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“The OpenVX Standard API: Computer Vision for the Masses,” a Presentation from the Khronos Group

Kiriti Nagesh Gowda, Senior Member of the Technical Staff at AMD and Chair of the OpenVX Working Group at the Khronos Group, presents the “OpenVX Standard API: Computer Vision for the Masses?” tutorial at the May 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Today, a great deal of effort is wasted in optimizing… “The OpenVX Standard API: Computer …

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New AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series Workstation Graphics Cards Deliver Advanced Technologies and Exceptional Performance for Mainstream Professional Workflows

AMD Radeon PRO W7600 workstation graphics card delivers 2X higher TFLOPS performance1 and 1.5X higher maximum total data rate for displays2 than the previous generation SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced two new additions to the AMD Radeon™ PRO W7000 Series product line: the AMD Radeon™ PRO …

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New ROCm 5.6 Release Brings Enhancements and Optimizations for AI and HPC Workloads

AMD to Add ROCm Support on Select RDNA 3 GPUs this Fall AI is the defining technology shaping the next generation of computing. In recent months, we have all seen how the explosion in generative AI and LLMs are revolutionizing the way we interact with technology and driving significantly more demand for high-performance computing in …

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AMD Unveils the Most Powerful AMD Radeon PRO Graphics Cards, Offering Unique Features and Leadership Performance to Tackle Heavy to Extreme Professional Workloads

The AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series are the first professional graphics cards built on the advanced AMD chiplet design, and the first to offer DisplayPort 2.1, providing 3X the maximum total data rate compared to DisplayPort 1.41 Flagship AMD Radeon PRO W7900 graphics card delivers 1.5X faster geomean performance2 and provides 1.5X more memory than …

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AMD Highlights Future of High-Performance and Adaptive Computing During Opening Keynote of CES 2023

AMD CEO and partners including Microsoft, HP, Lenovo, Magic Leap and Intuitive Surgical showcase AMD technologies advancing AI, hybrid work, gaming, healthcare, aerospace and sustainable computing Unveils new mobile CPUs and GPUs, including first x86 PC CPU with dedicated AI engine and new 3D stacked desktop processors with leadership gaming performance, and previews leadership AI …

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VVDN Technologies Demonstration of Its Various Reference Platforms

Kalpeshkumar Chauhan, Senior Director and Technology Evangelist for Vision and IoT at VVDN Technologies, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the December 2022 Edge AI and Vision Innovation Forum. Specifically, Chauhan demonstrates the company’s various reference platforms, developed in partnership with other Alliance Member companies. VVDN has strong relationships …

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AMD Unveils World’s Most Advanced Graphics Cards, Built on Groundbreaking AMD RDNA 3 Architecture with Chiplet Design

Highly efficient AMD RDNA 3 architecture delivers world-class performance, and features new unified compute units, world’s fastest interconnect, second-generation AMD Infinity Cache technology, new display and media engines, and more AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series graphics cards deliver up to 1.7X higher 4K gaming performance than the previous flagship graphics cards LAS VEGAS, Nev – …

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Avnet Demonstration of Low-cost, High Performance Machine Vision Using AMD’s Zynq Ultrascale+

Tom Curran, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Curran demonstrates Avnet’s new ZUBoard 1CG, a low-cost, flexible development platform for AMD’s new Zynq Ultrascale+ ZU1CG MPSoC device. The ZUBoard is running a face detection application, leveraging both …

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AMD Demonstration of Kria Robotics Perception

Jasvinder Khurana, Staff System Design Engineer at AMD, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Khurana demonstrates the Kria Robotics Perception stack application. The demonstrated ROS 2 Perception Node-accelerated application implements a subset of image_pipeline, which is one of the most popular packages in …

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AMD Demonstration of the Kria App Store

Quenton Hall, Senior Technical Marketing Manager for AI and ML at AMD, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Hall demonstrates the company’s Kria App Store. The Kria App Store offers a powerful platform to host and market your unique edge applications, algorithms, and …

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AMD Demonstration of Kria Machine Vision

Drew Emery, Technical Sales Engineer at AMD, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Emery demonstrates one of the applications included with the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit. The application implements an industrial camera design using a Sony IMX SLVS-EC sensor and the widely …

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AMD Joins New PyTorch Foundation as Founding Member To Promote Broader Adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Capabilities

AMD will provide expertise with diverse compute engine capabilities and open software, to help drive leadership performance for accelerated workloads SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 09/12/2022 – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced it is joining the newly created PyTorch Foundation as a founding member. The foundation, which will be part of the non-profit Linux Foundation, will …

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AMD Launches Ryzen 7000 Series Desktop Processors with “Zen 4” Architecture: the Fastest Core in Gaming

New AMD Socket AM5 platform combines with world’s first 5nm desktop PC processors to deliver powerhouse performance for gamers and content creators AUSTIN, Tex. – 08/29/2022 – Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) revealed the Ryzen™ 7000 Series Desktop processor lineup powered by the new “Zen 4” architecture, ushering in the next era of high performance for gamers, …

