Advanced Computing in the Age of AI | Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Mipsology and E-Elements Sign APAC Design Partnership for FPGA-Based Neural Network Inference Acceleration 

SILICON VALLEY, Calif., April 14, 2021 -- AI software innovator Mipsology today announced a design partnership with E-Elements, a Taiwan-based supplier of professional FPGA service training, design, and technological services. E-Elements will bundle Xilinx solutions enhanced with Mipsology’s Zebra AI inference accelerator in products and services designed for the Asian medical, robotics, and autonomous transportation industries.

"Combining the strong FPGA expertise of E-Elements with the excellence of Mipsology’s solution for Machine Learning makes a perfect match to deliver best-in-class solutions to the industry," said Young Wang, President, of E-Elements. "Zebra will help us accelerate the time to market for our customers’ high-performance AI solutions - from data center to the Edge and embedded, with lower costs and longer lifespan than GPU-based systems.”

FPGAs are better suited than GPUs to accelerate decisioning (i.e., inferencing) for large industrial AI applications like digital imaging, industrial robotics and autonomous cars. However, FPGA programming requires the significant knowledge and expertise of specialized, hard-to-find hardware designers. Zebra eliminates the need for FPGA expertise to compute neural networks, making them as easy to use for deep learning inference acceleration as CPU/GPU. Running neural networks defined with TensorFlow or PyTorch on FPGAs would normally require considerable manual development time and effort; Zebra makes neural network deployment instant and effortless.

"E-Elements has an impressive history of delivering solutions to their customers," said Ludovic Larzul, CEO and founder of Mipsology. "They understand requirements across a wide variety of markets in Taiwan and China, making them a prime addition to our growing ecosystem. We are already working together on systems that integrate machine learning and other functions on a single FPGA, making our position unique in allowing deployment of more robust complex solutions for high demand industries.”

About E-Elements

Founded in 2004, E-Elements engages in advanced FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) system design, training, technological consultation services, and supplying laboratory equipment of universities. The company aims at establishing long-term strategic partnerships with world-leading PLD/SOC manufacturers to offer leading SOC/FPGA/ASIC design services to customers with high-tech and competitive solutions and cooperate with universities, research institutes and enterprises on new technology popularization. Learn more about E-Elements at www.e-elements.com.

About Mipsology

Mipsology is the first AI software innovator to achieve the highest inference performance with the flexibility to immediately meet the demands of a broad range of AI applications. Its flagship software platform, Zebra, is the first plug & play technology to accelerate the computations of inference for neural networks on FPGA and conceal the hardware complexity from AI users. Mipsology is led by a team of engineers and scientists who spent two decades developing world-leading FPGA-based supercomputers. The company has twelve patents pending, and is working with a growing ecosystem of silicon, system and distribution partners, including Xilinx, Western Digital, Advantech, Avnet, OKI and others. Learn more about Mipsology at www.mipsology.com.


Source: Mipsology

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