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Keynote panel on RISC-V Summit 2018: opportunities and challenges in security for open source hardware# Complex systems tend to have bugs, so making it preparatory will make it more secure from attacks. But open source …

My notes on RISC-V Summit 2018 at Santa Clara Conventional Center# This year’s summit has many more participants than the last one, which means RISC-V is getting a lot of momentum around the world. Although most of the …

Day 1 Morning# Paper from microsoft Microsoft has a IC design team? Apparently it does. Grey code: even when metastability happends, it falls to adjecent states, instead of unknow states, it’s acceptable in some cases. …

AI and ML# Artificial intellegence vs human intellegence The imitation game, eugen Goosman passed the Turing Test, 2014 Alpha Go, deepmind 2015 Introduction to deep learning# Improve on task T with respect to performance …

Start-up: python -> enterprise: C/Java/Scala, more engineers, faster Research: quick result and prototyping GPU? Data movement between GPU and CPU is important [ ] fast.ai: class (high school math) infrastructure: …

今天去参加一个AI的meetup，碰到了一个连续创业者。他介绍了自己正在做的事情：“改变现有的输入方式，不应该是人给机器输入指令，而应该是机器预测人的需求并作出相应的动作。”，这才是机器的未来。同时他提到输出界面应该AR（增强现实）这种类型的，而不应该是一个显示屏幕。

一场涉及普通消费者的智能用电革命正在悄然发生。加州政府近年来努力推动这项能源节约革命，在近三年来取得了快速的进步，得到了能源公司和电器制造商的广泛支持。 Prosumer的概念# 普通家庭以往是以单一的电力消费者出现的。但是近年来由于太阳能发电设备的推广力度不断加大，得到了大量消费者的欢迎和支持，催生了prosumer的概念，即producer + consumer。通过政府大力支持的贷款在自家屋顶安装太阳能板，并将发出的电力上网卖给电 …

By Jon Shlens and George Toderici from Google Research @ 2017-01-20 Fri History Convolutional NN: old tech, why suddenly it works? Scale: 60M parameters At least 60M +1 data point to fit these parameters SIMD hardware …

今天的CES meetup是一个清华85级的学长来宣传他们自己公司的bluetooth hub，Cassia Networks。如果简单从名字上来看并没有什么高端的感觉，毕竟bluetooth和hub两个东西都不是什么稀奇的东西。但是它获得了2016年CES大会最佳产品奖项，可不是浪得虚名。 它解决了bluetooth的痛点，而且是用现有的商业化芯片，在系统集成和固件上下功夫，通过对协议的深刻理解，得到了超出世人的性能：不需要 …

Recent consolidation progress is going so crazy, mostly because of the IC industry is becoming less and less profitable in every individual application fields. My perspective is that this is not just a consolidation of …

今天的Meetup主要讲的是Google的Data Center中optical interconnection的应用。 Presentation之后问了一个问题：Google的Data Center里面是否HDD正在被SSD取代？回答是，并没有，因为虽然SSD在读写速度上有明显的优势，但是由于存储容量的性价比非常低，所以仅是作为缓存使用。也就是说在HDD和DRAM之间再加一层SSD来提升存取速度。看来老板Sehat的FLC其实是基于市 …

Intel IoT platform Intel IoT Platform Sensors and things Arduino Gateway transfer data between different types of networks some data processing as well moving quickly: different types of data flexibility is important …

汽车设计正在成为EDA公司的讨论热点。我个人觉得ANSYS应该算是其中翘楚，因为各种物理模拟器和散热模拟器是他们的传统强项。而诸如Synospsys和Mentor这样的软件厂商就更多的focus在电子系统上，硬件软件全部都有。 From Mindy: EDA厂商每年都要收购大量的小公司来保证自己的创造力。 ARM推出了专门针对Bluetooth 4.0的IP库和demo 有一家叫做flexlogic的公司，专门做FPGA阵列的IP，用 …

Bohr: moore’s law for 50 years $mm^2$ is increasing since 130nm heterogeneous intergration: 3D chip is not a replacement of moore’s law (quite opposite with Sehat) refocus on general purpose design Hill: 21 century …