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“Introducing the Kria Robotics Starter Kit: Robotics and Machine Vision for Smart Factories,” a Presentation from AMD

Chetan Khona, Director of Industrial, Vision, Healthcare and Sciences Markets at AMD, presents the “Introducing the Kria Robotics Starter Kit: Robotics and Machine Vision for Smart Factories” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. A robot is a system of systems with diverse sensors and embedded processing nodes focused on core capabilities such as …

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“Programming Vision Pipelines on AMD’s AI Engines,” a Presentation from AMD

Kristof Denolf, Principal Engineer, and Bader Alam, Director of Software Engineering, both of AMD, present the “Programming Vision Pipelines on AMD’s AI Engines” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. AMD’s latest generation of Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms (ACAP), Versal AI Core and Versal AI Edge, include an array of powerful AI Engines alongside …

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“Is Your AI Data Pre-processing Fast Enough? Speed It Up Using rocAL,” a Presentation from AMD

Rajy Rawther, PMTS Software Architect at AMD, presents the “Is Your AI Data Pre-processing Fast Enough? Speed It Up Using rocAL” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. AMD’s rocAL (ROCm Augmentation Library) is an open-source library for decoding and augmenting images, video and audio to accelerate the loading and preprocessing of data for …

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FRAMOS Launches FSM-IMX547 Camera Accessory for the AMD-Xilinx Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit

Munich (Germany), June 14, 2022 – FRAMOS, a leading global supplier of custom vision solutions and imaging components, and AMD-Xilinx Certified Partner, has launched the FSM-IMX547 Camera Accessory for the recently introduced Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit from AMD. The FSM-IMX547 is capable of streaming high-quality colour or monochrome images to the Kria KR260 robotics …

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AMD Robotics Starter Kit Kick-Starts the Intelligent Factory of the Future

Kria KR260 Starter Kit enables rapid development of hardware-accelerated applications for robotics and industrial automation Delivers nearly 5X productivity gain, up to 8X better performance/watt and 3.5X lower latency compared to competitive GPU-based solutions SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 05/17/2022 – Today AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the Kria™ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit, the latest addition to the …

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AMD Announces Three New Radeon RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards and First Games Adding Support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0

Three new models feature faster game clocks, faster GDDR6 memory, and enhanced software and firmware compared to previous-generation products, and deliver exceptional performance-per-watt based on AMD RDNA™ 2 architecture Initial list of games adding future support for AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution (FSR) 2.0 include Farming Simulator 22, Forspoken, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and others; DEATHLOOP expected …

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AMD Completes Acquisition of Xilinx

Transaction creates high-performance and adaptive computing leader AMD to offer industry’s strongest portfolio of leadership CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs to address approximately $135 billion market opportunity SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 02/14/2022 – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Xilinx in an all-stock transaction. The acquisition, originally announced on …

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AMD Presents Latest High-Performance Computing Technologies in 2022 Product Premiere Livestream

Powerful new AMD Ryzen and Radeon products deliver leadership performance and gaming experiences for notebook and desktop PCs SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 01/04/2022 – Today in its 2022 Product Premiere livestream, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced new products that deliver leadership productivity, content creation, and gaming experiences. During the livestream, AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa …

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AMD Unveils New Ryzen Mobile Processors Uniting “Zen 3+” core with AMD RDNA 2 Graphics in Powerhouse Design

Ryzen 6000 Series processors offer huge generational uplift with up to 11% more single threaded performance, up to 28% more multi-threaded performance, and up to 2x more graphics performance compared to the Ryzen 5000 Series New AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D desktop processors with powerful 3D V-Cache technology elevate gaming performance SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 01/04/2022 …

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AMD Unveils New Power-Efficient, High-Performance Mobile Graphics for Premium and Thin-and-Light Laptops, and New Desktop Graphics Cards

Expanded AMD Radeon RX 6000M Series mobile graphics offer 20 percent faster performance on average than current lineup1; New AMD Radeon RX 6000S Series mobile graphics deliver world-class, high-performance gaming for next-gen thin-and-light laptops AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT desktop graphics cards, starting at $199 SEP USD, make incredible 1080p gaming accessible to more gamers; …

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AMD Demonstration of MIVisionX and rocAL, Two of the Company’s Computer Vision and Machine Learning Solutions

Pavel Tcherniaev, Senior Software Development Engineer at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Tcherniaev demonstrates MIVisionX and rocAL, two of the company’s computer vision and machine learning solutions. AMD’s MIVisionX is a set of comprehensive computer vision and machine …

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Xilinx Demonstration of Visual Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Fusion on the Kria SOM

Akshay Jain, System Design Engineer at Xilinx, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Jain demonstrates visual machine learning and natural language processing fusion on the Kria SOM. This demo shows the Kria K26 SOM running both vision machine learning (ML) and natural language …

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Xilinx Demonstration of the Out-of-the-Box Experience with the Kria KV260 Starter Kit

Karan Kantharia, Product Line Manager at Xilinx, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Kantharia demonstrates the out-of-the-box experience with the Kria KV260 Starter Kit and its companion basic accessory pack. Kantharia shows you just how quickly (in under a half hour) and easily …

