Revolutionizing Real-Time Data Processing: CERN’s Ultra-Compact AI Models on FPGAs
Let’s break it down. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) An FPGA is a type of semiconductor that you can reprogram after it’s manufactured. Unlike a CPU (which runs instructions one after another) or a GPU (which runs thousands of threads in parallel), an FPGA can be rewired in hardware to perform a specific task – like running a tiny neural network – as fast as electricity travels through circuits. At CERN, FPGAs are not running code. They become the AI.