FPGA

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2015 ACM International Symposium on FPGAs (FPGA 2015). This year's symposium continues the tradition of being a premier forum for the presentation of FPGA-related research across a wide variety of topics: new FPGA architectures and circuit designs, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and high level synthesis algorithms and flows, applications well-suited to FPGAs, and design studies. In addition to facilitating the sharing of research results through the paper and poster presentations, FPGA provides an excellent opportunity for researchers from around the world to mingle and discuss research results and ideas.

This year we received 102 submissions from 22 different countries. The program committee accepted 20 full (ten pages) and 7 short (four pages) research papers as well as 8 design/tutorial papers (four pages), each of which is published in the proceedings. The acceptance rate for research papers is 26%. Full papers each have a 25-minute oral presentation, while short papers will have a 5-minute oral presentation, followed by a poster presentation at which attendees can further discuss the work with the authors. In addition, we will have four poster sessions in which a total of 46 additional research projects will be displayed on posters, and at which you may ask detailed questions of the authors.

This year, the program begins with a new full-day event called Designer's Day, which will provide tutorials and design experiences on known-interesting topics for FPGA describing effective design techniques, design flows, methods, and new tool features. It features 8 oral presentations on various FPGA design/tutorial topics and a Keynote Speech to be given by the BEEcube CEO Chen Cheng. The symposium also includes an evening panel on the topic of Building a Healthy FPGA Ecosystem -- bring your questions for our panel of experts, and enjoy a lively discussion on how developers and vendors can bring killer applications, tools, and programmable logic devices to the market to accelerate datacenters for cloud computing.

We hope that you will find this program interesting and thought-provoking and that the symposium will provide you with a valuable opportunity to share ideas with other researchers and practitioners from institutions around the world.