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Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today’s integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software, hardware, IP, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. Cadence’s Tensilica dataplane processors (DPUs) sit alongside the central applications processor, performing highly specialized imaging and video pre- and post-processing tasks.

Each DPU can be tailored to the exact application for the most efficient power, area and performance. The Tensilica IVP Image/Video Processor handles complex algorithms including innovative multi-frame image capture and video pre- and post-processing, video stabilization, HDR image and video processing, object and face recognition and tracking, low-light image enhancement, digital zoom and gesture recognition.

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Alliance Members at 2025 CES

November 12, 2024

The Edge AI and Vision Alliance 2025 CES Directory for game-changing computer vision and AI technologies Many Alliance Member companies will be showing off the latest building-block technologies that enable new capabilities for machines that see! CES is huge so we’ve created a handy checklist of these companies and where to find them including how […]

“Introduction to Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM),” a Presentation from Cadence

August 16, 2024

Amol Borkar, Product Marketing Director, and Shrinivas Gadkari, Design Engineering Director, both of Cadence, co-present the “Introduction to Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM)” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is widely used in industry and has numerous applications where camera or ego-motion… “Introduction to Visual Simultaneous Localization […]

Cadence Demonstration of a Large Vision Model for Generative AI on the Tensilica Vision P6 DSP

July 17, 2024

Amol Borkar, Director of Product Marketing for Cadence Tensilica DSPs and Automotive Segment Director, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates the use of a Tensilica Vision P6 DSP for the latest generative AI (GenAI) applications. The Vision P6 DSP is a […]

Cadence Demonstration of Time-of-Flight Decoding on the Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP

Amol Borkar, Director of Product Marketing for Cadence Tensilica DSPs and Automotive Segment Director, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates the use of a Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP for Time-of-Flight (ToF) decoding. In this demonstration, the Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP integrated […]

Cadence Demonstration of an Imaging Radar Applications on the Tensilica ConnX B10 DSP

Amol Borkar, Director of Product Marketing for Cadence Tensilica DSPs and Automotive Segment Director, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates the use of a Tensilica ConnX B10 DSP for automotive imaging radar applications. The ConnX B10 DSP is a highly efficient, […]

Dream Chip and Cadence Demo Automotive SoC Featuring Tensilica AI IP at embedded world 2024

June 18, 2024

Cadence verification and RTL-to-GDS digital full-flow tuned for automotive safety, quality and reliability requirements 18 Jun 2024 – At embedded world 2024, Cadence and Dream Chip demonstrated Dream Chip’s latest automotive SoC, which features the Cadence® Tensilica® Vision P6 DSP IP and Cadence design IP controllers and was taped out using the complete Cadence® Verification […]

“Addressing Tomorrow’s Sensor Fusion and Processing Needs with Cadence’s Newest Processors,” a Presentation from Cadence

June 17, 2024

Amol Borkar, Product Marketing Director at Cadence, presents the “Addressing Tomorrow’s Sensor Fusion and Processing Needs with Cadence’s Newest Processors” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. From ADAS to autonomous vehicles to smartphones, the number and variety of sensors used in edge devices is increasing: radar, LiDAR, time-of-flight… “Addressing Tomorrow’s Sensor Fusion and […]

Cadence Expands Tensilica Vision Family with Radar Accelerator and New DSPs Optimized for Automotive Applications

February 28, 2024

Highlights: Single DSPs for embedded vision, radar, lidar and AI processing boost performance while providing significant area, power and cost savings New radar accelerator provides a highly programmable hardware solution for offloading 4D imaging radar workloads, increasing performance Designed for sensor fusion processing in multi-sensor automotive, drone, robotics and autonomous vehicle system designs SAN JOSE, […]

Ecosystem Collaboration Drives New AMBA Specification for Chiplets

February 16, 2024

This blog post was originally published at Arm’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Arm. AMBA is being extended to the chiplets market with the new CHI C2C specification. As Arm’s EVP and Chief Architect Richard Grisenthwaite said in this blog, Arm is collaborating across the ecosystem on standards to enable a […]

The Age of AI Demands Faster Chip Development: Only Arm and Cadence Deliver

December 20, 2023

This blog post was originally published at Arm’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Arm. Strategic collaboration accelerates Custom Silicon for evolving AI workloads As AI continues its rapid evolution, optimized silicon is crucial to unlock next-generation applications. Arm serves as a foundation for this innovation with its CPU, GPU and related […]

