Hosted by Jeff Shepard, EE World has organized this “virtual conversation” with Gary Bronner (GB), Senior Vice President with Rambus Labs. Mr. Bronner has generously agreed to share his experience and insights into AI applications and emerging computing architectures.
Emerging Solutions
Lensless sensors and smart cities: Here’s looking at you, looking at me, looking at you
Smart cities. The term is everywhere. Across technology media to every vertical from transport to engineering, everyone wants to talk about smart cities. And it’s not hard to see why. When you say the words, you can’t help but find the imagination go into overdrive, building and piecing together exciting scenes from every sci-fi film you have seen, leaving you with an idea a thousand light years from the comparatively dull surroundings you find yourself in. The only problem is that the reality of smart cities is a lot more complex, and like contemporary cities, there are thousands of parts that make up the whole. One of the most interesting technologies that can enable smart cities may be lensless smart sensors (LSS).
Rambus Prototypes 2x2mm Lens-Less Eye Tracker for Headmount Displays
PARIS—At last week’s VLSI Symposia, Rambus presented a poster titled “Lensless Smart Sensors: Optical and Thermal Sensing for the Internet of Things” in which the company not only detailed the underlying technology but also demonstrated a working sensor prototype. The Lensless Smart Sensors (LSS) rely on a phase anti-symmetric diffraction grating (either tuned for optical or IR thermal sensing) mounted directly on top of a conventional imaging array and co-designed with computational algorithms that extract the relevant information from the scene to be imaged. The grating is very thin and boasts a wide field of view, up to 120º, and the resulting imaging sensor is almost flat (only a few hundred micrometres separate the grating from the image sensor).
These are the invisible cameras of the future
Hidden cameras are getting harder to spot: old, hefty spy gadgets you had to hide under a thick coat have been replaced tiny devices in the tips of pens that live stream HD video. Soon, thanks to new tech, spycams could even be entirely invisible.
Sensors Enable ADAS
Advanced driver assistance requires a careful and complex balance of hardware, software and security.
Addressing Modern Bottlenecks With Smart Data Acceleration
Over the past 30 years, the relentless progression of Moore’s Law has driven dramatic improvements in transistor counts and ultimately in processor performance.