FPL 2016 — 26th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications

The International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) was the first and remains the largest conference covering the rapidly growing area of field-programmable logic and reconfigurable computing. During the past 25 years, many of the advances in reconfigurable system architectures, applications, embedded processors, design automation methods and tools were first published in the proceedings of the FPL conference series. The conference objective is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry and from around the world.

The 26th edition took place in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 29th August 2016 until 2nd September 2016. Tutorials and Workshops ran Monday and Friday while Tuesday through Thursday took place the main conference.

Venue

The conference was held on the EPFL campus in the brand-new Swiss Tech Convention Centre, a unique structure with a futuristic design. EPFL is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology. With the status of a federal polytechnic university since 1969, the young engineering school has grown in many dimensions, to the extent of becoming a world renown institution of science and technology. EPFL is located in Lausanne in Switzerland, on the shores of the largest Alpine lake, Lake Geneva, and at the foot of the Alps, close to Mont Blanc. It is easy to reach by air through Geneva airport (more than 100 cities with non-stop flights, frequent comfortable direct trains from inside the airport to Lausanne in about 50 minutes) and through Zurich airport (connected non-stop to around 200 cities, frequent comfortable direct trains from inside the airport to Lausanne in about two hours and a half).

Programme

Click on the above overview for a PDF version. Below is the detailed programme of the main conference. Click paper titles in the detailed programme to access, when available, the presentation slides in PDF or PowerPoint format. Full papers are available through IEEE Xplore.

