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What Is the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT)?

What Is the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT)?

A smart guitar. A vibrating wearable metronome. An LED wristband that reacts to your concert experience. It's all part of a growing movement known as the Internet of Musical Things.


Xilinx Helps Samsung Push 5G Commercial With Its Network-on-a-Chip

Xilinx Helps Samsung Push 5G Commercial With Its Network-on-a-Chip

What do these two powerhouses plan to do with Xilinx's adaptive compute acceleration platform?


News Apr 17, 2020 by Cabe Atwell
Bringing 5G Back to the Hardware: An Overview of RF Front-End Modules

Bringing 5G Back to the Hardware: An Overview of RF Front-End Modules

Who will be the masterminds behind the 5G "magic?" And how will RF front-end SiP come into play?


News Apr 16, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Overcoming CAN Design Challenges: How to Easily Terminate CAN Signals

Overcoming CAN Design Challenges: How to Easily Terminate CAN Signals

This article explores and provides answers to some common questions associated with CAN design and implementation challenges — in particular, signal termination in CAN systems.


The FCC Releases New Wi-Fi 6 Rules—And NXP’s Wi-Fi 6 Portfolio Is Ready to Meet Them

The FCC Releases New Wi-Fi 6 Rules—And NXP’s Wi-Fi 6 Portfolio Is Ready to Meet Them

What does Wi-Fi 6, including its new rules, mean for designers?


News Apr 13, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
FPGAs Are More Accessible to Non-FPGA Specialists Than Ever Before

FPGAs Are More Accessible to Non-FPGA Specialists Than Ever Before

FPGAs pose a major drawback: they require the expertise of highly specialized (and scarce) engineers trained to work with FPGAs. Three companies have set out to change that.


News Mar 26, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
How Fast Can a Neural Network Chip Recognize Images? TU Wien Says Mere Nanoseconds

How Fast Can a Neural Network Chip Recognize Images? TU Wien Says Mere Nanoseconds

Researchers at TU Wien are at last addressing the need for instantaneous image recognition.


News Mar 18, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
“Any Core, Any Cloud” : Microchip Releases a Host of Dev Tools for Fast IoT Prototyping

“Any Core, Any Cloud” : Microchip Releases a Host of Dev Tools for Fast IoT Prototyping

Complex IoT environments can slow down the prototyping process. Microchip wants to pick up the pace with cloud-agnostic solutions.


News Mar 11, 2020 by Hannah DeTavis
Data Centers Are Overloaded. The Inventor of FPGAs Is Swooping In With a “Comprehensive” SmartNIC

Data Centers Are Overloaded. The Inventor of FPGAs Is Swooping In With a “Comprehensive” SmartNIC

The FPGA-based SmartNIC arena—including giants like Microsoft and Intel—just got more interesting. Enter the inventor of FPGAs.


News Mar 04, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Five Highlights of Intel’s New 5G Portfolio

Five Highlights of Intel’s New 5G Portfolio

Intel recently announced its latest portfolio of hardware and software to bring the company to the forefront of the 5G technology race.


News Feb 25, 2020 by Lisa Boneta.
Nordic Semiconductor’s RF System-on-Chip Supports Standard and Proprietary Protocols

Nordic Semiconductor’s RF System-on-Chip Supports Standard and Proprietary Protocols

This article briefly reviews some important principles of power-supply design before discussing the features of the nRF5340.


News Feb 22, 2020 by Robert Keim
Understanding Local Minima in Neural-Network Training

Understanding Local Minima in Neural-Network Training

This article discusses a complication that can prevent your Perceptron from achieving adequate classification accuracy.


Incorporating Bias Nodes Into Your Neural Network

Incorporating Bias Nodes Into Your Neural Network

This article shows you how to add bias values to a multilayer Perceptron implemented in a high-level programming language such as Python.


5G Network Reach Grows in the UK with Several New Cities Gaining Access

5G Network Reach Grows in the UK with Several New Cities Gaining Access

Sky Mobile is the latest British network to take the inevitable plunge and bring 5G connectivity to UK customers.


News Feb 04, 2020 by Luke James
How to Increase the Accuracy of a Hidden Layer Neural Network

How to Increase the Accuracy of a Hidden Layer Neural Network

In this article, we’ll perform some classification experiments and gather data on the relationship between hidden-layer dimensionality and network performance.


How Many Hidden Layers and Hidden Nodes Does a Neural Network Need?

How Many Hidden Layers and Hidden Nodes Does a Neural Network Need?

This article provides guidelines for configuring the hidden portion of a multilayer Perceptron.


Training Datasets for Neural Networks: How to Train and Validate a Python Neural Network

Training Datasets for Neural Networks: How to Train and Validate a Python Neural Network

In this article, we’ll use Excel-generated samples to train a multilayer Perceptron, and then we’ll see how the network performs with validation samples.


Signal Processing Using Neural Networks: Validation in Neural Network Design

Signal Processing Using Neural Networks: Validation in Neural Network Design

This article explains why validation is particularly important when we’re processing data using a neural network.


One Month Into 2020, What’s New With 5G?

One Month Into 2020, What’s New With 5G?

Just a few weeks into the new year, many companies are progressing 5G to make 2020 the "year of 5G."


News Jan 21, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
How to Create a Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network in Python

How to Create a Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network in Python

This article takes you step by step through a Python program that will allow us to train a neural network and perform advanced classification.