WindSpring has compression technology that is optimized for narrow-bandwidth Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company’s SpringBoard compression solutions offer many times the compression ratios as off-the-shelf algorithms with a three stage process. It is especially useful for IoT deployments that have small packets or limited bandwidth. Readers will learn how SpringBoard has been deployed...
This paper is an introduction to designing Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for designers and manufacturers of consumer major appliances, as well as light industrial applications. Readers will learn about emerging IoT service platforms that simplify IoT product and service development and shorten the time it takes to get to market.
The Open Compute Project (OCP) is in a position to define hardware interoperability standards that will accelerate adoption of private cloud infrastructure, especially by service providers and smaller organizations. We applaud OCP’s first firm steps down that path by defining logo certification requirements. However, OCP must quickly move to create an interoperability certification process.
ARM-based server and network processors are poised to improve carrier and service provider Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). ARM’s licensees, such as Qualcomm, Huawei, NXP, Cavium, AMD, AppliedMicro, Broadcom and others are in a great position to leverage NFV and SDN into public cloud and enterprise private cloud data centers.
ARM is enabling a new generation of heterogeneous system-on-chip (SoC) solutions with the ARM® CoreLink™ CCI-550. The CCI-550 enables a fully coherent GPU or other accelerators while lowering latency and increasing peak throughput. In combination with the new CoreLink DMC-500 dynamic memory controller, the new CoreLink platform offers increased performance and system efficiency targeted for mobile devices. TIRIAS...
The ARM-based server business is real and we are now seeing the first fruits from early adopters. The Applied Micro X-Gene SoC server processor is the first 64-bit ARM server processor in production and it is showing competitive performance and lower cost of ownership than traditional server deployments for the same function. A recent post...
Freescale introduces a new power and performance optimized heterogeneous processor for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) systems – the S32V family. The processor can process video camera feeds with two image processors from CogniVue and has a high performance GPU with 50GFLOPs of floating point compute power, all while maintaining a ~5W power envelope. The...
NVIDIA likes to use the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to announce new flagship mobile processors called the Tegra X1. The newest member of the Tegra family is all new – new GPU, new CPUs, new video support, a new semiconductor process, and optimized for new markets. The new GPU is “Maxwell” which was introduced...
The mainstream smartphone and tablet markets are large and diverse. While ARM is widely known for its CPU cores, the company also ships a very large number of graphic processing unit (GPU) cores as well. In addition to the GPU, in 2013 ARM expanded their Mali family of products to include video and display processors....
Streaming media, cloud services, wearables, Internet of things (IoT), Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and Big Data represent significant changes in the way data is collected, transmitted, and processed. For semiconductor providers, this change means not only designing for the next generation of devices and networks, but also planning ahead for the...