[HiPEAC-announce] FPL08: Call for Papers

[Frank Hannig]

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                             Call for papers

FPL International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
                            http://www.fpl.org

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Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished contributions as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
http://www.fpl.org (select submissions from the side menu).
The 2008 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and
Applications is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society. The conference proceedings will be published also
by the IEEE.

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 (teich at cs.fau.de, platzner at upb.de)

General Chair
Udo Kebschull, University of Heidelberg

Program Chairs
Marco Platzner, University of Paderborn
Jürgen Teich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Finance Chairs
Volker Lindenstruth, University of Heidelberg
Udo Kebschull, University of Heidelberg

Publicity Chairs
Philip Leong, Chinese 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 Böttger, University of Heidelberg

Web Chair
Norbert Abel, University of Heidelberg

Local Arrangements Chair and Conference Secretary
Beatrice Bähr, University of Heidelberg

Steering Committee:
Jürgen 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