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The future of FPGAs

  After the wave of acquisitions, we are entering an era of heterogeneous data processing platforms. This platform will include SmartNIC, multi-core processors and hardware accelerators. Users will have to choose a complete solution instead of a mashup. Intel, AMD and Nvidia will provide a complete computing platform, including their own proprietary accelerators and smart chips. The benefits of this may be easier deployment and better integration, but choosing each of the best options will no longer be feasible, such as choosing Xilinx FPGAs , Intel Xeon processors and Nvidia GPUs . For Intel and AMD, it will be difficult to promote FPGAs in the field of deep learning, and other platforms will appear under their own brands. Perhaps FPGAs will be mainly used in their basic markets (networks and telecommunications, such as vRAN and 5G), while GPU, asic and other platforms will be promoted for deep learning. The main advantage of FPGAs is programmability and can support custom archite...

Two giants have been accepted one after another, where is the future of FPGA

In 2015, Intel acquired Altera for $16.7 billion. And just this year AMD officially acquired Xilinx, which is an important milestone for the FPGA field , because Xilinx and Altera are the main suppliers in FPGA. After the two major acquisitions, the industry began to have huge concerns about the future of FPGAs. To The main goal of AMD's acquisition of Xilinx is to build an industry-leading high-performance computing company. According to AMD, "in the various growth markets where Xilinx has established a leading position, it will significantly expand the breadth of AMD's product portfolio and customer set." "But what is the main market Xilinx currently leads?   Alveo, VERSAL  和  Vitis AI Xilinx released a powerful FPGA platform called Alveo three years ago. Alveo is the first FPGA accelerator card originally developed by Xilinx to compete with GPU. Prior to this, Xilinx was mainly developing FPGA chips  and relied on other vendors to provide FPGA cards. With the ...

Osram launches sustainable development signage lighting system to make lighting smarter and greener(2)

  Smarter systems lead to more efficient lighting   As another big scene in the application of lighting products , city night scene plays a good role in improving city night scene and living environment. However, illumination in night scenes is also a double-edged sword. When urban lighting is excessive, it will also disrupt the normal biological clock, which will have adverse effects on people, animals, plants and the environment, resulting in light pollution. osram, powerful integrated LED logo lighting module OPTOTRONIC ® series drive power supply and lighting control system to build "digital light box" overall solutions, to achieve more intelligent lighting applications: the "box" to set the brightness of the lighting control system, using different brightness, in different time period or light boxes and other lighting scene common access lighting control system, build linkage, the background can be controlled lighting system combination.   For example, osram li...

Osram launches sustainable development signage lighting system to make lighting smarter and greener(1)

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  Osram has launched an LED signage lighting module - BackLED® M CP G4 Upgrade (A). The new signage lighting system USES "halogen-free" materials to focus on public infrastructure and rail transit space applications to ensure public safety and environmental health. At the same time, the "digital light box" integrated solution consisting of LED signage lighting module, OPTOTRONIC® series drive power supply and lighting control system is also launched simultaneously, so as to better bring environmental protection, efficient and intelligent lighting applications for special applications such as public infrastructure and rail transit subway.   Osram  LED signage lighting module products covering BackLED® and BoxLED® have been adhering to the German quality, and with its unique patent technology, professional light control technology is widely used in the world. The release of BackLED® M CP G4 Upgraded version (A) integrates "safety" and "wisdom", fro...

What is a microcontroller? What is a full plate motor?

  I n order to enhance everyone's understanding of motor, let more people understand the relevant technical principles. This paper will introduce the micro control motor and the full disc motor.   1 、 Micro control motor   Micro control motor is a kind of small power rotary motor with specific functions.   The control motor is used as executive element, detecting element and calculating element in control system. From the working principle, there is no essential difference between micro control motor and ordinary motor, but the function is different. The common motor has high power, which focuses on the starting, running and braking performance indexes of the motor, while the output power of the control motor is small, which focuses on the control accuracy, response speed and operation reliability of the motor. At present, there are many kinds of micro controlled motors produced at home and abroad,   The following describes the basic working principle and use ch...

