Professor Jason Cong delivered a keynote speech “Democratizing Customized Computing” at MICRO’22 on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, in Chicago.  His talk covered the latest research on automated accelerator synthesis and customized computing on FPGAs. As FPGAs have been the top of a lot of research in recent years, his presentation ranged from microarchitecture guided optimization, such as automated generation of highly optimized systolic arrays and stencil computation engines, to more general source-to-source transformation derived from graph-based neural networks and meta learning, and finally to latency-insensitive system-level integration.  His concluding remarks invite a community-wide effort in this direction.  The full presentation is available at https://ucla.box.com/s/gi8ltm8h5jl4vk1bj1nqx6hxenlkpiay.

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