{"id":208,"date":"2019-06-24T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/?p=208"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:59:41","slug":"semiwiki-why-go-custom-in-ai-accelerators-revisited-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/2019\/06\/24\/semiwiki-why-go-custom-in-ai-accelerators-revisited-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SemiWiki: Why Go Custom in AI Accelerators, Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Excerpt from article: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/semiwiki.com\/5g\/287182-why-go-custom-in-ai-accelerators-revisited\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Go Custom in AI Accelerators, Revisited<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I believe I asked this question a year or two ago and answered it for the absolute bleeding edge of datacenter performance \u2013 Google TPU and the like. Those hyperscalars (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Baidu, Alibaba, etc) who want to do on-the-fly recognition in pictures so they can tag friends in photos, do almost real-time machine translation, and many other applications. But who else cares? I\u2019ve covered a couple of <a href=\"https:\/\/semiengineering.com\/entities\/mentor-a-siemens-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Siemens EDA<\/a> events on using Catapult HLS to build custom accelerators. Fascinating stuff and good insights to the methods and benefits, but I wanted to know more about what kind of applications are using this technology.<\/p><p>I talked to the Catapult group to get some answers: Mike Fingeroff (technologist for Catapult), Russ Klein (Product Marketing for Catapult) and Anoop Saha (Senior manager, strategy and Biz Dev for machine learning and 5G).<\/p><cite>Bernard Murphy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the entire article on <a href=\"https:\/\/semiwiki.com\/5g\/287182-why-go-custom-in-ai-accelerators-revisited\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SemiWiki<\/a> originally published on June 24th, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from article: \u201cWhy Go Custom in AI Accelerators, Revisited\u201c I believe I asked this question a year or two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[365],"industry":[],"product":[84],"coauthors":[349],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai-accelerators","product-catapult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/hlsdesign-verification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}