This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters that may be confused with others in your current locale. If your use case is intentional and legitimate, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to highlight these characters.
---
title: "OpenPOWER Summit North America 2019: Unleash the Power of Customized Accelerators"
date: "2019-09-25"
categories:
- "blogs"
tags:
- "openpower"
- "ibm"
- "fpga"
- "openpower-foundation"
- "openpower-summit-north-america"
- "opencapi-acceleration-framework"
- "oc-accel"
---
By: Hugh Blemings, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation
Porting functions to FPGA has never been so easy!
At this year’s [OpenPOWER Summit North America](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/openpower-summit-north-america-2019/), IBM’s Yong Lu hosted a session on the OpenCAPI Acceleration Framework, abbreviated as OC-Accel. OC-Accel is a platform that enables programmers and computer engineers to quickly create FPGA-based accelerations.
Developers can use OC-Accel to boost acceleration performance. The framework enables global memory sharing, open and easy developing, improved latency and increased throughput. (In fact, OC-Accel actually enables the best throughput performance in the world!)
To learn more about the benefits of OC-Accel, watch the full session below.