Accelerating Time to Market for AI Applications with PlanetSpark X7 Edge AI Box

As the number of IoT devices continue to grow, the ability to offer analytics and computing capabilities at the edge has become more crucial than ever before. However, designing such systems can be complex, causing potential delays that could put you at a disadvantage against your competitors. To help gain an edge over the competition with a faster time to market, consider the PlanetSpark Edge AI Box X7, which is powered by AMD ZynqTM UltraScale+TM MPSoCs. In our upcoming webinar, we will provide in-depth information on this deployment-ready embedded edge AI box, showcase successful use cases, and demonstrate how to harness its real-time analytics capabilities.

Come Join us for a comprehensive overview, which includes:

  • Solutions tailored for Smart Cities, Security, Retail, and industrial applications.
  • SodaVision sharing it’s real-life example of using the embedded AI box to capture memories for visitors at theme parks.
  • A closer look at Aupera’s analytics solutions, which can be seamlessly integrated into our production and deployment-ready AI box.

Don’t miss out on the chance to discover how this palm-sized, low-power, 8-channel edge AI appliance can help you leverage its adaptable architecture and support state-of-the-art AI models.

Only for registered webinar attendees!

Special Promotion Price for AI-Box will be announced during the event !

Shipment by 30 April 2023 (subject to stock availability)

Please contact: sales.enquiry@excelpoint.com.sg OR enquire@planetspark.io

Versal Architecture and Design Flow—AI Engine focus

Fees : Free

Venue : WebEx online

Trainer : Wikneswaran (Wicky) Pillai,  Director Consultant (Sysellent)

This training introduces the heterogeneous Versal platform and how different engines can be targeted for specific acceleration tasks. Vitis Unified Development Environment is introduced with focus on System linking. AI Engine Architecture is covered in detail and related designs flows are explained with example.

•  Versal Architecture Overview
•  Versal Platform and dataflows for Systems
•  Versal Design Flows
•  AI Engine Architecture
•  AI Engine Programming and C++ Intrinsics
•  Adaptive Dataflow Graph concepts and Library
•  AI Engine compilation
•  Example Design demonstration

Confirm your participation by registering below with your details. You will be sent a confirmation mail and on how to attend.

Ultra-low Power Processor and Non-Volatile Memory System Design Strategies for IoT, Handheld, and Wearable Applications

With the growth of IoT, handhelds, and wearables, there is a broad trend towards ultra-low power (ULP) applications, where the key focus is on extending battery life.

This webinar, hosted by Macronix and Ambiq, will discuss with attendees in more detail, what is driving the industry-wide shift towards ultra-low power, and what the microprocessor and non-volatile memory (NVM) are doing to go beyond normal boundaries to meet these market demands.

Attendees will learn:
 
  • The growth in the ULP microcontroller and NVM markets
  • Key market segments that will be the primary contributors to this growth
  • Why these market segments are driving the push towards low power
  • What microcontroller and NVM solution providers are doing to best address this market requirement
  • Design strategies being implemented to optimize power consumption

Audience members may arrive 15 minutes in advance of this time.

* This webinar will be available in India, ASEAN and ANZ regions, please note the time difference to attend the webinar. 

For further queries please contact

Kwan Woh, Chang – chang.kwan.woh@excelpoint.com.sg

ADI Tech Day: Tomorrow’s Innovation Made Possible Today

Join us for ADI Tech Day: Tomorrow’s Innovation Made Possible Today to witness potential made possible and learn how ADI’s technology and solutions are working to help you stay healthier, work better, drive safer, and connect more like never before.

Hear from our experts as they dive deeper into the technologies that are shaping the world around us and the future ahead of us.

SiC Power Solutions: Adopt SiC With Ease, Speed and Confidence

Microchip’s Silicon Carbide (SiC) power solutions provide the lowest system cost, fastest time to market and lowest risk. The solutions include the industry’s broadest and most flexible portfolio of SiC die, diodes, MOSFETs, gate drivers, customizable advanced power module design and packaging in a one-stop system shop for your analog products and peripherals, controllers and communication devices.

Features
 

1. Lowest System Cost

  • Unrivalled Ruggedness and Reliability
  • Device Redundancy Not Needed
  • Minimize System Components
2. Fastest to Market
 
  • Minimize System Development Time
  • Generate Revenue Growth
  • Accelerate Innovation

3. Lowest Risk

  • Highest Reliability
  • Maximize System Performance and Lifetime
  • Assured Long-Term Supply (No EOL)

For further queries please contact

Sreerag S – sreerag.s@excelpoint.com

Raj K – raj.k@excelpoint.com

Xilinx Kria Robotics Starter Kit

Hardware accelerate your next ROS 2 and machine vision designs

The Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit is the latest addition to the Kria portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs) and developer kits. Just as Kria SOMs, starter kits, and the connected app store have enabled thousands of AI and embedded software developers adopt adaptive computing for the first time in the past year without needing traditional FPGA tool flows, the KR260 enables roboticists and industrial developers with a familiar ROS 2-centric experience. Along the way, the KR260 spotlights the benefits of hardware acceleration for key vision, communications, and control functions across factories, farms, hospitals, and warehouse applications.

