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+** Script for start :noexport:
+
+Hi, I'm Yann and I will be presenting our work on formally verified high-level synthesis.
+
+Hardware accelerators are becoming increasingly more popular in many industries, because using a CPU
+for those tasks is often overkill, as one doesn't need the flexibility a CPU offers, and they
+therefore use up too much power.  Instead, one would ideally like to have a special chip that only
+does that one task, thereby using up less power and probably being more performant at that task.
+However, until recently, designing a special chip for each application is expensive.  This is where
+FPGAs come in, they are reprogrammable hardware, and allow it's circuit to be configured after it
+has left the factory.
+
 ** The Need to Design Hardware Accelerators
 
 Application-specific hardware accelerators are increasingly being needed in industries.