Why a DSP is Indispensable in the New World of AI

October 26, 2023

This blog post was originally published at Cadence’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Cadence. The Goal: Long Shelf Life Chips being designed today for the automotive, mobile handset, AI-IoT (artificial intelligence – Internet of things), and other AI applications will be fabricated in a year or two, designed into end products […]

Cadence Expands Tensilica IP Portfolio with New HiFi and Vision DSPs for Pervasive Intelligence and Edge AI Inference

October 25, 2023

AI enhancements and Tensilica Xtensa LX8 platform capabilities deliver significant performance improvements with industry-best energy efficiency 24 Oct 2023 — SAN JOSE, Calif.— Cadence Design Systems, Inc.(Nasdaq: CDNS) today expanded its industry-leading Tensilica® HiFi and Vision DSP families with the introduction of four new DSPs based on the recently announced Tensilica Xtensa® LX8 processor platform. […]

Cadence Demonstrations of Generative AI and People Tracking at the Edge

October 2, 2023

Amol Borkar, Director of Product and Marketing for Vision and AI DSPs at Cadence Tensilica, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the September 2023 Edge AI and Vision Alliance Forum. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates two applications running on customers’ SoCs, showcasing Cadence’s pervasiveness in AI. The first demonstration is of […]

Cadence Accelerates On-device and Edge AI Performance and Efficiency with New Neo NPU IP and NeuroWeave SDK for Silicon Design

September 13, 2023

Highlights: Neo NPUs efficiently offload from any host processor and scale from 8 GOPS to 80 TOPS in a single core, extending to hundreds of TOPS for multicore AI IP delivers industry-leading AI performance and energy efficiency for optimal PPA and cost points Targets a broad range of on-device and edge applications, including intelligent sensors, […]

Cadence Demonstration of Next-gen On-device and Edge AI Using a Tensilica Turnkey AI Accelerator Solution

August 4, 2023

Suhas Mitra, Director Product Management and Marketing at Cadence, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Mitra demonstrates Cadence’s Tensilica AI accelerator portfolio, specifically showcasing the company’s Tensilica NNA (Neural Network Accelerator) 110 IP. These IPs can significantly improve the performance of edge and […]

Cadence Demonstration of In-vehicle Infotainment

Amol Borkar, Director of Product and Marketing for Vision and AI DSPs at Cadence Tensilica, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates an automotive in-vehicle infotainment system, implemented on a customer’s platform and featuring the Tensilica Vision DSP. Infotainment is an important […]

Cadence Demonstration of Tensilica DSPs’ Vision and AI Capabilities for Industrial Products

August 3, 2023

David Bell, Product Marketing Director for Tensilica AI IP products at Cadence, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Bell demonstrates the vision and AI capabilities of Tensilica DSPs for industrial products, in the process also answering the question of whether a tomato is […]

“Tensilica Processor Cores Enable Sensor Fusion for Robust Perception,” a Presentation from Cadence

June 23, 2023

Amol Borkar, Product Marketing Director at Cadence, presents the “Tensilica Processor Cores Enable Sensor Fusion for Robust Perception” tutorial at the May 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Until recently, the majority of sensor-based AI processing used vision and speech inputs. Recently, we have begun to see radar, LiDAR, event-based image sensors and other types of sensors […]

Cadence Strengthens Tensilica Vision and AI Software Partner Ecosystem for Advanced Automotive, Mobile, Consumer and IoT Applications

April 18, 2023

New ecosystem members Kudan and Visionary.ai enable fast deployment of high-performance, energy-efficient SLAM and AI ISP-based solutions April 11, 2023–SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that it has welcomed Kudan and Visionary.ai to the Tensilica software partner ecosystem, bringing industry-leading simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and AI image signal processor […]

Cadence Demonstration of Powering Next-gen On-device Edge AI Using a Turnkey AI Accelerator Solution

October 12, 2022

Suhas Mitra, Director of Product Management and Marketing at Cadence Tensilica, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Mitra demonstrates the Cadence Tensilica AI accelerator portfolio. Mitra demonstrates how the Tensilica Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) 110 IP can significantly improve the performance of edge […]