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Xilinx Demonstration of an X-ray Classification Solution for COVID-19 and Pneumonia Detection

Quenton Hall, AI Architect at Xilinx, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Hall demonstrates an x-ray classification solution for COVID-19 and pneumonia detection. Spline.AI is collaborating with Amazon Web Services and Xilinx to deliver an open-source, open-model, x-ray classification solution for COVID-19 and …

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AMD Unveils Workload-Tailored Innovations and Products at The Accelerated Data Center Premiere

AMD launches AMD Instinct™ MI200 series accelerators, previews 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors with AMD 3D V-Cache, and provides new details on expanded set of next-generation EPYC™ processors powered by “Zen 4” and “Zen 4c” CPU cores Meta adopts EPYC™ CPUs for its data center SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 11/08/2021 – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) held …

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New AMD Instinct™ MI200 Series Accelerators Bring Leadership HPC and AI Performance to Power Exascale Systems and More

With new AMD CDNA™ 2 architecture, AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators deliver ground-breaking 4.9x advantage in HPC performance1 compared to competing data center accelerators, expediting science and discovery MI200 series accelerators are first multi-die GPU, first to support 128GB of HBM2e memory, and deliver a substantial boost for applications critical to the foundation of science …

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Xilinx Showcases New Solutions and Technologies for Software and Hardware Developers

Week one unveils software developer kit for intelligent video analytics applications, an expanded video and imaging IP portfolio and developer design contest Sep 07, 2021 – SAN JOSE, Calif. – (Xilinx Adapt) – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive computing, today unveiled powerful new solutions and IP for its rapidly growing software, AI, and …

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“OpenVX 1.3: An Open Standard for Computer Vision Software Acceleration,” a Presentation from AMD

Kiriti Nagesh Gowda, Staff Engineer at AMD, presents the “OpenVX 1.3: An Open Standard for Computer Vision Software Acceleration” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. OpenVX is a popular computer vision and machine learning API standard developed by the Khronos Group to be a novel, open and royalty-free standard for cross-platform acceleration. In …

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“An Introduction to Data Augmentation Techniques in ML Frameworks,” a Presentation from AMD

Rajy Rawther, PMTS Software Architect at AMD, presents the “Introduction to Data Augmentation Techniques in ML Frameworks” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Data augmentation is a set of techniques that expand the diversity of data available for training machine learning models by generating new data from existing data. This talk introduces different …

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“A New Adaptive Module for Vision AI at the Edge,” a Presentation from Xilinx

Chetan Khona, Director of the Industrial, Vision, Healthcare and Science Markets at Xilinx, presents the “New Adaptive Module for Vision AI at the Edge” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Xilinx Kria System-on-Modules (SOMs) provide a secure, production-ready multi-core Arm and FPGA platform, including memories, power management, and Yocto or Ubuntu Linux to …

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Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories Award Codeplay Software to Further Strengthen SYCL Support Extending the Open Standard Software for AMD GPUs

Enabling the SYCL open standard on Frontier will provide another common programming model for heterogeneous compute environments across the DOE labs. LEMONT, IL, and OAK RIDGE, TN, and EDINBURGH, UK, June 17, 2021 – Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has awarded Codeplay a contract implementing the oneAPI DPC++ …

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Xilinx Extends Edge Compute Leadership with World’s Highest AI Performance-per-Watt

New Versal AI Edge ACAP series delivers AI-enabled intelligence for automotive, robotics, healthcare, and aerospace applications June 09, 2021 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time –SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive computing, today introduced the Versal™ AI Edge series, designed to enable AI innovation from the edge to the endpoint. With …

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AMD Unveils RDNA 2-Based Mobile Graphics, New AMD Advantage Laptops, Broadly Compatible Upscaling Technology and More at Computex 2021

AMD Radeon RX 6000M Series Mobile Graphics provide a generational performance leap of up to 1.5X, powering the next generation of premium gaming laptops from ASUS, HP, Lenovo, MSI and other leading OEMs Open-source, cross-platform AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution leverages optimized spatial upscaling technology, delivering up to 2.5X higher performance than native resolution gaming in …

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AMD Showcases Industry-Leading Innovation Across the High-Performance Computing Ecosystem at COMPUTEX 2021

Keynote highlights company’s growing momentum, strong and expanding set of partners, and breakthrough AMD technologies powering gaming, PCs and the data center SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 05/31/2021 – Today at COMPUTEX 2021, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased its latest computing and graphics technology innovations to accelerate the high-performance computing ecosystem, spanning gaming, PCs and the data …

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Xilinx Introduces Kria Portfolio of Adaptive System-on-Modules for Accelerating Innovation and AI Applications at the Edge

Production-ready embedded boards and low-cost developer kit accelerate design cycles for rapid deployment; initial products target vision AI applications in smart cities and factories April 20, 2021–SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today introduced the Kria™ portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs), production-ready small form factor embedded boards that enable rapid deployment in edge-based …

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Xilinx Expands into New Applications with Cost-Optimized UltraScale+ Portfolio for Ultra-Compact, High-Performance Edge Compute

