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| Microsoft Real-Time AI Project Leverages FPGAs
At Hot Chips 2017 last week Microsoft unveiled a new deep learning acceleration platform, code-named Project Brainwave. The system performs real-time AI. Real-time here means the system processes requests as fast as it receives them, with ultra-low latency. Real-time AI is becoming increasingly important as cloud infrastructures process live data streams, whether they be search queries, videos, sensor streams, or interactions with users.
The Project Brainwave system is built with three main layers: a high-performance, distributed system architecture; a hardware DNN engine synthesized onto FPGAs; and a compiler/runtime for low-friction deployment of trained models. Project Brainwave leverages the massive FPGA infrastructure that Microsoft has been deploying over the past few years. By attaching high-performance FPGAs directly to Microsoft's datacenter network, they can serve DNNs as hardware microservices, where a DNN can be mapped to a pool of remote FPGAs and called by a server with no software in the loop.
Kintex Ultrascale FPGA-Based Cards Target Radar and Comms
Pentek has introduced the newest member of the Jade family of high-performance data converter XMC modules based on the Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale FPGA. The Model 71141 is a 6.4 GHz dual channel analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converter with programmable digital down-converters (DDCs) and digital up-converters (DUCs). The Model 71141 is suitable for connection to IF or RF signals for large wide-band communications or radar system applications including: - Satellite communications (SATCOM)
- Phased array radar, SIGINT and ELINT
- Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
- Time-of-flight and LIDAR distance measurement
- RF sampling software defined radio (SDR)
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Mouser Provides Microsemi PolarFire FPGA Evaluation Kit Mouser Electronics is now offering the PolarFire Evaluation Kit from Microsemi, which allows designers to evaluate the highly regarded PolarFire FPGA product family. The flash-based PolarFire FPGAs deliver 100K to 500K logic elements at up to 50% lower power consumption than equivalent SRAM-based FPGAs, as well as best-in-class security and reliability. 
The Microsemi PolarFire Evaluation Kit, available to order from Mouser Electronics, provides a robust hardware design platform based on a 300K logic element PolarFire FPGA with DDR4, DDR3, and SPI-flash memory. The onboard FPGA integrates reliable non-volatile FPGA fabric, 12.7 Gbps transceivers, 1.6 Gbps inputs and outputs (I/Os), best-in-class-performance, hardened security IP, and crypto processors. The silicon features power optimization with the lowest static power for mid-range FPGAs, while the Flash Freeze mode yields best-in-class standby power. CONTINUE READINGWin a Free Subscription to Circuit Cellar Magazine  Enter this drawing for a free subscription to Circuit Cellar! Drawing ends at midnight this coming Friday, September 1st. Circuit Cellar is the premier media resource for professional engineers, academic technologists, and other electronics technology decision makers worldwide involved in the design and development of embedded processor- and microcontroller-based systems across a broad range of applications. And congratulations to last week's raffle winner. Stephen M. won a free book, Advanced Control Robotics by Hanno Sanders. Thanks to all who participated! Xilinx Provides Design Platform For Scalable Storage
At the Flash Memory Summit earlier this month in Santa Clara, CA, leading FPGA vendor Xilinx rolled out the Xilinx NVMe-over-Fabrics reference design. It provides designers a flexible platform to enable scalable storage solutions and integrate custom acceleration functions into their storage arrays. The reference design eliminates the need for a dedicated x86 processor or an external NIC,  thus creating a highly integrated, reliable, and cost-effective solution. The NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVM-oF) reference platform is implemented on the Fidus Sidewinder card which supports up to 4 NVMe SSDs, and has a Xilinx ZU19EG Ultrascale+ MPSoC device. The reference platform is delivered with the required software drivers. CONTINUE READING Embedded Connectivity and Tech Conference 2017 Whether it's embedded hardware design or the Internet of Things (IoT),
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