Cadence Demonstration of Real-time Visual SLAM for Embedded Devices

October 11, 2022

Amol Borkar, Director of Product and Marketing for Vision and AI DSPs at Cadence Tensilica, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates Xvisio’s highly accurate 3D camera position and tracking using Visual SLAM (VSLAM), implemented on a customer’s platform and featuring the […]

Cadence Demonstration of Ultra-low Power Always-on Applications on the Tensilica Vision P1 DSP

Amol Borkar, Director of Product and Marketing for Vision and AI DSPs at Cadence Tensilica, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates Tensilica’s latest processor from the Vision DSP family, the Vision P1 DSP, running on Cadence’s own FPGA platform. The Vision […]

“Designing the Next Ultra-Low-Power Always-On Solution,” a Presentation from Cadence

June 29, 2022

Amol Borkar, Director of Product Management and Marketing for Tensilica Vision and AI DSPs at Cadence, presents the “Designing the Next Ultra-Low-Power Always-On Solution” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Increasingly, users expect their systems to be ready to respond at any time—for example, using a voice command to launch a music playlist. […]

Light Leverages Cadence Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP for Enhanced Depth Perception in Next-Generation ADAS Systems

January 14, 2022

Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP enables Light’s Clarity Depth Perception Platform to power next-generation ADAS systems with 10X greater performance than quad-core CPU REDWOOD CITY and SAN JOSE, Calif., January 13, 2022 – Light™ and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that Light has deployed the Cadence® Tensilica® Vision Q7 DSP for use in […]

Cadence Demonstration of Vision and AI Applications on Tensilica-based Platforms

November 11, 2021

Amol Borkar, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Vision and AI DSPs at Cadence, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates various vision and AI applications, including real-time examples of driver monitoring, automotive perception, 6DoF SLAM and semantic segmentation, running on Tensilica processor- […]

Cadence Accelerates Intelligent SoC Development with Comprehensive On-Device Tensilica AI Platform

September 14, 2021

New Tensilica AI engine boosts performance and AI accelerators provide a turnkey solution for consumer, mobile, automotive and industrial AI SoC designs Highlights: Domain-specific, extensible and configurable AI platform built upon mature, volume production-proven Tensilica architecture Industry-leading performance and energy efficiency for on-device AI applications Comprehensive, common AI software addresses all target markets Low-, mid- […]

“Vision and AI DSPs for Ultra-High-End and Always-On Applications,” a Presentation from Cadence

July 30, 2021

Pulin Desai, Product Marketing Group Director at Cadence Design Systems, presents the “Vision and AI DSPs for Ultra-High-End and Always-On Applications” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. The number and resolution of image sensors continue to increase in mobile, AR/VR, automotive, drone, mobile, and robotics platforms, which also use a mix of other […]

Tensilica Vision Q8 and P1 DSPs, More AND Less

April 22, 2021

This blog post was originally published at Cadence’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Cadence. President George H. W. Bush famously said that he didn’t do “the vision thing”. Well, here at Cadence we definitely do the vision thing. In fact, the Tensilica Vision DSP product line is the market leader in […]

Cadence Extends Popular Tensilica Vision and AI DSP IP Product Line with New DSPs Targeting High-End and Always-On Applications

Vision Q8 and Vision P1 DSPs Broaden Support for Automotive, Mobile and Consumer Markets SAN JOSE, Calif., April 22, 2021—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today expanded its popular Tensilica® Vision DSP product family with the debut of two new DSP IP cores for embedded vision and AI. Packing an industry-leading 3.8 tera operations per […]

“Cadence Tensilica Edge AI Processor IP Solutions for Broad Market Use Cases,” a Presentation from Cadence

November 13, 2020

Pulin Desai, Vision and AI Product Marketing Group Director at Cadence, presents the “Cadence Tensilica Edge AI Processor IP Solutions for Broad Market Use Cases” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. In this talk, Desai presents the full range of Cadence Tensilica edge AI processing solutions. These silicon IP-based solutions serve markets from […]

Cadence Tensilica Demonstration of a mmWave 4D Imaging Radar Solution for Automotive Applications

February 12, 2020

Amol Borkar, Senior Product and Marketing Manager for Vision and AI DSPs at Cadence Tensilica, delivers a product demonstration at the January 2020 Consumer Electronics Show. Specifically, Borkar showcases customer solutions that feature the Tensilica Vision DSP for mmWave 4D imaging radar applications. First, Borkar demonstrates Vayyar’s mmWave radar solution, used here for real-time in-cabin […]

