Section outline

  • Week 5 is concluding this course but posing interesting questions towards possible future research directions that may also point the students to other Coursera courses on FPGAs. We are working at the edge of the research in the area of reconfigurable computing. FPGA technologies are not used only as standalone solutions/platforms but are now included into cloud infrastructures. They are now used both to accelerate infrastructure/backend computations and exposed as-a-Service that can be used by anyone. Within this context we are facing the definition of new research opportunities and technology improvements and the time cannot be better under this perspective.