One of the best, most insightful (no pun intended) conferences each year is the Embedded Vision Summit, May 12, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, not far from Cadence’s HQ offices. If you want to incorporate visual intelligence into your products, you need to go to this conference. Hot topics include convolutional neural networks, image recognition, image search, 3D vision, specialized vision processors, standards-based APIs, low-power vision, and deep learning.
Cadence is a sponsor of this event. You can visit us at the technology showcase, where we’ll be demonstrating our Tensilica® IVP Image/Vision DSP. The showcase is open from noon until 7:30 pm.
Tensilica Founder and Cadence® Fellow Chris Rowen will present on “Designing and Selecting Instruction Sets for Vision” from 4:00pm – 5:30pm. In his talk, Chris will discuss two critical technical trends that have reached important inflection points: the massive compute demands of vision processing and the capabilities of specialized vision processors.
This talk serves as a step-by-step tutorial on how to dissect a suite of applications, extract the key computational and memory requirements, and determine priorities for processor instruction set and memory organization for optimal vision processing. We will walk through large-scale application profiling; do data type analysis; outline selection of operations; examine tradeoffs in SIMD, VLIW, and specialized execution units; and drill down on resource constraints that impact power, energy, cost, memory system demands, and programming flexibility. We will take a set of real-world applications from ADAS, deep neural network image recognition, and multi-frame imaging as targets and illustrate the process for assessing and selecting vision processors.
Chris was a member of the founding team at MIPS. Filling a variety of roles, he became VP of microprocessor development and head of their European operations when Silicon Graphics acquired the company. In 1996, he moved back to California to be VP and GM of Synopsys's Design Re-Use Group. He left Synopsys to start Tensilica because he had an idea for a unique processor architecture that was designed, from the beginning, to be easily and automatically configurable and extensible. With Cadence’s acquisition of Tensilica in 2013, Chris is now Tensilica Founder and Cadence Fellow.
See you there!