Cadence Tensilica Demonstration of ADAS Applications on an AI Perception Processor

Amol Borkar, Senior Product and Marketing Manager for Vision and AI DSPs at Cadence Tensilica, delivers a product demonstration at the January 2020 Consumer Electronics Show. Specifically, Borkar showcases Black Sesame Technologies’ A500 (HS1) SOC, which features the Tensilica Vision P6 DSP along with Black Sesame Technologies’ own Ultra Deep Learning Neural Network hardware accelerator. […]

Cadence Demonstration of Vision and AI Applications on Tensilica DSP-based Platforms

December 12, 2019

Amol Borkar, Senior Product Manager and Marketing of Vision and AI DSPs at Cadence, delivers a product demonstration at the September 2019 Vision Industry and Technology Forum. Specifically, Borkar first demonstrates attention-driven image tagging on the Dreamchip development platform, powered by four Tensilica® Vision P6 DSPs. This first demonstration showcases high throughput and accurate fixed-point […]

Cadence Demonstration of a 3D Radar Imaging System on Vayyar’s Platform Powered by a Tensilica Vision DSP

October 11, 2019

Amol Borkar, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cadence, delivers a product demonstration at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates an advanced mmWave 3D Imaging Radar Solution for occupancy detection in smart homes, automotive, retail, and more, running on a Tensilica Vision DSP-based platform by Vayyar.

Cadence Demonstration of Real-Time Depth Sensing on a Tensilica Vision DSP-Based Platform

October 9, 2019

Amol Borkar, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cadence, delivers a product demonstration at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates low-power, real-time, stereo camera-based depth sensing targeted for drones, industrial robotics, and AGVs, running on a customer’s platform powered by a Tensilica Vision P6 DSP-based SoC.

Cadence Demonstration of a Recurrent Neural Network-Based Show Attend and Tell on a Tensilica DSP Platform

Amol Borkar, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cadence, delivers a product demonstration at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates attention-driven image tagging on the Dreamchip development platform, powered by four Tensilica® Vision P6 DSPs. The demo showcases high throughput and accurate fixed-point deployment of a network based on a Recurrent Neural Network […]

“Fundamentals of Monocular SLAM,” a Presentation from Cadence

September 4, 2019

Shrinivas Gadkari, Design Engineering Director at Cadence, presents the “Fundamentals of Monocular SLAM” tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) refers to a class of algorithms that enables a device with one or more cameras and/or other sensors to create an accurate map of its surroundings, to determine the […]

“Portable Performance via the OpenVX Computer Vision Library: Case Studies,” a Presentation from Cadence

August 1, 2019

Frank Brill, Design Engineering Director at Cadence, presents the “Portable Performance via the OpenVX Computer Vision Library: Case Studies” tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. OpenVX is a state-of-the-art open API standard for accelerating applications using computer vision and machine learning. The API and its conformance tests enable applications to leverage highly specialized […]

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Toshiba Selects Cadence Tensilica Vision P6 DSP as Image Recognition Processor for its Next-Generation ADAS Chip

July 28, 2019

Tensilica Vision P6 DSP increases performance and power efficiency compared to CPUs for vision and AI applications SAN JOSE, Calif., June 13, 2019—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) announced today that Toshiba has implemented the Cadence® Tensilica® Vision P6 DSPs for its next-generation automotive SoC to meet functional safety requirements. The Vision P6 DSP provides […]

“Highly Efficient, Scalable Vision and AI Processors IP for the Edge,” a Presentation from Cadence

July 10, 2019

Pulin Desai, Vision Product Marketing Director at Cadence, presents the "Highly Efficient, Scalable Vision and AI Processors IP for the Edge" tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. This presentation describes the architecture of the latest Tensilica-based vision and AI processor family, and illustrates how easily vision algorithms (e.g., SLAM, 3D capture) and AI […]

New Cadence Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP IP Doubles Vision and AI Performance for Automotive, AR/VR, Mobile and Surveillance Markets

May 15, 2019

Delivers up to 1.82TOPS with instruction set enhancements optimized for SLAM algorithms SAN JOSE, Calif., May 15, 2019—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today expanded the high end of its popular Tensilica® Vision DSP product family with the introduction of the Cadence® Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP delivering up to 1.82 tera operations per second (TOPS). […]

