First International Workshop on FPGAs for Software Programmers, Muenchen, Deutschland

Abbrevation

FSP

Link

http://www12.cs.fau.de/ws/fsp2014/

City

Muenchen

Country

Germany

Deadline Paper

2014-06-30

Start Date

2014-09-01

End Date

2014-09-01

Abstract

co–located with Int. Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) *Scope of the Workshop* The aim of this workshop is to make FPGA and reconfigurable technology accessible to software programmers. Despite their frequently proven power and performance benefits, designing for FPGAs is mostly an engineering discipline carried out by highly trained specialists. With recent progress in high–level synthesis, a first important step towards bringing FPGA technology to potentially millions of software developers was taken. However, to make this happen, there are still important issues to be solved that are in the focus of this workshop. *Topics of the FSP Workshop include, but are not limited to* o High–level synthesis and domain–specific languages (DSLs) for FPGAs and heterogeneous systemso Mapping approaches and tools for heterogeneous FPGAs o Support of hard IP blocks such as embedded processors and memory interfaces o Development environments for software engineers (automated tool flows, design frameworks and tools, tool interaction) o FPGA virtualization (design for portability, hardware abstraction, etc.) o Design automation technologies for multi–FPGA and heterogeneous systems o Methods for leveraging (partial) dynamic reconfiguration to increase performance, flexibility, reliability, or programmability o Operating system services for FPGA resource management, reliability, security o Target hardware design platforms (infrastructure, drivers, portable systems) o Overlays (CGRAs, vector processors, ASIP– and GPU–like intermediate fabrics) o Applications (embedded computing, signal processing, bio informatics, big data, database acceleration, etc.) o Directions for collaborations (research proposals, networking, Horizon 2020)