At one time Synaptics Inc. was best known for its interface products, including fingerprint sensors, touchpads, and display drivers for PCs and mobile phones. The company is now making a big push into the consumer IoT market as well as computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions at the edge, propelled by several acquisitions over the past several years. The company sees big opportunities in computer vision across all markets, and recently launched its edge-AI processors that target real-time computer vision and multimedia applications.
Astera Labs Aries Smart Retimers resolve signal integrity issues for high-performance server, storage, cloud and workload optimized systems
Avery PCIe and CXL Verification IP enabled Astera Labs to get to market faster
Tewksbury, MA., April 28, 2021 — Avery Design Systems, a leader in functional verification solutions, today announced that Astera Labs, a pioneer in connectivity solutions for intelligent systems, successfully used Avery’s Compute Express Link™ (CXLTM) 2.0 and PCI Express® (PCIe®) 5.0 Verification IP (VIP) and services in developing its Aries Smart Retimer portfolio.
The Avery CXL 2.0 and PCIe 5.0 VIP is a comprehensive solution supporting SoC verification comprised of SystemVerilog-based/UVM agents and compliance testsuites as well CXL system simulation running the latest CXL-enabled Linux kernel on QEMU-to-RTL co-simulation environment.
“The launch of our Aries CXL 2.0 Smart Retimer portfolio is a game changer for mainstreaming specialized workloads in complex heterogeneous compute and composable disaggregation system topologies,” said Kalyan Mulam, VP of Engineering, Astera Labs. “Working with a leading verification IP provider like Avery helped us streamline the design and verification process to deliver our Aries CXL 2.0 Smart Retimers to market and enable the rapidly emerging CXL ecosystem.”
“We are excited to collaborate with Astera Labs on PCIe and CXL verification of their purpose-built retimers, which play a crucial role in rapidly expanding the CXL datacenter ecosystem in 2021 and beyond,” said Chris Browy, vice president of sales and marketing at Avery Design Systems.
Imagine operating a computer by moving your hands in the air as Tony Stark does in “Iron Man.” Or using a smartphone to magnify an object as does the device that Harrison Ford’s character uses in “Blade Runner.” Or a next-generation video meeting where augmented reality glasses make it possible to view 3-D avatars. Or a generation of autonomous vehicles capable of driving safely in city traffic.
Rodolphe Barrere is co-founder and CEO of Potloc, a market research company pioneering a new approach to extracting consumer insights.
The best businesses understand the importance of listening to their customers. Customer insights are critical in almost every aspect of a company’s operations, whether you are delivering a finished product or an essential service — and regardless of whether you are B2B or B2C. The Holy Grail of consumer research is finding the best (as defined by relevance and honesty, at least) respondents that can be targeted in a very niche way — and doing so in a way that meets the time constraints of sampling in today’s rapidly shifting consumer markets.
What you’ll learn:
Applying AI to video-conferencing devices.
What is Super-Resolution image expansion?
The impact of deep-learning networks and specter of generative adversarial networks (GANs).
Video conferencing for virtual meetings, distance learning, or socializing has exploded with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Some experts suggest that even after the virus recedes, our reliance on virtual gatherings will remain part of our new normality. If so, the huge bandwidth hunger that ubiquitous video conferencing imposes on the internet—from the core out to the thinnest branches—is here to stay.
Even using modern video codecs, a video conference can be demanding on bandwidth: 1 to 2 Mb/s per participant just to keep those thumbnail images on the screen. And there’s growing evidence that with experience, users become more critical of image quality, longing to see fine details of facial expressions, gestures, and posture that carry so much information in an in-person meeting. This trend limits the ability of apps to use higher compression ratios to reduce bandwidth needs. The fine detail the compression algorithm throws out contains just the cues a skilled negotiator needs most.
Synaptics pioneered sensors for touchscreens for PCs and mobile devices. But the San Jose-based hardware company has shifted to where the processing is happening — at the edge of the network.
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