This webinar will cover:

  • New convolutional neural network (CNN) and non-CNN algorithm models
  • AI quantizer updates and model inspector
  • Expanded support for new frameworks and walkthrough of the in-framework inference flow WeGO
  • New functions for the edge-end and data center deep learning acceleration engines

A robot is a system of systems with diverse sensors and embedded processing nodes focused on core capabilities such as motion, navigation, perception, machine vision, communication and control — alongside more unique and application-specific requirements. With the new Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit and the Kria Robotics Stack (KRS), users can easily build a complete robotics system using a ROS 2-based environment with low-latency, deterministic communication connecting production-ready Kria SOM to Kria SOM. In the process, creating an adaptive system that can readily implement evolving and diverse algorithms as well as scale across multiple projects.

With new Kria SOM-based hardware and new apps, learn how to build production-ready, high-performance and adaptive vision-guided, AI-enabled, 5G wireless robotic and other industrial systems more easily than ever before by attending this webinar.

What’s New in Vitis AI 2.5

The Vitis™ AI development environment is a development platform for artificial intelligence (AI) inference on AMD-Xilinx hardware platforms such as FPGAs, adaptive SoCs, and Alveo™ data center accelerator cards.

In this webinar, we introduce new features in the latest 2.5 release, including:

  • New convolutional neural network (CNN) and non-CNN algorithm models
  • AI quantizer updates and model inspector
  • Expanded support for new frameworks and walkthrough of the in-framework inference flow WeGO
  • New functions for the edge-end and data center deep learning acceleration engines

We dive into key features, examples, and technical resources to help developers accelerate AI innovation on AMD-Xilinx hardware platforms. Attend this webinar to discover what’s new in the Vitis AI 2.5 and get tips and techniques from technical experts.

High Performance Audio Processors for Voice-Controlled Appliances in Smart Home

High-performance audio processors enable streamlined development of a variety of frontend voice-controlled devices used in Smart Home such as security cameras, smart appliances and sound-monitoring IoT sensors. In this webinar, you will learn about Microchip’s Timberwolf family of audio processors and how their innovative AcuEdge™ acoustic technology can deliver superior speech recognition performance in noisy environments over an extended detection range. You will then be introduced to various custom-built development tools that can help you jumpstart your product design. This will be followed by a live Q&A session.

Program:

  • Introduce Microchip and Timberwolf history.
  • Market analysis of voice-controlled devices
  • Technical features of Timberwolf family of audio processors
  • Applications
  • Development tools and evaluation board
  • Demonstration
  • Questions and Answers (“Q&A”) session

For further queries please contact

Steven Li – steven.li@excelpoint.com.sg

Chia Hun Piau – chia.hun.piau@excelpoint.com.sg

Introduction to ZYNQ UltraScale – Design tools and Building Simple Petalinux System

Webinar I - ZYNQ Ultrascale MPSoC architecture overview, Designing with IP Integrator, Build a system and export the hardware to Vitis.

Date   |   30th August, 2022

Time   |  1-2 P.M. VIC/NSW, 3-4 P.M. NZ

The Webinar will provide an overview of the AMD Xilinx ZYNQ Ultrascale plus architecture and family. 

This is followed by an introduction to designing using the Vivado IP integrator.

We will then create and customize a MPSoC system using Vivado and IP Integrator , build and implement the FPGA design, and perform the hardware handoff for further software.  

Webinar II - Application of the hardware system designed using Vitis. The webinar will showcase how to build bare metal applications and interact with system peripherals and monitor AXI bus transactions.

Date   |  2nd September, 2022

Time   | 1-2 P.M. VIC/NSW, 3-4 P.M. NZ

In this Webinar, we will, over the course of approximately one hour, provide an introduction to Vitis SDK. Then using the hardware designed in Webinar session I, we will build and run a bare-metal application with Vitis SDK on the MPSoC’s Application Processor Unit and the  R5 processor unit.

This will then set us up nicely for the third Webinar.

Webinar III - Using a system designed in session 1, we build an embedded Linux system using Peta Linux, boot it and enable functions like Ethernet

Date   | 7th September, 2022

Time   | 1-2 P.M. VIC/NSW, 3-4 P.M. NZ

In this Webinar, we will, over the course of approximately one hour, provide an introduction to Petalinux.

Following this, we build an embedded Linux system based on the hardware designed in Webinar I (used in the previous two webinars).
Then we will boot Linux on the hardware designed.

For further queries please contact jamie.pegg@excelpoint.com

ams-OSRAM Technical Forum on Optical Technology

ams-OSRAM invites you to join their inaugural technical forum on optical technology following the one year anniversary of ams and OSRAM merger. In this forum, learn about the latest optical technology that brings together innovations from the fields of sensing, light source and visualisation. You will be introduced to an extensive range of optical sensing products and their applications in the market – from consumer electronics to automobile, and industrial. As a market leader in optical sensing technology, ams-OSRAM strives to help their customers find the most innovative solution for their product design needs.