Maxeler CEO delivers keynote speech at IEEE Cool Chips

April 19th, 2006

Oskar Mencer, Chief Executive Officer of Maxeler Technologies, delivers a keynote speech on "Computing with FPGAs" at IEEE Cool Chips IX symposium in Yokohama, Japan.

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) outperform microprocessors on certain tasks by many orders of magnitude. The key to successful FPGA computing lies in combining knowledge from compilers, software optimization, hardware design, computer arithmetic, and computer architecture with the domain specific knowledge of the particular application.

In order to achieve speedups of orders of magnitude while reducing the power consumption per computation, we depend on cross-layer optimizations from the gate level all the way to the algorithm. This talk shows several examples and illustrations of past and current successes and potential given the technology roadmaps for FPGAs and competing technologies.

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IEEE Cool Chips is one of the leading conferences in low power and high performance computing. The symposium covers leading-edge technologies in all areas of microprocessors and their applications.