+ Florent de Dinechin (INSA-Lyon/Inria) and Martin Kumm (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)
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+ 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.
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+ 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.
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