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Security is critical for any modern embedded system – and thus also for FPGAs, – but FPGAs could also be the key to better embedded systems security.
For FPGA-forum 2025 we wanted an opening keynote on FPGA and Security, and this is a very welcome result of that request.
(See also article in Elektronikknett – in Norwegian.)

FPGAAIPQCCRABBQ, or How to Decode (Survive?) The Cyber Storm

Presented by Anthony Cartolano, Altera FPGA Security Expert

Cybersecurity has captured headlines with an alarming increase in frequency. Between AI, quantum computers, software platforms, and government inquiries, it has been difficult to avoid daily disruptions, much less complete a reasonable product development cycle. In this talk, we’ll examine how recent trends, including artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography and more are placing incredible demands on product designers. We’ll show how and why FPGAs are uniquely suited to help designers both survive the current storm of rapidly changing requirements and prepare to respond to challenges throughout their lifecycle. Finally, we’ll discuss how FPGAs are already prepared to meet the requirements of the Cyber Resilience Act.

FPGA-forum 2025 will be Wednesday-Thursday 5-6 February.

Reserve the dates in your calendar allready now, and if you allready have some ideas for a presentation at this event, send us an email, We are ready to receive 🙂

The Opening Keynote will be on a subject that is important for almost everybody. This will be published very soon.

Avnet Silica will arrange a multi themed workshop on Tuesday 13 February.
You can find information about this in the Programme.

The Opening Keynote presentation will still be the same, but with a different presenter.
The Opening Keynote presenter will be Thomas Preusser, Principal Engineer and Heterogeneous Digital Systems Research Engineer at AMD

Bio:

Thomas is a principal engineer and the FINN project lead at AMD Research. Thomas earned a PhD from TU Dresden in 2011. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher both there and at ETH Zürich. He also enjoyed an EU-funded Individual Maria-Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the Xilinx Research Labs in Dublin. His scientific background is computer arithmetic, application acceleration and systems design using FPGAs. His current focus lies on advancing FINN, a tool for the generation of custom embedded neural-network inference solutions.

The Full programme – including all presentations, tracks and exhibitors is now available

Program – FPGA-forum

Please register as soon as possible to reduce the workload for the committee, and remember to book your hotel room before it is too late.

Registration is now open. Note that exhibitors have a separate registration.

Registration – FPGA-forum

The program has just been updated and now contains almost all presentations.

Most presentations and exhibitors are now included in the programme.

We expect a full programme with tracks and time slots by week 50.

Program – FPGA-forum

 FPGA-forum has succeeded in getting a very interesting opening keynote for FPGA.forum in February.  Michaela Blott is a senior Fellow at AMD and a major expert on FPGA and AI. This opening keynote will be of great interest to the FPGA community - and really anyone who finds embedded AI exciting. 

See article in Elektronikknett in Norwegian.

Opening Keynote:
Pervasive and Sustainable AI with Adaptive Computing

In the context of AI, we face a plethora of challenges that extend beyond the widely discussed performance scalability required to meet the growing demands of compute and storage in the latest models. These challenges encompass sustainability, pervasiveness, agility, and diversity, all of which are needed to cater to a constantly evolving range of applications and algorithms from endpoint to edge and cloud. In this talk, we explore how adaptive devices and agile compiler stacks can provide solutions by delivering post-production hardware specialization and co-designed algorithms. This results in highly optimized AI systems which not only provide the necessary performance scalability but also bring a reduction in carbon footprint while addressing the needs of a broad range of diverse applications with the necessary agility.

Calls for presentations, exhibition and workshops are now out.
Check: Call for contributions – FPGA-forum

FPGA-forum 2024 will be Wednesday-Thursday February 14-15.

After the Covid exception of having FPGA-forum in September in 2022, we decided to go back to February, as there is normally less happening at this time of the year in the Embedded community and because Hotel availability is better.

Reserve the dates in your calendar allready now, and if you allready have some ideas for a presentation at this event, send us an email, We are ready to receive 🙂