Enhanced scalability with low power and cost in new form factors enable UltraScale+ devices for numerous growth market opportunities ranging from IoT to networking Mar 16, 2021–SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive computing, today announced the company has expanded its UltraScale+™ portfolio for markets with new applications that require ultra-compact …

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AMD Unveils AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Graphics Card, Delivering Exceptional 1440p PC Gaming Experiences

– Harnessing breakthrough AMD RDNA™ 2 gaming architecture, high-performance AMD Infinity Cache and 12GB of high-speed GDDR6 memory, new AMD Radeon™ RX 6700 XT graphics cards provide up to 2X higher performance in select titles than current installed base of older-generation graphics cards1– – Powerful blend of raytracing with AMD FidelityFX2compute and rasterized effects elevates …

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AMD Announces World’s Best Mobile Processors¹ In CES 2021 Keynote

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO Processors, designed for the most demanding professional workloads, coming to retail channel SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 01/12/2021 – Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the full portfolio of AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile Processors, bringing the highly-efficient and extremely powerful “Zen 3” core architecture to the laptop market. New AMD Ryzen 5000 …

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“Parallelizing Machine Learning Applications in the Cloud with Kubernetes: A Case Study,” a Presentation from AMD

Rajy Meeyakhan Rawther, PMTS Software Architect in the Machine Learning Software Engineering group at AMD, presents the “Parallelizing Machine Learning Applications in the Cloud with Kubernetes: A Case Study” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. In this talk, Rawther presents techniques for obtaining the best inference performance when deploying machine learning applications in …

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“Democratizing Computer Vision and Machine Learning with Open, Royalty-Free Standards: OpenVX,” a Presentation from AMD

Kiriti Nagesh Gowda, staff engineer in the Machine Learning and Computer Vision Group at AMD and chair of the Khronos OpenVX working group, presents the “Democratizing Computer Vision and Machine Learning with Open, Royalty-Free Standards: OpenVX” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. OpenVX is a mature computer vision and machine learning API standard …

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“Vitis and Vitis AI: Application Acceleration from Cloud to Edge,” a Presentation from Xilinx

Vinod Kathail, Fellow and Chief Architect at Xilinx, presents the “Vitis and Vitis AI: Application Acceleration from Cloud to Edge” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. Xilinx SoCs and FPGAs provide significant advantages in throughput, latency, and energy efficiency for production deployments of compute-intensive applications when compared to CPUs and GPUs. Over the …

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AMD Announces World’s Fastest HPC Accelerator for Scientific Research

AMD Instinct™ MI100 accelerators revolutionize high-performance computing (HPC) and AI with industry-leading compute performance First GPU accelerator with new AMD CDNA architecture engineered for the exascale era SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 11/16/2020 – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the new AMD Instinct™ MI100 accelerator – the world’s fastest HPC GPU and the first x86 server GPU …

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AMD Unveils AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Processors with Enhanced Performance and Power Efficiency

AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Series processors deliver double the cores1, up to 2x the performance-per-watt2 and an estimated 15 percent IPC uplift3 over the previous generation SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 11/10/2020 AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today launched a new product in its high-performance Embedded processor family, the AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V2000 Series processor. Built on the innovative 7nm …

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“Accelerating Time to an Image Processing Prototype,” a Presentation from Avnet

Adam Taylor, Founder and Principal Consultant at Adiuvo Engineering and Training, along with Dan Rozwood, Engineer, and Kevin Keryk, Software Engineering Manager and Machine Learning Specialist, both of Avnet, present the “Accelerating Time to an Image Processing Prototype” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. In this Over-the-Shoulder session, you will learn how you …

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AMD to Acquire Xilinx, Creating the Industry’s High Performance Computing Leader

Strategic transaction strengthens AMD’s industry-leading technology portfolio Expands AMD’s rapidly growing data center business Xilinx, the No. 1 provider of adaptive computing solutions, increases AMD TAM to $110 billion Immediately accretive to AMD margins, cash flow and EPS All stock transaction with combined enterprise value of approximately $135 billion SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Oct. 27, 2020 …

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Subaru Selects Xilinx to Power New-Generation EyeSight System

New ADAS technology debuts in the all-new Subaru Levorg for the Japanese market AUG 19, 2020–SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that its technology is powering the new version of Subaru’s vision-based advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS), EyeSight. Integrated into the all-new Subaru Levorg, the new EyeSight system will provide advanced features …

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“The Xilinx AI Engine: High Performance with Future-proof Architecture Adaptability,” a Presentation from Xilinx

Nick Ni, Director of Product Marketing at Xilinx, presents the “Xilinx AI Engine: High Performance with Future-proof Architecture Adaptability” tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. AI inference demands orders- of-magnitude more compute capacity than what today’s SoCs offer. At the same time, neural network topologies are changing too quickly to be addressed by …

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2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors Set New Standard for the Modern Datacenter with Record-Breaking Performance and Significant TCO Savings

AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series processors set 80 performance world records1, provide 2X the performance compared to the previous generation2 and deliver an estimated 25% to 50% lower TCO than competitive offerings3 Google and Twitter join growing list of customers adopting AMD EPYC processors SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 08/07/2019 – At a launch event today, AMD …

