Introductory course to HLS FPGA programming.

Introduction to FPGA programming.

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The course is mainly thought for the new personnel hired by means of the ICSC project to work on projects and research activities in the framework of Spoke 2 ("Fundamental Research And Space Economy"), but open to anyone interested within the fundamental physics community.

Lecturers: 

• Giovanni Petruciiani (CERN), 
• Sioni Summers (CERN), 
• Mirko Mariotti (INFN)

Facilitators for the afternoon hands-on sessions: 

• Marco Lorusso, 
• Giulio Bianchini.

Prerequisits for a succesfull attendance and comprehension of the lessons:

• basic C++ programming with usage of  templates
• basic python programming
• entry level knowledge of machine learning (not really needed, but it may help for the last part of the course)

Connection details to the FPGA servers will been sent by email to the registered people.

The meeting will be on Zoom: https://cern.zoom.us/j/63436614964?pwd=c1ZZYldUOUo2UGo2cmlQdGxUbTkvdz09