Clemson Student Uses Artificial Intelligence to Gain 10x Speedup on Altera Cyclone FPGA

Sometimes it's hard to explain how much faster software logic can run when it is deployed in hardware. In a clever benchmarking experiment that incorporates simple logic refactoring, artificial intelligence, and machine compilation from software to FPGA hardware, a Clemson student took a popular board game and turbo-charged it 10x in an Altera Cyclone FPGA.

"Blokus-Duo" is a two-player strategy-based board game. It is a compact version of the original Blokus game. Its small size, progressive logic, and strategy-based approach makes Blokus-Duo a highly suitable application for performance evaluation of various Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques on limited resource platforms like smaller Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

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