Security, Synapses, Sustainability, and Superconducting: A Look at Possible Futures for the FPGA.

FPGAs are not just computational workhorses -- they are virtual laboratories for innovation -- a glimpse into our spatial and temporal computing future. No other technology allows you to break computations down into their underlying logical atoms so fully and then re-link them back together so fruitfully. This is an incredibly powerful capability, not just for achieving performance, but for analyzing, improving, securing, and understanding the nature of computations in a deep way. It can surface vulnerabilities hidden deep in a design, help us uncover computational truths about the brain, and unlock the latent potential in emerging technologies. In this talk we will dig into the logical representation of computations, the practical power of working at this lowest level, some of the most interesting and pressing problems we might wish to solve in this way, and exciting possible futures for the FPGA in helping to realize those solutions.