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Avnet and Syntiant Forge Strategic Alliance as Distribution Partners for Edge AI Technology
January 7, 2024
01/04/2024 – PHOENIX – Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, has entered into a distribution agreement with Syntiant, a leader in edge AI deployment. The partnership aims to combine Syntiant’s innovative hardware edge AI solutions with Avnet’s extensive distribution capabilities, potentially accelerating the adoption of AI technologies across various sectors. Syntiant’s Neural Decision Processors bring ultra-low-power advanced sensing and decision-making […]
Avnet Demonstration of Its Edge AI Kit for Fast Stereo Face Recognition with NXP’s i.MX 8M Plus MPU
August 2, 2023
Monica Houston, Advanced Application Group AI/ML team manager at Avnet, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Houston demonstrates Avnet’s Edge AI Kit, which provides stereo vision capabilities that help ensure facial recognition is accurate and secure, in action. Houston also explains what’s included […]
Avnet Demonstration of the RZBoard V2L for Energy-efficient AI Acceleration with the Renesas RZ/V2L
August 1, 2023
Evan Stoddard, Advanced Applications Group Embedded Software Engineer at Avnet, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Stoddard demonstrates Avnet’s RZ board for energy-efficient AI acceleration, featuring the Renesas RZ/V2L processor. In the demo, various AI/ML models are executed on the energy-efficient DRP-AI accelerator […]
Avnet Demonstration of RASynBoard, a Low-power, Always-on, Edge AI Smart Sensor Module
Peter Fenn, Advanced Applications Group Director at Avnet, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Fenn demonstrates why Avnet’s compact, embeddable RASynBoard module is an ideal solution for battery powered, edge-AI applications requiring always-on sound and sensor fusion processing. Based on the Syntiant NDP120 […]
“Selecting Image Sensors for Embedded Vision Applications: Three Case Studies,” a Presentation from Avnet
July 19, 2023
Monica Houston, Technical Solutions Manager at Avnet, presents the “Selecting Image Sensors for Embedded Vision Applications: Three Case Studies,” tutorial at the May 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Selecting the appropriate type of image sensor is essential for reliable and accurate performance of vision applications. In this talk, Houston explores some of the critical factors to […]
“Battery-powered Edge AI Sensing: A Case Study Implementing Low-power, Always-on Capability,” a Presentation from Avnet
June 21, 2023
Peter Fenn, Director of the Advanced Applications Group at Avnet, presents the “Battery-powered Edge AI Sensing: A Case Study Implementing Low-power, Always-on Capability” tutorial at the May 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. The trend of pushing AI/ML capabilities to the edge brings design challenges around the need to combine high-performance computing (for AI/ML algorithms) with low […]
RASynBoard Brings Low-power, Edge AI Processing to Embedded Sensor Applications
March 9, 2023
Avnet offers compact sensor module and development kit for always-on sensing March 7, 2023 – PHOENIX – The RASynBoard development kit from Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT) can help hardware and software design engineers and embedded AI developers quickly adopt edge AI capabilities into their products, making them more efficient, accurate and reliable. It was created in […]
Renesas Demonstration of Its MPU RZ/V Series With an Embedded AI Accelerator and Avnet’s RZ/V2L SBC
February 2, 2023
Dirk Seidel, Strategic Business Development Manager at Renesas Electronics, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the December 2022 Edge AI and Vision Innovation Forum. Specifically, Seidel demonstrates the company’s MPU RZ/V series solutions, along with partner (and fellow Alliance Member) Avnet’s RZ/V2L single-board computer (SBC). The RZ/V series includes […]
Avnet Demonstration of Vision AI Acceleration Using the Renesas RZ/V2L Processor
October 7, 2022
Jason Lambert, Embedded Software Engineer at Avnet, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Lambert demonstrates various features of RZBoard, a new AI development board in a Raspberry Pi-type form factor. The RZ/V2L processor on this board includes advanced features such as a DRP-AI […]
Avnet Demonstration of Lighting-fast Stereo Facial Recognition with NXP’s i.MX 8M Plus
October 6, 2022
Monica Houston, Technical Marketing Manager at Avnet, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Houston demonstrates a stereo facial recognition application running on Avnet’s Edge AI Development Kit. The kit is based on a production-ready SMARC module from Avnet Embedded and uses NXP’s i.MX […]
Avnet Demonstration of Low-cost, High Performance Machine Vision Using AMD’s Zynq Ultrascale+
Tom Curran, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Curran demonstrates Avnet’s new ZUBoard 1CG, a low-cost, flexible development platform for AMD’s new Zynq Ultrascale+ ZU1CG MPSoC device. The ZUBoard is running a face detection application, leveraging both […]
“Jumpstart Your Edge AI Vision Application with New Development Kits from Avnet,” a Presentation from Avnet
June 27, 2022
Monica Houston, Technical Solutions Manager at Avnet, presents the “Jumpstart Your Edge AI Vision Application with New Development Kits from Avnet” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Choosing the right processing solution for your embedded vision application can make or break your next development effort. This presentation introduces three next-generation embedded vision platforms […]
