FPGA

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2014 ACM International Symposium on FPGAs (FPGA 2014). 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 114 submissions from 19 different countries. The program committee accepted 21 full (ten page) and 10 short (four page) papers, each of which are published in the proceedings, for an acceptance rate of 27%. Full papers each have a twenty minute oral presentation, while short papers will have a five minute oral presentation, followed by a poster presentation at which attendees can further discuss the work with the authors. Finally we will have four poster sessions in which a total of 45 additional research projects will be displayed on posters, and at which you may ask detailed questions of the authors.

This year the symposium begins with a workshop related to the emerging role of FPGAs in the datacenter. The symposium also includes an evening panel on the topic of low power FPGAs -- bring your questions for our panel of experts, and enjoy a lively discussion on whether FPGAs will make inroads into markets dominated by power, form factor and cost constraints.