Submissions should all be FPGA-related and be in at least one of the areas listed below.
Academic papers accepted for publication will be published by the ACM Digital Libraries.
Folowing types of tracks:
Track A – Industrial, Students or Hackers presentations, with focus on industrial or hackers projects/applications selected by the Industrial Program Committee. Hackers can have a demonstration in the hacker’s corner and/or a presentation.
Track B – Academic presentations of academic papers selected by the Academic Programme Committee.
Track C – Product presentations product presentations.

DESIGN METHODS – models and practices

Project methodology, models and practices
System Specifications, Models and Methodologies
System Modeling, Simulation and Validation
System Design, Synthesis and Optimization
Hardware/Software co-design
High-Level Synthesis
(Co-)Processor Synthesis
Architectural and Micro-Architectural Design
Reconfigurable Computing
IP Integration – models and practices
Security, Reliability and Fault Tolerance
Logic Synthesis, Power and Timing Analysis
Formal methods, Verification and validation
Board layout and verification

TOOLS

New Design Tools and Languages
Synthesis, Compilers, C-to-Hardware
Tool integration, Co-simulation, Hardware-in-the-loop testing
Design, modeling, implementation, verification and validation
Instrumentation, monitoring, testing, debugging etc

HW/SW IP COMPONENTS

IP component design
Interface/protocol design: supporting modularity
New IP components for platforms and applications
Real-time operating systems
File systems, USB/Internet communication etc

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE

Embedded Software Architectures
Compilers and Software Synthesis for Embedded Systems
HW/SW architectures, Custom Instructions
Real-time, Networked and Dependable Systems
Model-Based Design and Verification for Embedded Systems

EMBEDDED PLATFORM ARCHITECTURES

Embedded System Platforms
Single, Multi-, Many-core architectures
Networks-on-Chip
Memory hierarchy, Memory architectures
Reconfigurable architectures
Course-grained reconfigurable architectures
Low power architectures

APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES

Case studies from users in industry (academic and students will be highly prioritized)
HW/SW component presentations
Prototyping
Student work and projects

SURVEYS, TRENDS AND EDUCATION

Emerging technologies, Systems and Applications
History and surveys of reconfigurable logic
Tutorials