Who Supplies AI Chips for Software-Defined Vehicles?

Who Supplies AI Chips for Software-Defined Vehicles?

With the arrival of high-level intelligent driving, smarter cars need to process larger amounts of images, videos, and other unstructured data. Traditional MCU chips cannot meet the computational demands, while AI chips can achieve fast, accurate, and efficient calculations. We focus on data from Horizon, where L3 level autonomous driving generates a data volume of … Read more

IC Terminology Overview (A-G)

IC Terminology Overview (A-G)

E Course Network Integrated Editing Integrated circuits (ICs) are a type of microelectronic device or component. By using a specific process, various components required in a circuit, such as transistors, resistors, capacitors, and inductors, are interconnected and fabricated on a small piece or several pieces of semiconductor wafers or dielectric substrates, and then encapsulated in … Read more

Understanding Microcontrollers: What is an MCU?

Understanding Microcontrollers: What is an MCU?

The MCU chip refers to the Microcontroller Unit (Microcontroller Unit; MCU), also known as a microcontroller or single-chip microcomputer. It appropriately reduces the frequency and specifications of the central processing unit and integrates memory, counters, USB, A/D conversion, UART, PLC, DMA, and other peripheral interfaces, even the LCD driver circuit, into a single chip, forming … Read more

Quality FPGA Self-Made IP and Open Source Websites

Quality FPGA Self-Made IP and Open Source Websites

1. OpenCores, the world’s largest FPGA open source website, contains various IP cores that have been verified by many users. Website address: https://opencores.org/ 2. FPGA 4 Fun, provides a wealth of articles on FPGA applications and practical project examples. Website address: http://www.fpga4fun.com/ 3. OpenHW Group, a non-profit organization, aims to promote and advance open-source hardware … Read more

From FPGA to ASIC: The Journey of AI Chip Design

From FPGA to ASIC: The Journey of AI Chip Design

Perhaps some team is designing an embedded inference engine for edge computing, or is furthering automotive vision processing, or perhaps they possess insights in the data center domain that can challenge NVIDIA and Google! However, amidst the broad performance demands, environments, and applications, AI accelerator architectures face unique challenges not only in design but also … Read more

Four Methods to Invoke FPGA Memory Units

Four Methods to Invoke FPGA Memory Units

First, what is XPM? Many people may not have heard of or used it. Its full name is Xilinx Parameterized Macros, which are Xilinx’s parameterized macros, similar to the instantiation and usage of primitives. You can check which XPMs can be instantiated in Vivado under Tools->Language Templates.  From the above image, it can be seen … Read more

Basic Structure of FPGA

Basic Structure of FPGA

How Hard Is It to Win a Backpack? Give It a Try! →_→ Long Press Recognition 【Topic】: Basic Structure of FPGA 【Author】: LinCoding 【Date】: 2016.12.13 【Statement】: Please indicate the source for reprints and citations Summary from “Altera FPGA/CPLD Design Basics, Second Edition”. Basic Structure of FPGA: The basic components of FPGA include: programmable I/O units, … Read more

A Review of High-Performance Programmable Data Plane Based on FPGA

Welcome to click the blue words and follow “Smart Journal IT“! Zhao Peng, Cheng Guang, Zhao Deyu Journal of Software Abstract The Programmable Data Plane (PDP) supports the offloading and acceleration of network applications, bringing revolutionary development opportunities to network applications. It also supports the rapid implementation and deployment of new protocols and services, promoting … Read more

AI Chip Acceleration! FPGA Breakthroughs in AI Computing Power

AI Chip Acceleration! FPGA Breakthroughs in AI Computing Power

High-performance computing chips have become one of the key factors in the competition for the digital economy and artificial intelligence, even determining the outcome of global computing power competition. What is a Computing Power Chip? A computing power chip is a special integrated circuit designed to provide powerful computing capabilities. As the core driving force … Read more

Understanding the Differences Between CPU, MCU, FPGA, and SoC

Understanding the Differences Between CPU, MCU, FPGA, and SoC

Source: Semiconductor Industry Alliance Currently, there are two types of civilizations in the world: one is the carbon-based civilization formed by human society, and the other is the silicon-based civilization composed of various chips—because almost all chips are made from single crystal silicon, the total number of chip systems far exceeds the number of humans … Read more