Monday 29th August
Welcome Cocktail 6:00pm–7:30pm BC Cafeteria
Tuesday 30th August
Registration 8:15am–8:45am Foyer Grätzel
Welcome 8:45am–9:00am Auditorium B
Keynote K1: Configurable Clouds Doug Burger (Microsoft, US) Chair: Paolo Ienne 9:00am–10:00am Auditorium B
Coffee Break 10:00am–10:30am Foyer Grätzel
Session S1a: CAD Chair: Sinan Kaptanoglu 10:30am–12:35pm Auditorium B
10:30am	ParaFRo: A Hybrid Parallel FPGA Router Using Fine Grained Synchronization and Partitioning Chin Hau Hoo¹, Akash Kumar², Yajun Ha¹ ¹National University of Singapore, SG ²Technische Universitaet Dresden, DE
10:55am	Runtime-Quality Tradeoff in Partitioning Based Multithreaded Packing Dries Vercruyce, Elias Vansteenkiste, Dirk Stroobandt Ghent University, BE
11:20am	High-Speed PCAP Configuration Scrubbing on Zynq-7000 All Programmable SOCs Aaron Stoddard, Michael Wirthlin Brigham Young University, US
11:45am	Boosting Convergence of Timing Closure Using Feature Selection in a Learning-driven Approach Que Yanghua¹, Nachiket Kapre¹, Harnhua Ng² ¹ Nanyang Technological University, SG ² Plunify, Inc., SG
12:10pm	Liquid: Fast Placement Prototyping Through Steepest Gradient Descent Movement Elias Vansteenkiste, Seppe Lenders, Dirk Stroobandt Ghent University, BE
12:15pm	TeSHoP: A Temperature Sensing based Hotspot-Driven Placement Technique for FPGAs Weina Lu, Yu Hu, Jing Ye, Xiaowei Li Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN
12:20pm	Search-Based Synthesis of Approximate Circuits Implemented into FPGAs Zdenek Vasicek, Lukas Sekanina Brno University of Technology, CZ
12:25pm	Fast Hierarchical NPN Classification Ana Petkovska¹, Mathias Soeken¹, Giovanni De Micheli¹, Paolo Ienne¹, Alan Mishchenko² ¹EPFL, CH ²University of California, Berkeley, US
12:30pm	Improving the Efficiency of PUF-Based Key Generation in FPGAs Using Variation-Aware Placement Shrikant Vyas, Naveen Dumpala, Russell Tessier, Daniel Holcomb University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
Session S1b: Machine Learning Chair: Alireza Kaviani 10:30am–12:35pm Room 1ABC
10:30am	A High Performance FPGA-based Accelerator for Large-Scale Convolutional Neural Network Huimin Li, Xitian Fan, Li Jiao, Wei Cao, Xuegong Zhou, Lingli Wang Fudan University, CN
10:55am	DT-CGRA: Dual-Track Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture for Stream Applications Xitian Fan, Huimin Li, Wei Cao, Lingli Wang Fudan University, CN
11:20am	Hardware Acceleration of Feature Detection and Description Algorithms on Low-Power Embedded Platforms Onur Ulusel, Christopher Picardo, Christopher Harris, Sherief Reda, Iris Bahar Brown University, US
11:45am	Optimizing Hardware Design for Human Action Recognition Xiaoyin Ma, Jose Rodriguez Borbon, Walid Najjar, Amit K. Roy Chowdhury University of California, Riverside, US
12:10pm	Bayesian Inference Implemented on FPGA with Stochastic Bitstreams for an Autonomous Robot Hugo F. C. Fernandes, M. Awais Aslam, Jorge Lobo, João Filipe Ferreira, Jorge Dias University of Coimbra, PT
12:20pm	Accelerating Recurrent Neural Networks in Analytics Servers: Comparison of FPGA, CPU, GPU, and ASIC Eriko Nurvitadhi, Jaewoong Sim, David Sheffield, Asit Mishra, Srivatsan Krishnan, Debbie Marr Intel, US
12:25pm	Overcoming Resource Underutilization in Spatial CNN Accelerators Yongming Shen, Michael Ferdman, Peter Milder Stony Brook University, US
12:30pm	Configurable and Scalable Belief Propagation Accelerator for Computer Vision Jungwook Choi¹, Rob Rutenbar² ¹IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US ²University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Lunch 12:35pm–2:15pm Le Parmentier
Session S2a: Networks-on-Chip (1) Chair: Dirk Stroobandt 2:15pm–3:15pm Auditorium B
2:15pm	Hoplite-DSP: Harnessing the Xilinx DSP48 Multiplexers to Efficiently Support NoCs on FPGAs Chethan Kumar H. B., Nachiket Kapre Nanyang Technological University, SG
2:40pm	LYNX: CAD for FPGA-Based Networks-on-Chip Mohamed Abdelfattah, Vaughn Betz University of Toronto, CA
3:05pm	Low-Latency TCP/IP Stack for Data Center Applications David Sidler, Zsolt Istvan, Gustavo Alonso ETHZ, CH
3:10pm	Harnessing Programmable SoCs to Develop Cost-effective Network Quality Monitoring Devices Mario Ruiz¹, Javier Ramos¹, Gustavo Sutter¹, Sergio Lopez-Buedo¹, Jorge Lopez de Vergara¹, Cristian Sisterna² ¹Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ES ²Universidad Nacional de San Juan, AR
Session S2b: Signal Processing and Networks Chair: Francesco Regazzoni 2:15pm–3:15pm Room 1ABC