“Accelerating Time to an Image Processing Prototype,” a Presentation from Avnet
November 4, 2020
Adam Taylor, Founder and Principal Consultant at Adiuvo Engineering and Training, along with Dan Rozwood, Engineer, and Kevin Keryk, Software Engineering Manager and Machine Learning Specialist, both of Avnet, present the “Accelerating Time to an Image Processing Prototype” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. In this Over-the-Shoulder session, you will learn how you […]
Avnet Demonstration of Sensor Fusion Acceleration Using the Xilinx reVISION Stack
May 18, 2017
Mario Bergeron, Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Bergeron explains how the Xilinx reVISION stack was used to target a sensor fusion algorithm on the Avnet PicoZed Embedded Vision Kit. Written entirely in C/C++, the image fusion algorithm was […]
Avnet Electronics Demonstration of GigE Vision
October 26, 2015
Mario Bergeron, Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet Electronics Marketing, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Bergeron demonstrates a GigE Vision application developed by partner Sensor to Image and running on a carrier board comprised of a SOM (System on Module) based on Xilinx's Zynq-7000 […]
Avnet Electronics Demonstration of Face Analytics
September 30, 2015
Mario Bergeron, Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet Electronics Marketing, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Bergeron demonstrates a face analytics application developed by partner Xylon and running on a carrier board comprised of a SOM (System on Module) based on Xilinx's Zynq-7000 All-Programmable SoC.
May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit Technical Presentation: “System-level Design for Embedded Vision with FPGA-based Programmable SoCs,” Mario Bergeron, Avnet Electronics Marketing
June 22, 2015
Mario Bergeron, Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet Electronics Marketing, presents the "System-Level Design for Embedded Vision with FPGA-based Programmable SoCs" tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit. FPGA-based programmable system-on-chip (SoC) devices offer capabilities beyond those found in traditional embedded processors. The programmability and vast parallel processing capabilities of the FPGA fabric allow developers […]
October 2013 Embedded Vision Summit Product Demonstration: Avnet Electronics (Xilinx)
December 12, 2013
Mario Bergeron, Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet Electronics, demonstrates a Canny edge detection OpenCV algorithm running on the MicroZed board and image processing algorithms running on the ZedBoard (both boards based on the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC and co-developed with fellow Alliance member company Xilinx) at the October 2013 Embedded Vision Summit East. For the […]
October 2013 Embedded Vision Summit Product Demonstration: Avnet Electronics (Analog Devices)
Mario Bergeron, Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet Electronics, demonstrates an object identification algorithm running on the BlackFin BF609-based FinBoard (co-developed with fellow Alliance member companies Analog Devices and BDTI) at the October 2013 Embedded Vision Summit East. For the remainder of the Avnet demo video, please visit this page.
April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit Product Presentation: Avnet Electronics Marketing
May 30, 2013
Matt Brown, Global Technical Marketing Manager at Avnet Electronics Marketing, presents the Analog Devices ADSP-BF609-based FinBoard Embedded Vision Starter Kit at the April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit.
April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit Technical Presentation: “Targeting Computer Vision Algorithms to Embedded Hardware,” Mario Bergeron, Avnet
May 14, 2013
Mario Bergeron, Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet Electronics, presents the "Targeting Computer Vision Algorithms to Embedded Hardware" tutorial within the "Developing Vision Software, Accelerators and Systems" technical session at the April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit. This presentation explores how computer vision algorithms can be targeted to embedded hardware, including FPGAs. Topics include efficient movement of […]
September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit Product Demonstration: Avnet
November 5, 2012
Mario Bergeron, Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet Electronics Marketing, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit.
September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit Panel: Avnet, CogniVue, and Synopsys
October 29, 2012
Jeff Bier, Embedded Vision Alliance Founder, moderates a discussion panel comprised of the presenters in the "Embedded Vision Applications and Algorithms" technical session at the September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit; Mario Bergeron from Avnet, Simon Morris from CogniVue, and Bo Wu from Synopsys. The panelists discuss topics such as the ability to derive depth approximation […]
September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit Presentation: “Addressing System Design Challenges in Embedded Vision,” Mario Bergeron, Avnet
October 20, 2012
Mario Bergeron, Technical Marketing Engineer at Avnet Electronics Marketing, presents the "Addressing System Design Challenges in Embedded Vision" tutorial within the "Using Tools, APIs and Design Techniques for Embedded Vision" technical session at the September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit. Embedded vision applications need to move video data from the image sensor to processing and storage […]
