Towards robot accelerators, democratizing hardware acceleration in robotics

Re:Towards robot accelerators, democratizing hardware accele... by meowtastic on Monday July 25, 2022 @03:12AM (#32221407)

Looks impressive to a layman like myself. I'm guessing it addresses the global shortage of single-board computers like Raspberry Pis right? Curious to know how long it'll take to do that as well.

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Re:Towards robot accelerators, democratizing hardware accele... by vmayoral on Monday July 25, 2022 @08:46AM (#32223551)

Well, yes but not only. There's only so much you can do with Pis and other SBCs that offer a CPU-centric compute solution. Robots are real-time systems and CPUs don't excel at that.

When optimizing dataflows for lower latencies and higher throughputs, you typically seek specialized compute architectures and that's wherein GPUs and FPGAs come in. That's what this work really enables.

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Re:Towards robot accelerators, democratizing hardware accele... by meowtastic on Monday July 25, 2022 @11:02AM (#32225322)

I see, thanks for the explanation!

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