ImageNet: The Benchmark that Changed Everything

April 8, 2019

This blog post is an abridged version of one originally published at Cadence's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Cadence. I like to date technical transitions from specific events, even though realistically they take place over an extended period. For example, I think the modern era of IC design and EDA started […]

Cadence Demonstration of AI at the Edge on Consumer Phones Powered by Tensilica Vision DSPs

February 6, 2019

Amol Borkar, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cadence, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the January 2019 Consumer Electronics Show. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates face unlock (enabled by Face++) on Huawei phones, as well as HDR, AI beautification and bokeh effects (enabled by Arcsoft and Sensetime) on Oppo and Vivo phones. All […]

Cadence Demonstration of ADAS Applications Using Geo Semiconductor’s Tensilica-based GW5400

Amol Borkar, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cadence, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the January 2019 Consumer Electronics Show. Specifically, Borkar demonstrates real-time driver monitoring and pedestrian detection running on Geo Semiconductor's GW5400 chip, powered by a Tensilica Vision DSP.

Vayyar Selects Cadence Tensilica Vision DSP for Advanced Millimeter Wave 3D Imaging Radar Solution

February 5, 2019

Vision DSP family efficiently executes complex imaging algorithms and processes back-end radar signals on the edge in real time without needing a CPU SAN JOSE, Calif. and YEHUD, Israel, 08 Jan 2019 – Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) and Vayyar Imaging, a global leader in 3D imaging technology, today announced that Vayyar Imaging has […]

ArcSoft and Cadence Partner to Develop AI and Vision Applications

February 4, 2019

Cadence Tensilica Vision P6 DSP improves performance for AI and vision applications SAN JOSE and FREMONT, Calif., July 12, 2018—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) and ArcSoft, the global leader in imaging intelligence technology, today announced they have partnered to develop AI and vision applications for Cadence® Tensilica® Vision DSPs. ArcSoft has collaborated with Cadence […]

GEO Semiconductor Selects Cadence Tensilica Vision P5 DSP for Their Most Advanced Automotive Smart Viewing Camera Processor

Integration of the Vision P5 DSP allows OEMs to run computer vision applications to enable enhanced automated driving experiences SAN JOSE, Calif., February 26, 2018—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that GEO Semiconductor (GEO) selected the Cadence® Tensilica® Vision P5 DSP for GEO’s new GW5400 camera video processor. According to GEO, their GW5400 […]

Cadence Demonstration of On-Device AI for Image Classification

November 12, 2018

Megha Daga, senior technical marketing manager at Cadence, delivers a product demonstration at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Daga demonstrates the highly capable Tensilica Vision P6 DSP, which does both computer vision and AI processing. The demo showcases Cadence’s automatic code generation tool for neural networks, the Xtensa Neural Network Compiler, which accepts […]

Cadence Demonstration of On-Device AI for Object Detection

Megha Daga, senior technical marketing manager at Cadence, delivers a product demonstration at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Daga demonstrates the power of the Tensilica Vision P6 DSP to perform both computer vision and AI processing. The demo detects all the faces in the camera view using the Tiny Yolo V2 network, and […]

“Neural Network Compiler: Enabling Rapid Deployment of DNNs on Low-Cost, Low-Power Processors,” a Presentation from Cadence

September 20, 2018

Megha Daga, Senior Technical Marketing Manager at Cadence, presents the “Neural Network Compiler: Enabling Rapid Deployment of DNNs on Low-Cost, Low-Power Processors” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. The use of deep neural networks (DNNs) has accelerated in recent years, with DNNs making their way into diverse commercial products. But DNNs consume vast […]

“The Perspective Transform in Embedded Vision,” a Presentation from Cadence

September 4, 2018

Shrinivas Gadkari, Design Engineering Director, and Aditya Joshi, Lead Design Engineer, both of Cadence, present the “Perspective Transform in Embedded Vision” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. This presentation focuses on the perspective transform and its role in many state-of-the-art embedded vision applications like video stabilization, high dynamic range (HDR) imaging and super […]

OpenVX Implementations Deliver Robust Computer Vision Applications

August 1, 2018

Key to the widespread adoption of embedded vision is the ease of developing software that runs efficiently on a diversity of hardware platforms, with high performance, low power consumption and cost-effective system resource needs. In the past, this combination of objectives has been a tall order, since it has historically required significant code optimization for […]

OpenVX Enhancements, Optimization Opportunities Expand Vision Software Development Capabilities