2:15pm	Hardware Acceleration of a Software-Based VPN Furkan Turan, Ruan de Clercq, Oscar Reparaz, Pieter Maene, Ingrid Verbauwhede Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE
2:40pm	Efficient Processing of Phased Array Radar in Sense and Avoid Application Using Heterogeneous Computing Luke Newmeyer, Doran Wilde, Michael Wirthlin Brigham Young University, US
3:05pm	Modeling Considerations for the Hardware-Software Co-design of Flexible Modern Wireless Transceivers Benjamin Drozdenko, Matthew Zimmermann, Tuan Dao, Miriam Leeser, Kaushik Chowdhury Northeastern University, US
3:10pm	Chaotic Architectures for Secure Free-Space Optical Communication Esam El-Araby¹, Nader Namazi² ¹University of Kansas, US ²Catholic University of America, US
Coffee Break and Poster Session (from Sessions S1a, S1b, S2a, and S2b) 3:15pm–4:00pm Foyer Grätzel
Session S3a: Low Level Architecture (1) Chair: Qiang Wang 4:00pm–5:00pm Auditorium B
4:00pm	An Evaluation on the Accuracy of the Minimum Width Transistor Area Models in Ranking the Actual Layout Area of FPGA Architectures Farheen Khan, Andy Ye Ryerson University, CA
4:25pm	The Speed of Diversity: Exploring Complex FPGA Routing Topologies for the Global Metal Layer Oleg Petelin, Vaughn Betz University of Toronto, US
4:50pm	Reconfigurable Circuit for Implementation of Family of 4-phase Latch Protocols Jotham Vaddaboina Manoranjan, Kenneth S. Stevens University of Utah, US
4:55pm	Modelling delay degradation due to NBTI in FPGA Look-Up Tables Mohammad Naouss, François Marc Université de Bordeaux, FR
Session S3b: Data Classification Chair: Peter Cheung 4:00pm–4:55pm Room 1ABC
4:00pm	Relational Query Processing on OpenCL-based FPGAs Zeke Wang¹, Johns Paul¹, Hui Yan Cheah¹, Bingsheng He¹, Wei Zhang² ¹Nanyang Technological University, SG ²Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
4:25pm	Annotation-Based Finite-State Transducers on Reconfigurable Devices Raphael Polig¹, Kubilay Atasu¹, Christoph Hagleitner¹, Theresa Xu², Akihiro Nakayama³ ¹IBM Research, Zurich, CH ²IBM Power Systems Performance Group, CA ³IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US
4:50pm	Approximate Frequent Itemset Mining for Streaming Data on FPGA Yubin Li¹, Yuliang Sun¹, Guohao Dai¹, Qiang Xu, Yu Wang², Huazhong Yang¹ ¹Tsinghua University, CN ²City University of Hong Kong, HK
Cruise and Buffet Dinner 6:15pm–10:30pm Ouchy
Wednesday 31st August
Keynote K2: Data Processing on the Fast Lane Gustavo Alonso (ETHZ, CH) Chair: Walid Najjar 9:00am–10:00am Auditorium B
Coffee Break 10:00am–10:30am Foyer Grätzel
Session S4a: Connectivity, Communication, and Supply Chains Chair: Miriam Leeser 10:30am–12:35pm Auditorium B
10:30am	Connect On the Fly: Enhancing and Prototyping of Cycle-Reconfigurable Modules Hao Zhou¹, Xinyu Niu¹, Junqi Yuan¹, Lingli Wang¹, Wayne Luk² ¹Fudan University, CN ²Imperial College London, UK
10:55am	Optimizing Interconnection Complexity for Realizing Fixed Permutation in Data and Signal Processing Algorithms Ren Chen, Viktor Prasanna University of Southern California, US
11:20am	JetStream: An Open-Source high-performance PCI Express 3 streaming library for FPGA-to-Host and FPGA-to-FPGA communication Malte Vesper¹, Dirk Koch¹, Kizheppatt Vipin², Suhaib A. Fahmy³ ¹University of Manchester, UK ²Mahindra École Centrale, IN ³University of Warwick, UK
11:45am	An Investigation into a Circuit Based Supply Chain Analyzer for FPGAs Jacob Couch, John Arkoian Johns Hopkins University, US
12:10pm	High-Speed Programmable FPGA Configuration through JTAG Ammon Gruwell, Peter Zabriskie, Michael Wirthlin Brigham Young University, US
12:15pm	A Highly-dense Mixed Grained Reconfigurable Architecture with Overlay Crossbar Interconnect Using Via-Switch Junshi Hotate¹, Takashi Kishimoto¹, Toshiki Higashi¹, Hiroyuki Ochi¹, Ryutaro Doi², Munehiro Tada³, Tadahiko Sugibayashi³, Kazutoshi Wakabayashi³, Hidetoshi Onodera⁴, Yukio Mitsuyama⁵, Masanori Hashimoto² ¹Ritsumeikan University, JP ²Osaka University, JP ³NEC Corporation, JP ⁴Kyoto University, JP ⁵Kochi University, JP
12:20pm	Controller Architecture for Low-latency Access to Phase-Change Memory in OpenPower Systems Antonios Prodromakis¹, Nikolaos Papandreou², Eleni Bougioukou¹, Urs Egger², Nikos Toulgaridis¹, Theodore Antonakopoulos¹, Haralampos Pozidis², Evangelos Eleftheriou² ¹University of Patras, GR ²IBM Research, Zurich, CH
12:25pm	FMER: A Hybrid Configuration Memory Error Recovery Scheme for Highly Reliable FPGA SoCs Dimitris Agiakatsikas, Ediz Cetin, Oliver Diessel University of New South Wales, AU
