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Audio SoCs Prove Vital for Always-on Voice Activation Platforms and Edge Device AI

Audio SoCs Prove Vital for Always-on Voice Activation Platforms and Edge Device AI

As voice-activated digital assistant devices continue to gain popularity, AI- and audio-focused SoCs evolve.


News Apr 29, 2019 by Majeed Ahmad
Silicon Labs Releases Next-Gen Wireless Gecko IoT Platform with Eyes on Scaling the Cloud

Silicon Labs Releases Next-Gen Wireless Gecko IoT Platform with Eyes on Scaling the Cloud

SiLabs' new IoT platform aims to provide what they think designers need most: tools and flexible, secure SoCs.


News Apr 22, 2019 by Mark Hughes
Intel Addresses Data Center Needs with Field Programmable Gate Array Series

Intel Addresses Data Center Needs with Field Programmable Gate Array Series

The 3D System In Package (SiP) FPGAs are also targeted for embedded and network applications.


News Apr 04, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
embedded world 2019 Begins in Nuremberg, Focuses on “Embedded Intelligence” for AI

embedded world 2019 Begins in Nuremberg, Focuses on “Embedded Intelligence” for AI

The Embedded World Conference 2019 Begins this week, highlighting the rapid advances made in this dynamic technology.


News Feb 26, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
Smart Homes to Smart Cities: Building Automation Roundup

Smart Homes to Smart Cities: Building Automation Roundup

While IoT devices find more ways into our homes, building designers are largely taking a wait-and-see attitude towards automation. Have a look at some trends and cutting-edge innovations in building automation.


News Feb 18, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
Artificial Intelligence Grew Faster, Better, and More Controversial in 2018. What’s Ahead in 2019?

Artificial Intelligence Grew Faster, Better, and More Controversial in 2018. What’s Ahead in 2019?

Let's look back at the last year in AI and forward to what may be in store for 2019.


News Feb 04, 2019 by Baker Lawley
Altium Announces New Cloud-Based Design Environment with Eye Towards Collaboration: Altium 365

Altium Announces New Cloud-Based Design Environment with Eye Towards Collaboration: Altium 365

Altium today announced Altium 365, a cloud-based design platform intended to bring manufacturing and sourcing into a hardware design environment.


News Oct 04, 2018 by Mark Hughes
BrainChip to Release Biologically Inspired Neurmorphic System-on-a-Chip for AI Acceleration

BrainChip to Release Biologically Inspired Neurmorphic System-on-a-Chip for AI Acceleration

BrainChip has announced the Akida Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC), the first production-volume artificial intelligence accelerator utilizing Spiking Neural Networks (SNN).


News Sep 12, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
How Design Kits Simplify IoT’s Last Mile to the Cloud

How Design Kits Simplify IoT’s Last Mile to the Cloud

A sneak peek of two IoT platforms allows developers to save time and cost while they streamline connectivity to the cloud services.


News Aug 31, 2018 by Majeed Ahmad
How Cloud-Based CAE Is Changing Prototyping: An Interview with Ian Campbell, CEO of OnScale

How Cloud-Based CAE Is Changing Prototyping: An Interview with Ian Campbell, CEO of OnScale

The days of manual prototyping may be numbered, but so could prohibitively expensive IP licenses.


News Aug 27, 2018 by Karissa Manske
The Quantum Race: Roundup on Quantum Cryptosecurity, Programming Languages, and Development

The Quantum Race: Roundup on Quantum Cryptosecurity, Programming Languages, and Development

The space race of the cold war saw the US and Russia develop a wide range of aerospace technologies. But a new race is about to begin, mostly among corporations, and the winner will unlock the power of the quantum computing realm.


News Jul 31, 2018 by Robin Mitchell
Would IBM’s Project Debater Win the AI Box Experiment?

Would IBM’s Project Debater Win the AI Box Experiment?

This past week IBM’s Project Debater, an AI system, debated with Dan Zafrir and Noa Ovadia, humans, on the topics of government subsidy of space exploration, and telemedicine. Each participant provided an opening statement, a rebuttal, and concluding remarks. What was remarkable about Project Debater was that it was able to develop coherent arguments on topics and make jokes.


News Jun 28, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Making the Cloud More Powerful: Xilinx FPGAs and Adaptive Workload Acceleration

Making the Cloud More Powerful: Xilinx FPGAs and Adaptive Workload Acceleration

Historically, FPGAs have been challenging to work with. To combat that reputation, Xilinx developed programmable devices that simplify—and accelerate—the implementation of customized hardware development.


Accelerating Embedded Vision Integration with Xilinx SoCs and the reVISION Stack

Accelerating Embedded Vision Integration with Xilinx SoCs and the reVISION Stack

SoCs with programmable logic are an essential element of real-time embedded vision systems. Designers can capitalize on the power and efficiency of Xilinx's Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC devices to implement their designs using Avnet's Embedded Vision Kits and the Xilinx reVISION stack.


NXP and Microsoft Collaborations Focus on Enhancing IoT Security

NXP and Microsoft Collaborations Focus on Enhancing IoT Security

NXP Semiconductors, a Dutch manufacturer of semiconductor chips and SoCs, has recently announced a few new collaborations with Microsoft that will enhance Industrial IoT applications with it’s hardware suite.


News Mar 18, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Robots and AI: Our New Lawyers, Police, and Dentists?

Robots and AI: Our New Lawyers, Police, and Dentists?

Increasingly more capable robots and artificial intelligence systems are capable of even more complex jobs that normally would require years of post-secondary training for a human to do. Here are a few examples in law, law enforcement, and dentistry.


News Mar 02, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
The Founding of IBM to Deep Blue’s Chess Victory: The February 2018 Hardware History Roundup

The Founding of IBM to Deep Blue’s Chess Victory: The February 2018 Hardware History Roundup

February has been an exciting month in hardware history—everything from the founding of one of the most successful computing companies in the world, to the first time a computer wins a game of chess against a champion, here is this month’s hardware history roundup.


News Feb 10, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Developing an Open Source Voice Assistant: Interview with Mycroft AI’s Steve Penrod

Developing an Open Source Voice Assistant: Interview with Mycroft AI’s Steve Penrod

A look at Mycroft, a machine-learning AI home voice assistant—that's open source.


News Feb 09, 2018 by Kate Smith
The Everything-as-a-Service Business Model: Making AI, Drones, and Robotics More Accessible

The Everything-as-a-Service Business Model: Making AI, Drones, and Robotics More Accessible

The "as-a-Service" model is changing the way innovators use new technologies—sometimes by giving access to new technologies that would be out of their grasp otherwise.


News Jan 21, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Q# Is for Quantum Computing: A New Programming Language from Microsoft

Q# Is for Quantum Computing: A New Programming Language from Microsoft

Microsoft recently released a preview of a new programming language that will be used specifically for quantum computing programming: Q# (pronounced ‘Q-sharp’).


News Dec 16, 2017 by Chantelle Dubois