Penn Today: a way for computer chips to run more efficiently
The University of Pennsylvania on the research behind Fluid Silicon and the President's Sustainability Prize awarded to Nhlanhla Mavuso for the project.
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A talk on FPGA timing health, for your team or your conference.
Variation, aging, margins, and what per-element measurement changes for fleets that run a decade. Technical and vendor-neutral.
- Engineering teams. A technical session with live measurements on a supported device family.
- Conferences and meetups. Reconfigurable computing, reliability, infrastructure and sustainability tracks.
- University groups. Research talks on variation and aging, with measurements from real silicon.
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In the newsNhlanhla Mavuso awarded Penn's President's Sustainability Prize for Fluid Silicon
Penn announces its 2026 prize recipients. The Sustainability Prize recognizes the work behind Fluid Silicon: running chips at their measured limits instead of a worst-case margin.
Penn TodayMeasure a device at speed, live.
A 30-minute session: in-system slack measurements on a supported AMD or Altera device, and what an evaluation on your boards involves.