The Impact of AI on Software and Hardware Development Part 4 of this series analyzes how AI algorithmic processing is transforming software structures and significantly modifying processing hardware. It explores the marginalization of the traditional CPU architecture and demonstrates how software is increasingly dominating hardware. Additionally, it examines the impact of these changes on software … Read more
Designing a truly autonomous vehicle will require harnessing generative AI to enhance the capabilities of predictive AI. The journey toward achieving fully autonomous driving (AD) is progressing through five levels of increasing automation, codified by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in 2014 under Standard J3016. Beginning at Level 1 (L1), characterized by basic driver … Read more
Day in, day out, media outlets report an escalating electricity shortage across developed countries, and data centers often lie at the heart of these discussions. An often-repeated analogy compares the annual energy consumption of the largest data centers to that of major cities or even small countries. Compounding the issue are rising concerns that rural … Read more
Part 3 of this 4-part series analyzes methods and tools involved in debugging software at different layers of the software stack. Software debugging involves identifying and resolving issues ranging from functional misbehaviors to crashes. The essential requirement for validating software programs is the ability to monitor code execution on the underlying processor(s). Software debugging practices … Read more
Virtual Prototyping and Hybrid Emulation for Early Software Validation Debugging a software stack for complex System-on-Chip (SoC) designs is a highly iterative process, often requiring the execution of trillions of verification cycles even before end-user applications are considered. For instance, booting Android can take anywhere from 20 seconds to one minute at 1 GHz, depending … Read more
Despite seven decades of mostly unsuccessful investigation, AI has experienced significant growth over the last 10 years, expanding at an exponential rate. This escalating adoption has been propelled by a shift toward highly parallel computing architectures, a departure from conventional CPU-based systems. Traditional CPUs, with their sequential processing nature that handles one instruction at a … Read more
Introduction As the saying goes, it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. Yet, among the fog of uncertainty, a rare prescient vision in the realm of technology stands out. In 2011, venture capital investor Marc Andreessen crafted an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal titled “Why Software Is Eating The World.” Andreessen … Read more
Mastering AI is becoming increasingly vital in shaping economic, social, energy, military and geopolitical landscapes. Enabling the extensive implementation of advanced AI technologies across businesses, government entities and individual bodies is not only strategic but also imperative. Despite seven decades of mostly unsuccessful investigation, AI has experienced significant growth over the last 10 years, expanding … Read more
Prologue Peter was running late for two reasons. First, he encountered unexpected heavy traffic and arrived ten minutes late for a crucial meeting with a customer to run a compliance test of his new 6G phone design prototyped on FPGAs. This prototype’s success was pivotal, as it could secure a significant purchase order. Peter had … Read more
The ever-growing demand for longer battery life in mobile devices and energy savings in general have pushed power optimization to the top of designers’ concerns. While various techniques like multi-VT transistors and clock gating offer power savings at gate-level design, the real impact occurs at system level, where hardware and software collaborate. A key power savings … Read more