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Description
Hastlayer (https://github.com/Lombiq/Hastlayer-SDK) is an open-source tool to increase the performance and decrease the power consumption of .NET applications by accelerating them with FPGAs. It converts standard .NET Common Intermediate Language (CIL) bytecode into equivalent VHDL constructs which can be implemented in hardware. The cloud-available Xilinx Alveo family of boards are supported for high-performance use-cases, as well as the Zynq 7000 family of FPGA SoC devices for low-power embedded systems like drones and nanosatellites. In this talk, we'll introduce Hastlayer and how it can be used, our results showing up to 2 orders of magnitude speed and power efficiency increases, as well as the collaboration partners we seek from academia and other industry players.
