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SUMMARY:Computing is so last century - John Grant\, Nine Tiles
DTSTART:20151117T161000Z
DTEND:20151117T165000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Abraham Martin
DESCRIPTION:Back in about 1980 we started building microprocessors into el
 ectronic equipment\, because they could do\, quite easily\, things that we
 re difficult or expensive to do with hard-wired logic. Now we have FPGAs t
 hat can do\, quite easily\, things (particularly in the areas such as proc
 essing live media) that need a lot of power to do with processors. And yet
  we haven't moved on from a mindset based on general-purpose CPUs: FPGA ve
 ndors build hard-wired CPUs into their products\, and high-level synthesis
  of FPGA logic requires the source to be written in languages such as C. T
 his talk explores how we might do better.
LOCATION:Norwich Room\, University Information Services\, West Cambridge
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