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Xilinx Expands Alveo Portfolio with Industry’s First Adaptable Compute, Network and Storage Accelerator Card Built for Any Server, Any Cloud

First low-profile PCIe Gen 4 card delivers dramatic improvements in throughput, latency and power efficiency for critical data center workloads SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today expanded its Alveo data center accelerator card portfolio with the launch of the Alveo™ U50. The …

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AMD Unleashes Ultimate PC Gaming Platform with Worldwide Availability of AMD Radeon RX 5700 Series Graphics Cards and AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Desktop Processors

Introducing world’s first PCIe® 4.0 ready desktop CPUs and GPUs, designed to push the limits of gamers, enthusiasts, and content creators SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 07/07/2019 – Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the global availability of its new leadership PC gaming platform based on AMD Radeon™ RX 5700 series graphics cards and 3rd Gen AMD …

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Xilinx Hits Milestone with First Customer Shipments of Versal ACAP

Built on 7nm process technology, Versal is the industry’s first adaptive compute acceleration platform SAN JOSE, Calif., June 18, 2019 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced that it has shipped Versal™ AI Core series and Versal Prime series devices to multiple tier one customers through the company’s …

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2019 Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: Xilinx (Cloud Solutions)

Xilinx's AI Platform is the 2019 Vision Product of the Year Award Winner in the Cloud Solutions category. Xilinx’s AI Platform provides a comprehensive set of software and IP to enable hardware accelerated AI inference applications. AI vision applications, which rely on convolutional neural networks, are a major target for the Xilinx AI Platform. The …

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AMD Expands Embedded Product Family, Adds Design Wins and Customers, with New Ryzen Embedded R1000

The AMD Ryzen™ Embedded R1000 SoC provides a new class of performance for the embedded industry with 3X performance per watt vs. previous AMD R-Series SoC1 and 4X performance per dollar compared to the competition2 TAIPEI, Taiwan – 04/16/2019 – At the Taiwan Embedded Forum, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the Ryzen™ embedded product family is …

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2018 Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: Xilinx (Cloud Technologies)

Xilinx's Machine Learning Suite is the 2018 Vision Product of the Year Award Winner in the Cloud Technologies category. The Xilinx Machine Learning Suite provides tools for accelerating vision applications in the cloud. The key innovation of the Xilinx Machine Learning Suite is that it enables cloud users of machine learning inference to get an …

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“Bad Data, Bad Network, or: How to Create the Right Dataset for Your Application,” a Presentation from AMD

Mike Schmit, Director of Software Engineering for computer vision and machine learning at AMD, presents the “Bad Data, Bad Network, or: How to Create the Right Dataset for Your Application” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. When training deep neural networks, having the right training data is key. In this talk, Schmit explores …

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“From Feature Engineering to Network Engineering,” a Presentation from ShatterLine Labs and AMD

Auro Tripathy, Founding Principal at ShatterLine Labs (representing AMD), presents the “From Feature Engineering to Network Engineering” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. The availability of large labeled image datasets is tilting the balance in favor of “network engineering”instead of “feature engineering”. Hand-designed features dominated recognition tasks in the past, but now features …

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“Leveraging Edge and Cloud for Visual Intelligence Solutions,” a Presentation from Xilinx

Salil Raje, Senior Vice President in the Software and IP Products Group at Xilinx, presents the “Leveraging Edge and Cloud for Visual Intelligence Solutions” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. For many computer vision systems, a critical decision is whether to implement vision processing at the edge or in the cloud. In a …

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“Achieving 15 TOPS/s Equivalent Performance in Less Than 10 W Using Neural Network Pruning,” a Presentation from Xilinx

Nick Ni, Director of Product Marketing for AI and Edge Computing at Xilinx, presents the “Achieving 15 TOPS/s Equivalent Performance in Less Than 10 W Using Neural Network Pruning on Xilinx Zynq” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Machine learning algorithms, such as convolution neural networks (CNNs), are fast becoming a critical part …

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“Exploiting Reduced Precision for Machine Learning on FPGAs,” a Presentation from Xilinx

Kees Vissers, Distinguished Engineer at Xilinx, presents the “Exploiting Reduced Precision for Machine Learning on FPGAs” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Machine learning algorithms such as convolutional neural networks have become essential for embedded vision. Their implementation using floating-point computation requires significant compute and memory resources. Research over the last two years …

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“The OpenVX Computer Vision and Neural Network Inference Library Standard for Portable, Efficient Code,” a Presentation from AMD

Radhakrishna Giduthuri, Software Architect at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), presents the “OpenVX Computer Vision and Neural Network Inference Library Standard for Portable, Efficient Code” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. OpenVX is an industry-standard computer vision and neural network inference API designed for efficient implementation on a variety of embedded platforms. The API …

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Computer Vision in Surround View Applications

The ability to "stitch" together (offline or in real-time) multiple images taken simultaneously by multiple cameras and/or sequentially by a single camera, in both cases capturing varying viewpoints of a scene, is becoming an increasingly appealing (if not necessary) capability in an expanding variety of applications. High quality of results is a critical requirement, one …

