Digi-Key at embedded world 2023 with Efinix
Summary
Formed in 2012, Efinix have built a team that are “changing the dynamics of how the FPGAs work, and their functionality, and the applications that they go into.” Their Quantum architecture is designed to be the leading programmable technology, delivering the best power, performance, and area for silicon products, with the goal to provide the most flexible programmable technology, tailored for compute-intensive applications including compute acceleration, machine learning, and deep learning. “Seeing all the disadvantages and the bottlenecks out of this architecture … our new XLR [eXchangeable Logic and Routing] technology combines both together. “With … Efinix FPGAs you can get onto your design right away, you can change it, you can debug it and you can bring it into the market … because of our architecture we’ve reduced that gap to A6”. Efinix RISC-V solution FPGA enables support of acceleration of the design and a custom instruction set of a RISC-V. “You want a robust solution, but you always want extremely low power so the [Efinix] FPGA is ideally suited to Edge applications. You can offload some of the processing power but there is very low latency and high throughput of performance all the way down the end user applications.” Efinix have also released a TinyML Platform for artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration on its range of FPGAs.