architecture (the first 20 years)

Tuesday: 50 Years of Architecture (the last 30 years)

Wednesday: RISC-V Workshop 2

Thursday: Open Source...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pushkar Patwardhan gives an overview of the instruction set architecture (ISA) and features of the Tensilica Fusion G6 DSP, a new DSP in the Fusion G DSP Family. He compares the features of the Fusion G3 and G6 DSPs, showing the increased capabilities and performance of the Fusion G6 DSP. After describing the typical radar processing pipeline, he outlines the features of the…