FPL International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
Call for papers
Submission Deadline -- March 16, 2008 Acceptance Notification -- May 21, 2008
The International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) is the first and largest conference covering the rapidly growing area of field-programmable logic. During the past 17 years, many of the advances achieved in reconfigurable architectures, applications, design methods and tools have been first published in the proceedings of the FPL conference series.
Its objective is to bring together researchers and industry from all over the world for a wide ranging discussion of FPGAs, including, but not limited to: applications, advanced electronic design automation (EDA), novel system architectures, embedded processors, arithmetic, dynamic reconfiguration.
FPL is organized yearly in Europe and attended by top-level scientists and researchers. The 18th FPL continues the tradition of the previous editions and will be hosted by the Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany, from September 08 to 10, 2008.
The Program Committee cordially invites you to participate and submit your contribution to FPL 2008. The conference topics include, but are not limited to:
Low power architectures
- Defect and fault-tolerance
- Reconfigurable instruction set processors and MPSoC architectures
- Field-programmable analogue arrays
- Interconnect and NoCs
Communication and networking
- Security
- Bioinformatics
- Application acceleration
- Evolvable and bio-inspired applications
- Medical solutions
- Experiments for High Energy Physics
- Astronomy
- Aerospace
CAD for reconfigurable architectures
- Dynamic hardware reconfiguration
- Optimization and technology mapping
- System-level design methods
- Testing, verification and benchmarking
- Hardware/software co-design
- Compilers and languages
- Rapid prototyping
- Radiation tolerance and reliability
Roadmap of reconfigurable computing
- Teaching reconfigurable systems
- History and surveys of reconfigurable logic
- Emerging device technologies
- Tutorials
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished contributions as either 6 page papers to be considered as regular papers (submissions accepted as posters will have 4 pages) or 2 page extended abstracts for PhD forum contributions. The page limit is strict and includes tables, figures and references. All contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF format via the web page linked at
FPL's PhD forum is intended as a venue for PhD students to present their work and receive feedback from other researchers. Papers accepted to the PhD forum will be published in the conference proceedings and presented at a special poster session during the conference. Contributions to the PhD forum based on preliminary results of work in progress are particularly encouraged.
Proposals for tutorials within the technical scope of the conference are solicited. Submissions should be done through email directly to the Program Chairs ( snipped-for-privacy@cs.fau.de, snipped-for-privacy@upb.de)
General Chair Udo Kebschull, University of Heidelberg
Program Chairs Marco Platzner, University of Paderborn J=FCrgen Teich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Finance Chairs Volker Lindenstruth, University of Heidelberg Udo Kebschull, University of Heidelberg
Publicity Chairs Philip Leong, University of Hong Kong David Thomas, Imperial College Mike Wirthlin, Brigham Young University
Sponsor and Exhibition Chairs Mike Hutton, Altera Endric Schubert, ESICS
PhD Forum Chairs Adam Donlin, Xilinx Stefan B=F6ttger, University of Heidelberg
Web Chair Norbert Abel, University of Heidelberg
Local Arrangements Chair and Conference Secretary Beatrice B=E4hr, University of Heidelberg
Steering Committee: J=FCrgen Becker, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Koen Bertels, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands Eduardo Boemo, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Peter Y.K. Cheung, Imperial College London, UK Jose T. de Sousa, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Manfred Glesner, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany John Gray, Independent Consultant, UK Reiner Hartenstein, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Andres Keevallik, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia Wayne Luk, Imperial College London, UK Patrick Lysaght, Xilinx, Inc., USA Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Lionel Torres, University of Montpellier II, France Serge Vernalde, IMEC, Belgium Roger Woods, Queen's University of Belfast, UK