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Visual Intelligence Opportunities in Industry 4.0

In order for industrial automation systems to meaningfully interact with the objects they're identifying, inspecting and assembling, they must be able to see and understand their surroundings. Cost-effective and capable vision processors, fed by depth-discerning image sensors and running robust software algorithms, continue to transform longstanding industrial automation aspirations into reality. And, with the emergence …

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Software Frameworks and Toolsets for Deep Learning-based Vision Processing

This article provides both background and implementation-detailed information on software frameworks and toolsets for deep learning-based vision processing, an increasingly popular and robust alternative to classical computer vision algorithms. It covers the leading available software framework options, the root reasons for their abundance, and guidelines for selecting an optimal approach among the candidates for a …

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“OpenCV on Zynq: Accelerating 4k60 Dense Optical Flow and Stereo Vision,” a Presentation from Xilinx

Nick Ni, Senior Product Manager for SDSoC and Embedded Vision at Xilinx, presents the "OpenCV on Zynq: Accelerating 4k60 Dense Optical Flow and Stereo Vision" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. OpenCV libraries are widely used for algorithm prototyping by many leading technology companies and computer vision researchers. FPGAs can achieve unparalleled compute …

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Cloud-versus-Edge and Centralized-versus-Distributed: Evaluating Vision Processing Alternatives

Although incorporating visual intelligence in your next product is an increasingly beneficial (not to mention practically feasible) decision, how to best implement this intelligence is less obvious. Image processing can optionally take place completely within the edge device, in a network-connected cloud server, or subdivided among these locations. And at the edge, centralized and distributed …

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“Caffe to Zynq: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Inference Performance in Less Than 5 Watts,” a Presentation from Xilinx

Vinod Kathail, Distinguished Engineer and leader of the Embedded Vision team at Xilinx, presents the "Caffe to Zynq: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Inference Performance in Less Than 5 Watts" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. Machine learning research is advancing daily with new network architectures, making it difficult to choose the best CNN algorithm …

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Camera Interfaces Evolve to Address Growing Vision Processing Needs

Before a still image or video stream can be analyzed, it must first be captured and transferred to the processing subsystem. Cameras, along with the interfaces that connect them to the remainder of the system, are therefore critical aspects of any computer vision design. This article provides an overview of camera interfaces, and discusses their …

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Deep Learning with INT8 Optimization on Xilinx Devices

This is a reprint of a Xilinx-published white paper which is also available here (1 MB PDF). Xilinx INT8 optimization provide the best performance and most power efficient computational techniques for deep learning inference. Xilinx's integrated DSP architecture can achieve 1.75X solution-level performance at INT8 deep learning operations than other FPGA DSP architectures. ABSTRACT The …

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“Semantic Segmentation for Scene Understanding: Algorithms and Implementations,” a Presentation from Auviz Systems

Nagesh Gupta, Founder and CEO of Auviz Systems, presents the "Semantic Segmentation for Scene Understanding: Algorithms and Implementations" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit. Recent research in deep learning provides powerful tools that begin to address the daunting problem of automated scene understanding. Modifying deep learning methods, such as CNNs, to classify pixels …

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“How Computer Vision Is Accelerating the Future of Virtual Reality,” a Presentation from AMD

Allen Rush, Fellow at AMD, presents the "How Computer Vision Is Accelerating the Future of Virtual Reality" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit. Virtual reality (VR) is the new focus for a wide variety of applications including entertainment, gaming, medical, science, and many others. The technology driving the VR user experience has advanced …

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Optimizing Computer Vision Applications Using OpenCL and GPUs

The substantial parallel processing resources available in modern graphics processors makes them a natural choice for implementing vision-processing functions. The rapidly maturing OpenCL framework enables the rapid and efficient development of programs that execute across GPUs and other heterogeneous processing elements within a system. In this article, we briefly review parallelism in computer vision applications, …

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Accelerating Machine Learning: Implementing Deep Neural Networks on FPGAs

This introductory article discusses implementing machine learning algorithms on FPGAs, achieving significant performance improvements at much lower power. Newly available middleware IP, together with the SDAccel programming environment, enables software developers to implement convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in C/C++, leveraging an OpenCL platform model. Machine Learning in the Cloud: A Tipping Point The transformation of …

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OpenCL Streamlines FPGA Acceleration of Computer Vision

The substantial resources available in modern programmable logic devices, in some cases including embedded processor cores, makes them strong candidates for implementing vision-processing functions. The rapidly maturing OpenCL framework enables the rapid and efficient development of programs that execute across programmable logic fabric and other heterogeneous processing elements within a system. As mentioned in the …

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“Trade-offs in Implementing Deep Neural Networks on FPGAs,” a Presentation from Auviz Systems

Nagesh Gupta, CEO and Founder of Auviz Systems, presents the "Trade-offs in Implementing Deep Neural Networks on FPGAs" tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit. Video and images are a key part of Internet traffic—think of all the data generated by social networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram—and this trend continues to grow. …

