3rd FPGA Developers' Forum (FDF) meeting

Session

Introduction

May 27, 2026, 2:00 PM

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Conveners

Introduction

• Francesco Gonnella (University of Birmingham (GB))

167. Welcome to FDF26

Davide Cieri (Max Planck Society (DE))

5/27/26, 2:00 PM

168. What Star Trek can teach us about using AI in FPGA design

Mr Adam Taylor (Adiuvo Engineering)

5/27/26, 2:10 PM

Like many engineers, I was initially sceptical of AI and its capabilities. However, over the last few years it has grown to be something FPGA engineers cannot ignore.

Can it help us as FPGA engineers do our jobs better, faster, smarter? In many ways, it’s the next natural layer of abstraction in FPGA design, extending a progression that has taken us from Boolean logic to schematics, HDLs...