How cloud computing is now delivering efficiencies for IC design
A Mentor-Microsoft-AMD pathfinder demonstrates the potential benefits of cloud-based physical verification.
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An open-source framework for greater flexibility in machine-learning development
Exchange frameworks are emerging to make it easier for neural-network developers to swap between development environments.
‘Even the software guys are starting to talk in milliwatts’
System-level power is the next frontier for a power-intent standard – or rather a collection of them – being developed by a partnership between Accellera, Si2 and the IEEE.
Applying agile techniques to IC design
How agile methodologies can be applied to personal and team practice in IC design, including for developing cloud accelerators at Microsoft
OpenCL: games technology comes to us all
OpenCL aims to open up the performance of graphics processors to other applications. It is also one more way in which compilation is being moved to runtime to make it easier to move code dynamically across heterogeneous platforms.
Power under control
In late 2001, Nick Baker and other members of the Ultimate TV team at Microsoft learned that the company was ending development work on the product. For a still youthful engineer whose curriculum vitae already took in some ill-fated early-days video card work at Apple and the short-lived 3DO games console, Baker could have been […]
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