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“Understanding Adaptive Machine Learning Vision Algorithms and Implementing Them on GPUs and Heterogeneous Platforms,” a Presentation from AMD

Harris Gasparakis, OpenCV Manager at AMD, presents the "Understanding Adaptive Machine Learning Vision Algorithms and Implementing them on GPUs and Heterogeneous Platforms" tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit. Machine learning algorithms are pervasive in computer vision: from object detection to object tracking to full scene recognition, generative or discriminative learning dominates the space, …

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“Implementing Eye Tracking for Medical, Automotive and Headset Applications,” a Presentation From Xilinx and EyeTech Digital Systems

Dan Isaacs, Director of Smarter Connected Systems at Xilinx, and Robert Chappell, Founder of EyeTech Digital Systems, co-present the "Implementing Eye Tracking for Medical, Automotive and Headset Applications" tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit. When humans communicate with each other, we get important cues from watching each other’s eyes. Similarly, machines can gain …

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Smart Exterior Cameras Enhance Vehicle Safety, Security

This article was originally published at John Day's Automotive Electronics News. It is reprinted here with the permission of JHDay Communications. Cameras installed in various locations around a vehicle exterior, in combination with cost-effective, powerful and energy-efficient processors, deliver numerous convenience and protection benefits. The advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) market is one of the …

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Smart Exterior Cameras Enhance Vehicle Safety, Security

This article was originally published at John Day's Automotive Electronics News. It is reprinted here with the permission of JHDay Communications. Cameras installed in various locations around a vehicle exterior, in combination with cost-effective, powerful and energy-efficient processors, deliver numerous convenience and protection benefits. The advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) market is one of the …

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Xilinx Expands 20 nm Kintex UltraScale Portfolio for the Most Demanding Data Center Acceleration, Video and Signal Processing Applications

Kintex UltraScale KU115 FPGA is now shipping SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 4, 2014 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the expansion of its 20 nm portfolio with shipment of the Kintex® UltraScaleTM KU115 FPGA. As the flagship of the Kintex UltraScale family, the KU115 offers the highest DSP count available in a single programmable …

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Practical Computer Vision Enables Digital Signage with Audience Perception

This article was originally published at Information Display Magazine. It is reprinted here with the permission of the Society of Information Display. Signs that see and understand the actions and characteristics of individuals in front of them can deliver numerous benefits to advertisers and viewers alike.  Such capabilities were once only practical in research labs …

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High-Performance Machine Vision Systems Using Xilinx 7 Series Technology

This is a reprint of a Xilinx white paper also found here (PDF). Xilinx and its Alliance partner Sensor to Image have created hardware, software, IP, and whole turn-key system solutions for the growing high-performance Machine Vision market. By Mark Timmons Xilinx, Inc. and Werner Feith Sensor to Image, GmbH Abstract The Machine Vision market …

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Industrial Automation and Embedded Vision: A Powerful Combination

A version of this article was originally published at InTech Magazine. It is reprinted here with the permission of the International Society of Automation. In order for manufacturing robots and other industrial automation systems to meaningfully interact with the objects they're assembling, as well as to deftly and safely move about in their environments, they …

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May 2014 Embedded Vision Summit Technical Presentation: “Computer Vision Powered by Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA),” Harris Gasparakis, AMD

Harris Gasparakis, Ph.D., OpenCV manager at AMD, presents the "Computer Vision Powered by Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)" tutorial at the May 2014 Embedded Vision Summit. Gasparakis reviews the HSA vision and its current incarnation though OpenCL 2.0, and discusses its relevance and advantages for Computer Vision applications. HSA unifies CPU cores, GPU compute units, and …

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May 2014 Embedded Vision Summit Technical Presentation: “Programming Novel Recognition Algorithms on Heterogeneous Architectures,” Kees Vissers, Xilinx

Kees Vissers, Distinguished Engineer at Xilinx, presents the "Programming Novel Recognition Algorithms on Heterogeneous Architectures" tutorial at the May 2014 Embedded Vision Summit. The combination of heterogeneous systems, consisting of processors and FPGA, is a high-performance implementation platform for image and vision processing. One of the significant hurdles in leveraging the compute potential was the …

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October 2013 Embedded Vision Summit Product Demonstration: Avnet Electronics (Xilinx)

Mario Bergeron, Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet Electronics, demonstrates a Canny edge detection OpenCV algorithm running on the MicroZed board and image processing algorithms running on the ZedBoard (both boards based on the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC and co-developed with fellow Alliance member company Xilinx)  at the October 2013 Embedded Vision Summit East. For the …

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April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit Technical Presentation: “Vision-Based Automotive Driver Assistance Systems: Challenges and Approaches,” Paul Zoratti, Xilinx

Paul Zoratti, Automotive Driver Assistance System Architect at Xilinx, presents the "Vision-Based Automotive Driver Assistance Systems: Challenges and Approaches" tutorial within the "Embedded Vision Applications" technical session at the April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit.

