Announcement: KUPAC 11th Physical AI Study Group

Yoshio Seirin

Master's Program, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

「C++-Based, Beginner-Friendly Accelerator Circuit Design」

Many software developers feel that designing hardware accelerators has a high barrier to entry. However, circuit design can actually be done in familiar high-level languages such as C++, without writing low-level RTL directly. This talk outlines a practical end-to-end flow for designing accelerators in C++, with concrete examples. The goal is to lower the barrier for software-layer researchers and developers so they can step into the world of hardware accelerator design more comfortably.

Taro Tamitsu

SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)

「Robot Control from an Embedded Systems Perspective」

In recent robot research, attention often focuses on high-profile technologies such as reinforcement learning and VLA. Meanwhile, embedded topics inside robots, such as communication methods used to drive motors and read sensor data, are often left outside the main discussion. In this talk, we focus on humanoid robots, introduce their current system architecture, and summarize key challenges in the current state of the field.