News

Design IP sales grew 20.2% in 2022 after 19.4% in 2021 and 16.7% in 2020

Source: Semiwiki, April 21, 2023 [1]
Design IP revenues had achieved $6.67B in 2022, after $5.56B in 2021, or 20.2% growth after 19.4% in 2021 and 16.7% in 2020. IPnest has released the “Design IP Report” in April 2023, ranking IP vendors by category (CPU, DSP, GPU & ISP, Wired Interface, SRAM Memory Compiler, Flash Memory Compiler, Library and I/O, AMS, Wireless Interface, Infrastructure and Misc. Digital) and by nature (License and Royalty).

Demand for robot vision system is anticipated to reach $7 billion by 2033

Source: Robotics & Automation News, April 26, 2023 [2]
The global robot vision system market is likely to be worth $2,690.4 million in 2023 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 10.4 percent during the forecast years of 2023-2033.

ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #20

Source: Acceleration Robotics, April 25, 2023 [3]
Join the exciting ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group on its 20th meeting to discuss how hardware acceleration and custom compute architectures can speed up robotics. The goal of this meeting is to review the progress we have made over the last week and report on the current status of the group. The meeting is scheduled to be 30 minutes.

What to expect from AMD’s Q1 results?

Source: Forbes, April 26, 2023 [4]
AMD is expected to publish its Q1 FY'23 results on May 2, with revenues coming in at $5.3 billion and earnings coming in at $0.55 per share. Revenues are expected to come in at $5.3 billion, with a year-over-year decline of 10%.

The robots are coming in to take our jobs, but maybe it’s not a bad thing

Source: PostIndependent, April 13, 2023 [5]
We are all starting to get a little worried the robots are going to take all of our jobs. What many of us haven’t expected is that robots can actually bring some much-needed relief for employees.

Accelerating chip design with GPUs, and adding AI to push it further

Source: The Next Platform, April 20, 2023 [6]
Two decades ago, all the chip makers, including Intel, had to buy Unix machines, usually massive ranks of Sparc/Solaris systems, to do electronic design automation to design and test their chip designs. Intel coveted that server business, and at the same time caught the Linux bug and obviously had a strong motivation to move EDA to X86 platforms.

Nailing the Demo

Source: General Robots , March 27, 2023 [7]
If you work with robots, at some point you are going to have to do a demo for an Important Person. This could be a VC, a potential customer, an executive or a journalist you hope will write the “Cool New Robot Company Doing Awesome Things” article instead of the “Welp, I Guess Robots Are Still a Long Way Off” article.

Papers

FPGA-based LoongArch five-stage pipeline CPU

Source: Journal of Physics, March 11, 2023 [8]
They designed and implemented a five-stage pipeline CPU based on the FPGA platform, using Bubble and Bypass techniques to solve parameter passing and branch judgment problems. It can be used in learning and research related to pipeline CPUs.

Design of a soft-core processor in FPGA

Source: ResearchGate, January, 2023 [9]
Soft-core processors are customizable for a given application and can be synthesized for implementation in reconfigurable hardware platforms. This paper has designed, simulated and tested an 8-bit VHDL based soft-core processor for small to medium complexity control applications.

Previous Hardware Acceleration in Robotics Newsletters

  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #56 - EU legislators strike deal on €43B chips plan, Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales reach all-time record $108 billion and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #55 - India is the world’s next tech manufacturing hub, EU chips act likely to get green light on April 18 -sources and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #54 - The age of acceleration engines, Keys to using ROS 2 & other frameworks for medical robots, Autonomous mobile robots market expected to expand at 22 percent a year and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #53 - Robotekin, the Basque robotics and automation association, Automotive industry sets record by employing 1M robots and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #52 - Nvidia works with TSMC, ASML and Synopsis on software to speed up chipmaking, Keys to developing autonomous vehicle software and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #51 - PRESS RELEASE: Peer Robotics partners with Acceleration Robotics to bring hardware acceleration to their collaborative AMR, ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #16 and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #50 - How the EU chips act could build "Innovation capacity" in Europe, How Efinix is conquering the hurdle of hardware acceleration for devices at the edge and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #49 - ROS 2 HAWG - meeting #15, 600 for-profit companies using ROS and ROS 2, Acceleration Robotics is growing, January 2023 robotics investments total US $521 million and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #48 - RobotPerf, benchmarking interest for robots grows, Acceleration Robotics announces the 1st meeting of the Architectures and Processors Working Group (GTAP) of the AESEMI and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #47 - ROS 2 HAWG #15, 2022 ROS 2 metrics report, Robot sales reach a new high in 2022, When will the mobile robot market consolidate? and more

Past ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group meetings

  1. Esteve, E. (2023, April 21). Design IP sales grew 20.2% in 2022 after 19.4% in 2021 and 16.7% in 2020! Semiwiki. https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-services/327734-design-ip-sales-grew-20-2-in-2022-after-19-4-in-2021-and-16-7-in-2020/ ↩︎

  2. Allinson, M. (2023, April 26). Demand for robot vision system is anticipated to reach $7 billion by 2033. Robotics & Automation News. https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2023/04/26/demand-for-robot-vision-system-is-anticipated-to-reach-7-billion-by-2033/67661/ ↩︎

  3. https://www.linkedin.com/events/ros2hardwareaccelerationworking7056728419631345665/ ↩︎

  4. What to expect from AMD’s Q1 results? (2023, April 26). Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2023/04/26/what-to-expect-from-amds-q1-results/?sh=7e1995e3f888 ↩︎

  5. Ballard, C. (2023, April 13). The robots are coming in to take our jobs, but maybe it’s not a bad thing. News Glenwood Springs Colorado | PostIndependent.com | PostIndependent.com. https://www.postindependent.com/news/the-robots-are-coming-in-to-take-our-jobs-but-maybe-its-not-bad-thing/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email ↩︎

  6. Burt, J. (2023, April 20). Accelerating chip design with GPUs, and adding AI to push it further. The Next Platform. https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/04/20/accelerating-chip-design-with-gpus-and-adding-ai-to-push-it-further/ ↩︎

  7. Holson, B. (2023, March 27). Nailing the demo. General Robots | Benjie Holson | Substack. https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/nailing-the-demo ↩︎

  8. Lin, C., Xiao, M., & Xiang, J. (2023, March 11). FPGA-based LoongArch five-stage pipeline CPU. Journal of Physics. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2450/1/012058/pdf ↩︎

  9. Design of a soft-core processor in FPGA. (2023, January). ResearchGate | Find and share research. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369233268_Design_of_A_Soft-Core_Processor_in_FPGA ↩︎