April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit Technical Presentation: “Challenges and Opportunities in Accelerating OpenCV,” José Alvarez, Xilinx

José Alvarez, Engineering Director for Video Technology at Xilinx, presents the "Challenges and Opportunities in Accelerating OpenCV" tutorial within the "Developing Vision Software, Accelerators and Systems" technical session at the April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit. Computer vision continues to see increased adoption across a wide variety of applications. The industry's trend towards the incorporation of …

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The Embedded Vision Revolution

Semiconductor and software advances are enabling medical devices to derive meaning from digital still and video images. By Brian Dipert Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance Senior Analyst, BDTI and Kamran Khan Technical Marketing Engineer, Xilinx This article was originally published in the May 2013 edition of MD+DI (Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry) Magazine. It is reprinted …

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An Architecture for Compute-Intensive, Custom Machine Vision

By Tom Catalino Vice President Critical Link, LLC and Asheesh Bhardwaj DSP Senior Applications Engineer Texas Instruments This is a reprint of a Texas Instruments-published white paper, which is also available here (560 KB PDF). Introduction Machine vision technology is growing in adoption, and it has been and will continue to be deployed in a …

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Using Xilinx FPGAs to Solve Endoscope System Architecture Challenges

By Jon Alexander, Technical Marketing Manager for ISM (Industrial, Scientific, Medical) Markets Xilinx Corporation Image enhancement functions – noise reduction, edge enhancement, dynamic range correction, digital zoom, scaling, etc – are key elements of many embedded vision designs, in improving the ability for downstream algorithms to automatically extract meaning from the image. Interface flexibility and …

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September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit Presentation: “Image Processing for Object Recognition and Tracking,” Dan Isaacs, Xilinx, and Michael Fawcett, iVeia

Dan Isaacs, Director of Processing Product Marketing at Xilinx, and Michael Fawcett, Chief Technology Officer at iVeia, presents the "Image Processing for Object Recognition and Tracking" tutorial, part of the "Embedded Vision Applications and Algorithms" technical session at the September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit. Topics discussed included trends in image processing for embedded vision applications, …

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Designing High-Performance Video Systems in 7 Series FPGAs with the AXI Interconnect

By Sateesh Reddy Jonnalagada and Vamsi Krishna Xilinx Corporation Embedded vision applications deal with a lot of data; a single 1080p60 (1920×1080 pixel per frame, 60 frames per second) 24-bit color video stream requires nearly 3 Gbps of bandwidth, and 8-bit alpha (transparency) or 3-D depth data further amplifies the payload by 33% in each …

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HD Video Processing using Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 EPP for Intelligent Video Systems

Rapidly emerging applications in the area of embedded vision require ability to do real-time processing of one or more streams of HD video at high frame rates. In this demonstration, Xilinx's Navanee Sundaramoorthy, Product Manager for Processing Platforms, shows how you can use the Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform with dual ARM Cortex-A9 processors and programmable …

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Image Color Conversion and Formatting Using FPGAs

Converting images from one color domain to another is a common and often misunderstood operation in embedded vision processing. Image formats and color spaces vary when information is interchanged among processing domains. FPGAs provide a flexible, fast and scalable way of converting images using readily available IP cores. This video tutorial from José Alvarez, Video …

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Introduction to Video and Image Processing System Design Using FPGAs

By José Alvarez Video Technology Engineering Director Xilinx Corporation José Alvarez, Video Technology Engineering Director at Xilinx Corporation, introduces the basic steps in the development of embedded vision systems: overall system definition, building IP processing pipelines using simulation models to speed up evaluation, using Targeted Design Platforms for rapid exploration and implementation, and establishing a …

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Embedded Vision: FPGAs’ Next Notable Technology Opportunity

By Brian Dipert Editor-In-Chief Embedded Vision Alliance Senior Analyst BDTI This article was originally published in the First Quarter 2012 issue (PDF) of the Xilinx Xcell Journal. It is reprinted here with the permission of Xilinx. A jointly developed reference design validates the potential of Xilinx’s Zynq device in a burgeoning application category. By Brian …

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Implementing an Image Signal Processing Pipeline using FPGAs

By José Alvarez Video Technology Engineering Director Xilinx Corporation José Alvarez, Video Technology Engineering Director at Xilinx Corporation, follows up his premier video in this tutorial series with the discussion of a flexible ISP (image signal processing) implementation using readily available dynamic processing blocks in an FPGA.

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Automotive Driver Assistance Systems: Using the Processing Power of FPGAs

By Paul Zoratti Driver Assistance Senior System Architect Automotive Division Xilinx Corporation This is a reprint of a Xilinx-published white paper which is also available here (344 KB PDF). In the last five years, the automotive industry has made remarkable advances in driver assistance (DA) systems that truly enrich the driving experience and provide drivers …

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Using FPGAs to Interface to and Process Data from Image Sensors

By José Alvarez Video Technology Engineering Director Xilinx Corporation José Alvarez, Video Technology Engineering Director at Xilinx Corporation, discusses the benefits of using FPGAs to interconnect with diverse-interface image sensors, and to process the data coming from those sensors.

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Jeff Bier has a conversation with Jose Alvarez to gain insights into R&D and Engineering for Embedded Vision at Xilinx.

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