Definition in One Sentence 5 nm smartphone SoC: The last generation FinFET + high-k metal gate, converting the entire power budget that improves performance by 15% into extended battery life. Why It Matters • Compared to 7 nm, transistor density increases by 70%, power consumption for the same tasks decreases by 25%, and battery life … Read more
Documenting the debugging process of a frontend engineer involved in the 2.5GHz A72 backend: A fellow from the 2.5GHz A72 training camp asked: What are these PBUF_DATA? What is PBUF_CLK? Are all IO PORT BUF called this? Why should they be deleted? Answer: The IO buffer was added in the synthesis script, so the backend … Read more
Smartwatches have become familiar gadgets for most users today, and the entry price for such products is low enough that one can often buy mainstream models from leading brands for just a few hundred yuan. From the perspective of user habits, using smartwatches to check notifications, make calls, or track health metrics (especially heart rate, … Read more
Source: Technews At the 2005 WWDC, Steve Jobs announced an important plan: to move Mac from IBM’s PowerPC to Intel’s x86 architecture. However, at that time, Apple was also secretly working on two major projects: developing a tablet computer and a prototype phone that was still based on the iPod design but included communication features. … Read more
This project is a real project practical training, focusing on low-power UPF design. The backend parameters are as follows: Process: 12nm Frequency:2.5GHz Resources: 2000_0000 instances Flow: Partition Flow Partition Steps: Clock Structure Analysis: Reset Structure Analysis: Let’s compare the resources of A72 and A7. The number of A72 gates is 13 times that of A7! … Read more
This article is reprinted from the WeChat public account: FPGA Algorithm Engineer We all know that recently, the topics of chip design and manufacturing continue to occupy people’s conversations. The enemy’s pursuit has made us abandon our fantasies and fight back. In our work and life, whether we are in the upstream or downstream of … Read more
Israeli chip startup Hailo has launched three new visual AI chips designed for different use cases, unlike the Hailo-8. While the Hailo-8 has primarily been used as a vision processing co-processor in industrial edge boxes and aggregators, the Hailo-15 series is a SoC with an accelerator, CPU, and DSP aimed at IP cameras. Hailo will … Read more
The Allwinner H6 chip, launched in 2017, is a high-performance SoC aimed at the OTT, DVB, and IPTV markets. This SoC features a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU based on the ARM architecture, and its GPU is the ARM Mali T720, supporting OpenGL 3.1, DDR4, and EMMC 5.0. The chip’s performance has improved by 77% compared to … Read more
Produced by | Furui Microelectronics Overview of Virtualization 1.1 Drivers and Advantages Virtualization is a widely used technology that supports nearly all modern cloud computing and enterprise infrastructure. Developers can run multiple operating systems on a single machine based on virtualization capabilities, allowing software testing without risking damage to the primary computing environment. Virtualization brings … Read more
Source: Content reprinted from WeChat public account “Yushi Capital”, thank you. On September 13, 2020, Pacific Time, American graphics processing and artificial intelligence chip giant NVIDIA (NVDA US, no rating) announced on its official website plans to acquire the world’s largest processor core IP (Intellectual Property) supplier ARM Limited from Japan’s SoftBank and SoftBank Vision … Read more