NUREMBERG, Germany, March 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- At
Embedded World, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced
expansion into a wide range of vision guided machine learning
applications with the Xilinx® reVISION™ stack. This announcement
complements the recent Reconfigurable Acceleration
Stack, significantly broadening the deployment of
machine learning applications with Xilinx technology from the edge
to the cloud. The new reVISION stack enables a much broader
set of software and systems engineers, with little or no hardware
design expertise to develop intelligent vision guided systems
easier and faster. These engineers can now realize
significant advantages when combining machine learning, computer
vision, sensor fusion, and connectivity.
reVISION is enabling a fast growing set of applications in
markets where differentiation is critical, systems must be
extremely responsive, and the latest algorithms and sensors need to
be quickly deployed. This includes approximately two-thirds of the
applications for vision focused semiconductors. Applications span a
number of markets such as high end consumer, automotive,
industrial, medical, and aerospace & defense. Next generation
applications include collaborative robots or 'cobots', 'sense and
avoid' drones, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, automated
surveillance and medical diagnostics.
reVISION enables the fastest path to the most responsive
vision systems, with up to 6x better images/second/watt in machine
learning inference, 40x better frames/second/watt of computer
vision processing, and 1/5th the latency over competing embedded
GPUs and typical SoCs. Developers with limited hardware expertise
can use a C/C++/OpenCL development flow with industry-standard
frameworks and libraries like Caffe and OpenCV to develop embedded
vision applications on a single Zynq® SoC or MPSoC.
Leveraging the unique advantages of reconfigurability and
any-to-any connectivity, developers can use the stack to rapidly
develop and deploy upgrades. Reconfigurability is critical to
'future proof' intelligent vision-based systems as neural networks,
algorithms, sensor technologies and interface standards continue to
evolve at an accelerated pace.
The Xilinx reVISION stack includes a broad
range of development resources for platform, algorithm and
application development. This includes support for the most popular
neural networks including AlexNet, GoogLeNet, SqueezeNet, SSD, and
FCN. Additionally, the stack provides library elements including
pre-defined and optimized implementations for CNN network layers,
required to build custom neural networks (DNN/CNN). The machine
learning elements are complemented by a broad set of
acceleration-ready OpenCV functions for computer vision processing.
For application level development, Xilinx supports
industry-standard frameworks including Caffe for machine learning
and OpenVX for computer vision. The reVISION stack also
includes development platforms from Xilinx and third parties,
including various types of sensors.
"Our eye tracking technology has greatly benefited
individuals suffering from ALS or other forms of paralysis, powered
by the Zynq SoCs for high resolution vision based analytics," said
Robert Chappell, CEO and Founder,
Eyetech Digital Systems. "The new reVISION stack offers new
opportunities for algorithm development by leveraging the power of
machine learning. This can enable us to expand our offering of
human interaction hardware as well as improving our core eye
tracking products."
"The embedded market is an evolving application space
where changes in algorithms, neural networks and sensors require
reconfigurability of the target platforms," said Lakshmi Mandyam,
senior director of segment marketing, ARM. "ARM®-based Zynq
technology from Xilinx will enable these applications to be
deployed efficiently while accelerating the adoption of innovative
machine learning applications from the edge to the
cloud."
"We are seeing tremendous interest in machine learning
from the edge to the cloud, and believe that our ongoing investment
in development stacks will accelerate mainstream adoption," said
Steve Glaser, SVP of Corporate
Strategy at Xilinx. "Today, hundreds of embedded vision customers
have realized greater than 10x performance and latency advantages
with Xilinx technology. With the addition of reVISION, those same
advantages will now become available to thousands of
customers."
Availability
The reVISION stack
will be available in the second quarter of 2017. To learn more and
join the reVISION community visit at
www.xilinx.com/revision.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading
provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, RFSoCs and 3D
ICs. Xilinx uniquely enables applications that are both software
defined and hardware optimized – powering industry advancements in
Cloud Computing, 5G Wireless, Embedded Vision, and Industrial
IoT. For more information, visit
www.xilinx.com.
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