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Soft, flexible material performs complex calculations, paves way for smart robots

R esearchers at FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in the Netherlands have developed a new type of soft, ...
Network World

Raster to vector conversions with potrace and cocoapotrace

If you work with computers sooner or later you’re going to find you need an image that is in a raster (AKA bitmap) format (e.g. .gif, .jpg, .wmf) translated to a vector format (e.g. .svg, .cgm, .dwg).
Design-Reuse

A custom RISC-V vector instruction to accelerate structured-sparse matrix multiplications

A novel AI-acceleration paper presents a method to optimize sparse matrix multiplication for machine learning models, particularly focusing on structured sparsity. Structured sparsity involves a ...
Business Wire

SiFive’s New RISC-V IP Combines Scalar, Vector and Matrix Compute to Accelerate AI from the Far Edge IoT to the Data Center

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Further expanding SiFive’s lead in RISC-V AI IP, the company today launched its 2nd Generation Intelligence™ family, featuring five new RISC-V-based products ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

RRAM-based analog computing system rapidly solves matrix equations with high precision

Analog computers are systems that perform computations by manipulating physical quantities such as electrical current, that ...