Hackaday

Learn FPGA With This Persistence Of Vision Hack

Everybody wants to give FPGA development a try and here’s a great way to get into it. You can build your own Persistence of Vision display using a $30 dev board. It’s a fun project, and you’ll learn ...
The Next Platform

Microsoft Extends FPGA Reach From Bing To Deep Learning

After three years of research into how it might accelerate its Bing search engine using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Microsoft came up with a scheme that would let it lash Stratix V devices ...
Hackaday

Hands-On With New Arduino FPGA Board: MKR Vidor 4000

Hackaday brought you a first look the Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 when it announced. Arduino sent over one of the first boards so now we finally have our hands on one! It’s early and the documentation is ...
Datacenter Dynamics

Microsoft previews FPGA-based machine learning service for Azure

Microsoft is set to capitalize on its work on integrating field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) into servers for machine learning workloads, by launching a specialized Azure cloud service. Project ...
EDN

FPGA learning made easy with a virtual university program

Altera University aims to affordably and easily introduce students to the world of FPGAs and digital logic programming tools by unveiling the curriculum, tutorials, and lab exercises that bridge the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Deep Learning Hardware: FPGA vs. GPU

FPGAs or GPUs, that is the question. Since the popularity of using machine learning algorithms to extract and process the information from raw data, it has been a race between FPGA and GPU vendors to ...
The Next Platform

FPGA Based Deep Learning Accelerators Take on ASICs

Over the last couple of years, the idea that the most efficient and high performance way to accelerate deep learning training and inference is with a custom ASIC—something designed to fit the specific ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Applying Machine Learning to EDA, FPGA Design Automation Tools

A technical paper titled “Application of Machine Learning in FPGA EDA Tool Development” was published by researchers at the University of Texas Dallas. “With the recent advances in hardware ...
EDN

A Breakthrough in FPGA-Based Deep Learning Inference

Mipsology’s Zebra Deep Learning inference engine is designed to be fast, painless, and adaptable, outclassing CPU, GPU, and ASIC competitors. I recently attended the 2018 Xilinx Development Forum (XDF ...