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EE Times Current · 28 Feb 2020 · 41m

AI in practice: 2 real uses of AI described

What this episode covers

EE Times editors discuss the impact of the coronavirus on major tech conferences like Embedded World and Mobile World Congress, highlighting the resilience of the industry. They cover Cartesium's technology for on-device machine learning training on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers, Soitec's development of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) and compound material wafers for 5G, and Ferric's ferromagnetic thin-film inductors for power conversion. The episode also features Texas Instruments' Jacinto 7 processor for automotive AI and concludes with a historical look at magnetic core memory and the first NYC subway.

AI in practice

Where this conversation describes AI being used to build or deliver a product. Part of the AI in practice tracker.

Engineering & simulationCartesium Studio

The tool allows embedded developers to create and link a machine learning library directly into their program, enabling machine learning training and inference to run locally on the microcontroller without needing cloud data scientists.

“we are announcing today a studio, which is a development environment that we let any embedded developers create a machine learning library inside the studio, and then they can link the library into their program, and they get the machine learning inside the microcontroller.”

Joel Rubino · Hear it at 11:10

Engineering & simulationTI Jacinto 7 processor

The processor runs multiple deep learning neural networks concurrently for automotive applications, specifically identifying vehicle classes and detecting parking spots for automated valet parking.

“One is a 68 deep convolutional general network. The other is 48 deep network. All 3 running at the same time, in the DSP, and rendered. And together, so essentially 2 different applications running concurrently in the same SOC.”

Rama Venkata Subramanian · Hear it at 31:33

Most relevant to

early-stage companies, companies scaling up and large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Cartesium, ARM, Soitec, Ferric, TSMC, Texas Instruments, IBM, Intel
Products
Jacinto 7, C7X DSP, DRAM 1103
Materials
Silicon-on-Insulator, Gallium Nitride, Silicon Carbide

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