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 22 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 on FPGAs, including, but not limited to: applications, advanced electronic design automation (EDA), novel system architectures, embedded processors, arithmetic, and dynamic reconfiguration.

FPL is organized yearly in Europe and attended by international top-level scientists and researchers. The 23rd FPL continues the tradition of the previous editions, will take place in Porto, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on September 2-4, 2013, and will be hosted by the University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering (FEUP), Porto, Portugal, involving the Informatics Engineering Department and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. The conference venue will be at the Ipanema Park Hotel, located in the center of Porto.

Architectures
* Adaptive communication & NoCs
* Defect- and fault tolerance
* Field programmable analog arrays
* FPGAs vs. Multicores / GPUs
* Low power architectures
* Partial, run-time reconfiguration
* Reconfigurable embedded systems
* Self-awareness, self-adaptivity
* Self-testing, self-healing

Design Methods and Tools
* Compilers and languages
* Hardware / software co-design
* Logic optimization and technology mapping
* Open source tools
* Partial, run-time reconfiguration
* Placement and routing algorithms
* Radiation tolerance and reliability
* Rapid prototyping and emulation
* System-level design tools
* Testing, verification and benchmarks

Applications
* Aerospace and automotive
* Application acceleration
* Bioinformatics & bio-inspired systems
* Communications and networking
* Finance and database acceleration
* Scientific and High-Performance Computing
* Medical
* Physics and astronomy
* Security
* Signal processing and SDR

Surveys, Trends and Education
* Emerging device technologies
* History/surveys of reconfigurable logic
* Surveys, Trends and Education
* Million LUTs- / thousand cores designs
* Open source designs
* Roadmap of reconfigurable computing
* Teaching courses and tutorials