China Media: Apple, Qualcomm and Mediatek influence the performance of AiP module platform board suppliers

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  With the construction of 5G around the world, 5G is poised for rapid development in 2020, digiTimes reported. More and more manufacturers are joining in the battle for the 5G industry. Insiders believe that AiP module, which plays an important role in mmWave transmission, will see more definite growth next year, and relevant platform board suppliers such as Jingbuk, Xinxing and Nanpower will benefit. It is reported that Apple is the first manufacturer to introduce AiP module on a large scale in the current market. It is said that each new generation of iPhone will import more and more AiP in the next few years. The report pointed out that in addition to Taiwan manufacturers, the main suppliers of AiP board, South Korea's Samsung Motor and LG Innotek are also the main force, of which Samsung Motor is currently Qualcomm's most dependent source of AiP board supply. It is also reported that Mediatek has prepared the new AiP product, which is expected to be officially released in ...

Solving Data-centric Challenges with Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs

  With the constant expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), ongoing rollout of 5G broadband networks, evolving IT strategies and roadmaps continue to include edge computing. This emphasis led Gartner to project in its article, What Edge Computing Means for Infrastructure and Operations Leaders, that enterprise edge computing will grow from 10 percent to 75 percent by 2025 through micro-data centers and cellular networks. Data-centric applications, such as 5G and edge computing need to process larger amounts of data, creating the need for advanced processing technology. Data needs to travel across the entire IT infrastructure, from application to network core to data center and back. Because each end-user application is different, system architects need customizable, flexible data processing to optimize cost and energy efficiency at the point of data generation.  Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs   combine FPGA flexibility with application-specific integrate...

Grab the 5G business opportunity,Microchip resistors are on the horizon

  Optimistic about the future demand for high-density circuit integration, The State Giant (2327) has recently expanded capital expenditure on the ultra-small chip resistor  RC0075 (0.3mm×0.15mm, smaller than 01005), and predicted that the smaller chip resistor RC0050 will be put into production next year to capture 5G business opportunities.   Industry, said RC0075 has an area of only 01005, half of the apple has been adopted, the current main production by Japanese, with the miniature semiconductor process, get a larger variety of product technology breakthrough, make the device more frivolous short, chip resistors also follow up toward miniaturization trend, mobile phone consumption based on a 700 chip resistor, RC0075 has a future; The next generation RC0050 is a quarter of the size of 01005 and is so tiny and sophisticated that it can make the phone lighter and thinner, and even the equipment associated with the back-end typing will have to be upgraded.   Accord...

The use of wireless charging technology

  Wireless charging industry chain   The wireless charging industry chain is divided into receiving and transmitting parts, and the upstream and downstream industry chain of receiving end is divided into chip, magnetic material, transmission coil, module manufacturing and system integration. The transmitter is divided into chip, coil module and scheme design.   The receiver chip  and system integration design link have high technical barriers and high profits (about 30% of the profits of the wireless charging industry chain), and the main customers are mobile phone terminals. The development status is very similar to that of fingerprint identification three years ago. Only IDT has shipping experience, broadcom is the official customization for Apple, while other companies including TI and Qualcomm have failed to seize the opportunity of the first wave of the industry and have not yet become the supplier of any mobile phone manufacturers. On the contrary, a group of d...

Mainstream technology of Wireless Charging Technology (2)

  3. A4WP Standard   A4WP stands for Alliance for Wireless Power, a Wireless charging Alliance created by Qualcomm, Samsung and The aforementioned Powermat. The alliance, which also includes members such as Ever Win Industries, Gill Industries, Peiker Acustic and SK Telecom, aims to establish technical standards and industry dialogue for wireless charging devices for electronic products, including portable electronics and electric vehicles.   4. INPOFi technology   INPOFi (an invisible Power field) wireless charging is a new kind of wireless charging technology. Its wireless charging series products adopt intelligent electric transmission wireless charging technology, which has the characteristics of no radiation, high electric energy conversion efficiency, weak thermal effect and so on.   INPOFi intelligent Radiation-free Technology compared with other existing wireless charging technologies, iNPOFi has no radiation and USES an electric field pulse mode, which ...

Basic principles and mainstream technologies of wireless charging technology

  The basic principle :   Electromagnetic induction type   An alternating current of a certain frequency in the primary coil, resulting in a certain current in the secondary coil by electromagnetic induction, thereby transferring energy from the transmission to the receiving end. At present, the most common charging solution USES electromagnetic induction. In fact, the electromagnetic induction solution does not have too much mystery in the technical realization. Byd, a local Company in China, applied for the patent of contactless inductive charger as early as December 2005, and used electromagnetic induction technology.   Magnetic resonance   Consists of energy to send equipment, and energy receiving equipment, is currently studying a technique is when two device to adjust to the same frequency, or on a specific frequency resonance, they can exchange each other's energy, by the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) professor of physics at Marin Soljacic l...