Powering AI

    March 2024
    Microcontrollers Simplify Deployment of AI for Automotive Applications

    The AURIX™ microcontroller family from Infineon Technologies AG offers advanced real-time computing hardware for embedded AI in automotive applications.

    ­Automotive component suppliers and OEMs alike are faced with the challenge that every car is unique. It is unique in how, where and by whom it is driven, its design, the purpose of the ride, as well as the road and traffic conditions where it operates. To ensure that each vehicle functions well and runs optimally, it
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    Date:
    03/20/2024
    Concentric AI Uniquely Secures Microsoft Copilot Rollouts and Operation with Intelligent AI-based Data Security Posture Management Solution

    Karthik Krishnan, Concentric AI CEO

    ­Concentric AI, a leading vendor of intelligent AI-based solutions for autonomous data security posture management (DSPM), announced its new Copilot data risk module that delivers the industry’s first data security governance of Copilot data inputs and outputs to ensure that sensitive data – from fi
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    Date:
    03/14/2024
    SFU Researchers Develop AI that can Understand Light in Photographs

    Dr. Yağız Aksoy, who leads the Computational Photography Lab at SFU

    ­Despite significant progress in developing AI systems that can understand the physical world like humans do, researchers have struggled with modelling a certain aspect of our visual system: the perception of light.  “Determining the influence of light in a given photograph is a bit like trying to separa
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    Date:
    03/11/2024
    SEGGER's J-Link Debug Probes Support Renesas RZ/V2H MPU

    SEGGER's J-Link Debug Probes Support Renesas RZ/V2H MPU

    ­The RZ/V2H is a single-chip MPU designed for next-generation robotics applications that require both vision AI and real-time control capabilities. With the integration of four Arm Cortex-A55 CPU cores, two Cortex-R8 cores, and one Cortex-M33 sub-core, the RZ/V2H can effectively manage both vision AI and real-time cont
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    Date:
    03/06/2024
    Renesas Unveils Powerful Single-Chip RZ/V2H MPU for Next-Gen Robotics with Vision AI and Real-Time Control

    Renesas Unveils Powerful Single-Chip RZ/V2H MPU for Next-Gen Robotics with Vision AI and Real-Time Control

    ­Renesas Electronics Corporation has expanded its popular RZ Family of microprocessors (MPUs) with a new device targeting high-performance robotics applications. Offering the highest levels of performance within the family, the RZ/V2H enables both vision AI and real-time control capabilities.  The device comes
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    Date:
    03/06/2024
    AI Faces a Barrage of Legal Challenges

    Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

    ­Some non-consensual images of Taylor Swift and a 1-hour comedy special from the very deceased George Carlin is bringing the dark side of artificial intelligence to the public consciousness. And this isn’t late 20th century roboapocalypse agita – for the moment, the biggest AI threat is a plethora of copyr
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    Date:
    03/01/2024
    Design Considerations for Medical Power Supplies

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    Figure 1: A typical risk management process according to ISO 14971

    ­Medical equipment design is highly regulated, with safety being the main concern. However, the standards must cover a very wide range of equipment types and use environments, from battery-powered monitors to scanners consuming multiple kW and from operating theatres to analysis labs and ‘point of care’ se
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    Date:
    03/01/2024
    Maximizing Yield and Performance of Power Devices by Deep Learning

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    Figure 1. Visualization of a FIB-SEM tomography datasets obtained from a SiC MOSFET samples. The top image shows the full volume, while the bottom one presents the same dataset with a cuboid of approximately one third of the volume cut away....

    ­Silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs have become predominantly used in power semiconductors, particularly for automotive applications. To support process development, improve manufacturing yield, and reduce sub-surface failures in finished products, engineers must understand the structure, dopant and junction profiles, an
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    Date:
    03/01/2024
    An Artificial Invasion

    Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

    ­The world is buzzing over the capabilities, potential, and in some cases, legal implications, of artificial intelligence, and for good reason. In a very real sense, this feels like the hype that preceded the very first personal computers, before they became an inseparable part of the human experience. Like late ‘80s/early
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    Date:
    03/01/2024
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