Florent and Martin's talk

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+    <div class="community-talk">
+      <div class="when">
+        December 7, 2023
+      </div>
+      <div class="title">
+        Application-specific arithmetic
+      </div>
+      <div class="speaker">
+        Florent de Dinechin (INSA-Lyon/Inria) and Martin Kumm (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)
+      </div>
+      <div class="abstract">
+        A software designer has to carefully select the arithmetic that best
+        suits each step of her application, but the choice is constrained: only
+        a handful of operators are supported in hardware, in only in a handful
+        of precisions.
+        Conversely, when designing for hardware or FPGAs, these constraints
+        become degrees of freedom. Any precision can be designed, any number
+        encoding, but also any operation and function, provided you are clever
+        enough to implement it efficiently as a circuit.
+        <br>
+        This talk will expose some of the opportunities offered by this freedom,
+        and some of the methodologies and tools that allow a designer to build
+        and compose application-specific operators.
+        It may include some inadvertent advertising for our upcoming 800-page
+        book dedicated to these topics.
+      </div>
+    </div>
+
     <div class="community-talk">
       <div class="when">
         November 2, 2023