July 31, 2018

Visual Ventures with Chris Rowen

December 11, 2017

This article was originally published as a two-part blog series at Cadence's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Cadence. "Even if he gives the same presentation two weeks apart, it will be different.” —Neil Robinson, fellow attendee, on Chris Rowen My question: Is it because he is such a dynamic speaker, and […]

“Techniques to Reduce Power Consumption in Embedded DNN Implementations,” a Presentation from Cadence

July 10, 2017

Samer Hijazi, Deep Learning Engineering Group Director at Cadence, presents the "Techniques to Reduce Power Consumption in Embedded DNN Implementations" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. Deep learning is becoming the most widely used technique for computer vision and pattern recognition. This rapid adoption is primarily driven by the outstanding effectiveness deep learning […]

“Scalable Neural Network Processors for Embedded Applications,” a Presentation from Cadence

July 3, 2017

Pulin Desai, Director of Product Marketing at Cadence, presents the "Scalable Neural Network Processors for Embedded Applications" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. This presentation describes the architecture of the latest Tensilica-based neural network processor IP and illustrates how easily different neural networks can be run using it. See how this low-power architecture […]

“The OpenVX Computer Vision Library Standard for Portable, Efficient Code,” a Presentation from Cadence

June 16, 2017

Frank Brill, Design Engineering Director at Cadence and Chairperson of the Khronos Group's OpenVX Working Group, presents the "OpenVX Computer Vision Library Standard for Portable, Efficient Code" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. OpenVX is an industry-standard computer vision API designed for efficient implementation on a variety of embedded platforms. The API incorporates […]

Deep Learning for Object Recognition: DSP and Specialized Processor Optimizations

July 28, 2016

Neural networks enable the identification of objects in still and video images with impressive speed and accuracy after an initial training phase. This so-called "deep learning" has been enabled by the combination of the evolution of traditional neural network techniques, with one latest-incarnation example known as a CNN (convolutional neural network), by the steadily increasing […]

“The Road Ahead for Neural Networks: Five Likely Surprises,” a Presentation from Cadence

June 24, 2016

Dr. Chris Rowen, Chief Technology Officer of the IP Group at Cadence, presents the "Road Ahead for Neural Networks: Five Likely Surprises" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit. Cognitive computing is finally getting real! It has passed through the phases of obscurity and curiosity and is surviving the current phase of breathless hype. […]

OpenVX Enables Portable, Efficient Vision Software

February 25, 2016

OpenVX, a maturing API from the Khronos Group, enables embedded vision application software developers to efficiently harness the various processing resources available in SoCs and systems. Vision technology is now enabling a wide range of products, that are more intelligent and responsive than before, and thus more valuable to users. Such image perception, understanding, and […]

Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Recognition

November 12, 2015

This article was originally published at Cadence's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Cadence. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used in pattern- and image-recognition problems as they have a number of advantages compared to other techniques. This white paper covers the basics of CNNs including a description of the various layers […]

“Designing and Selecting Instruction Sets for Vision,” a Presentation From Cadence

July 2, 2015

Chris Rowen, Fellow at Cadence, presents the "Designing and Selecting Instruction Sets for Vision" tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit. Two critical technical trends have reached important inflection points: the massive compute demands of vision processing and the capabilities of specialized vision processors. But what how do you actually select (or even build) […]

May 2014 Embedded Vision Summit Technical Presentation: “Taming the Beast: Performance and Energy Optimization Across Embedded Feature Detection and Tracking,” Chris Rowen, Cadence

June 6, 2014

Chris Rowen, Fellow at Cadence, presents the "Taming the Beast: Performance and Energy Optimization Across Embedded Feature Detection and Tracking" tutorial at the May 2014 Embedded Vision Summit. This presentation looks at a cross-section of advanced feature detectors, and considers the algorithm, bit precision, arithmetic primitives and implementation optimizations that yield high pixel processing rates, […]

April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit Technical Presentation: “Porting Applications to High-Performance Imaging DSPs,” Chris Rowen, Cadence

November 8, 2013

Chris Rowen, Fellow at Cadence and Founder of Tensilica, presents the "Porting Applications to High-Performance Imaging DSPs" tutorial within the "Developing Vision Software, Accelerators and Systems" technical session at the April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit. Rowen discusses the challenges of porting and tuning applications to a high-performance imaging DSP. An imaging-specific DSP can make a […]

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