Abbrevation
FPGA
City
Monterey
Country
United States
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<br>1&#046; Research Papers<br>We solicit research papers related to the following areas:<br>FPGA Architecture: Architectures for programmable logic fabrics or their components, including routing, flexible logic cells, embedded blocks (memory, DSP, processors), and I/O interfaces&#046; Novel commercial architectures and architectural features&#046;<br>FPGA Circuit Design: Circuits and layout techniques for design of FPGAs&#046; Impact of future process and design technologies on FPGAs&#046; Methods for analyzing and improving static and dynamic power, power and clock distribution, yield, manufacturability, security, reliability, and testability&#046; Use of novel memory or nano&#8211;scale devices in FPGAs&#046;<br>CAD for FPGAs: Algorithms for synthesis, technology mapping, logic and timing optimization, clustering, placement, and routing of FPGAs&#046; Novel design software for system&#8211;level partitioning, debug, and verification&#046; Algorithms for modeling, analysis and optimization of timing and power&#046; High&#8211;level abstractions and tools for FPGAs: general&#8211;purpose and domain&#8211;specific languages, tools, and techniques to facilitate the design, debugging and verification of FPGA&#8211;based applications and systems&#046; Examples include hardware/software co&#8211;design, high&#8211;level synthesis, digital signal processing, compute acceleration, networking, and embedded systems&#046;<br>FPGA&#8211;based and FPGA&#8211;like Computing Engines: Systems and software for compiled accelerators, reconfigurable computing, adaptive computing, and rapid&#8211;prototyping&#046;<br>Applications and Design Studies: Implementation of novel designs on FPGAs to achieve high&#8211;performance, low&#8211;power, security or high&#8211;reliability, making use of the unique flexibility provided by FPGA architectures&#046; Application&#8211;domain studies to analyze or improve FPGA architectures&#046;<br>Research submissions may be either:<br>Full: at most 10 pages, for a full presentation at the conference; or Short: at most 6 pages, for a brief presentation&#046; The presentation time allocated to each submission will be determined by the Program Committee&#046;<br>2&#046; The Potential Roles for FPGAs in Deep Learning<br>Deep learning has garnered significant visibility recently as an Artificial Intelligence (AI) paradigm, with success in wide ranging applications such as image and speech recognition, natural language understanding, self&#8211;driving cars, and game playing (e&#046;g&#046;, Alpha Go)&#046; The conference will devote a Wednesday pre&#8211;conference workshop towards the potential role of FPGAs in this important and fast&#8211;evolving domain&#046;<br>We are therefore seeking submissions on topic areas such as (but not limited to): tutorial papers on deep learning highlighting future challenges and the potential role of programmable hardware in addressing them, research/design papers detailing FPGA implementations of deep learning training/inference accelerators, unique applications of reconfigurability in deep learning context, domain&#8211;specific programmable hardware architectures for deep learning, the potential uses for deep learning techniques within FPGA CAD software (e&#046;g&#046;, for prediction and estimation)&#046;<br>Submissions should be at least 4 and at most 10 pages&#046; Accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings and allocated a presentation time of up to one hour, appropriate to the content&#046;<br>3&#046; Panel Discussion Proposals<br>We also solicit proposals for the panel discussion at the conference banquet&#046; The submission should outline the topic, questions to be addressed, and suggested speakers&#046;<br>