12:30pm	Ouessant: Microcontroller approach for flexible accelerator integration and control in System-On-Chip Pierre-Henri Horrein, Benoît Porteboeuf, André Lalevée Télécom Bretagne, FR
Session S4b: Low Level Architecture (2), Pipelining, and Timing Chair: Akash Kumar 10:30am–12:35pm Room 1ABC
10:30am	Stress-Aware Routing to Mitigate Aging Effects in SRAM-based FPGAs Behnam Khaleghi¹, Behzad Omidi¹, Hussam Amrouch², Joerg Henkel², Hossein Asadi¹ ¹Sharif University of Technology, IR ²Karsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
10:55am	Measure Twice and Cut Once: Robust Dynamic Voltage Scaling for FPGAs Ibrahim Ahmed, Shuze Zhao, Olivier Trescases, Vaughn Betz University of Toronto, CA
11:20am	Time-borrowing platform in Xilinx UltraScale+ family of FPGAs and MPSoCs Ilya Ganusov, Benjamin Devlin Xilinx Corporation, US
11:45am	Automated Extra Pipeline Analysis of Applications Mapped to Xilinx UltraScale+ FPGAs Ilya Ganusov¹, Henri Fraisse¹, Aaron Ng¹, Rafael Trapani Possignolo², Sabya Das¹ ¹Xilinx Corporation, US ²University of California, Santa Cruz, US
12:10pm	A Low-Power MTJ-Based Nonvolatile FPGA Using Self-Terminated Logic-In-Memory Structure Daisuke Suzuki, Takahiro Hanyu Tohoku University, JP
12:15pm	Body Bias Grain Size Exploration for a Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Accelerator Matsushita Yusuke, Hayate Okuhara, Ryuta Kawano, Masuyama Koichiro, Yu Fujita, Hideharu Amano Keio University, JP
12:20pm	Trojans Modifying Soft-Processor Instruction Sequences Embedded in FPGA Bitstreams Ismail San¹, Nicole Fern², Cetin Kaya Koc², Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng² ¹Anadolu University, TR ²University of California, Santa Barbara, US
12:25pm	Fast and Area Efficient Adder for Wide Data in Recent Xilinx FPGAs Petter Källström, Oscar Gustafsson Linköping University, SE
12:30pm	A Partial Reconfiguration Controller for Altera Stratix V FPGAs Zhenzhong Xiao, Dirk Koch, Mikel Lujan University of Manchester, UK
Lunch 12:35pm–2:15pm Le Parmentier
Keynote K3: Heterogeneous Computing Systems in Cloud Datacenters Christoph Hagleitner (IBM, CH) Chair: Philip Brisk 2:15pm–3:15pm Auditorium B
Coffee Break and Poster Session (from Sessions S3a, S3b, S4a, and S4b) 3:15pm–4:00pm Foyer Grätzel
Session S5a: Data Analysis and Databases Chair: Sameh Assad 4:00pm–5:30pm Auditorium B
4:00pm	Energy-Efficient Stochastic Matrix Function Estimator for Graph Analytics on FPGA Heiner Giefers, Peter Staar, Raphael Polig IBM Research, Zurich, CH
4:25pm	Accelerating Particle Identification for High-speed Data-filtering Using OpenCL on FPGAs and Other Architectures Srikanth Sridharan, Paolo Durante, Christian Faerber, Niko Neufeld CERN, CH
4:50pm	Optimising Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication for Large Scale High Order FEM problems on FPGAs Paul Grigoras, Pavel Burovskiy, Wayne Luk, Spencer Sherwin Imperial College London, UK
5:15pm	Fast and Robust Hashing for Database Operators Kaan Kara, Gustavo Alonso ETHZ, CH
5:20pm	An FPGA-based High-Throughput Stream Join Architecture Charalabos Kritikakis, Grigorios Chrysos, Apostolos Dollas, Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos Technical University of Crete, GR
5:25pm	Memory Efficient and High Performance Key-Value Store on FPGA Using Cuckoo Hashing Wei Liang, Wenbo Yin, Ping Kang, Lingli Wang Fudan University, CN
Session S5b: Compilation Chair: Andreas Koch 4:00pm–5:30pm Room 1ABC
4:00pm	Scalable and Modularized RTL Compilation of Convolutional Neural Networks onto FPGA Yufei Ma, Naveen Suda, Jae-sun Seo, Yu Cao, Sarma Vrudhula Arizona State University, US
4:25pm	FPGA-based Accelerator Design from a Domain-Specific Language Oliver Reiche, Frank Hannig, Akif Oezkan, Jürgen Teich Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE
4:50pm	Model-Based Optimization of High Level Synthesis Directives Charles Lo, Paul Chow University of Toronto, CA
5:15pm	EURECA Compiler: Automatic Optimisation of Cycle-reconfigurable Circuits Xinyu Niu¹, Nicholas Ng¹, Tomofumi Yuki², Shaojun Wang³, Nobuko Yoshida¹, Wayne Luk¹ ¹Imperial College London, UK ²INRIA, FR ³Harbin Institute of Technology, CN
5:20pm	GraVF: A Vertex-Centric Distributed Graph Processing Framework on FPGAs Nina Engelhardt, Hayden So University of Hong Kong, HK
5:25pm	Vector FPGA Acceleration of 1-D Computations Using Sparse Matrix Skeletons Sidharth Maheshwari, Gourav Modi, Siddhartha, Nachiket Kapre Nanyang Technological University, SG
PhD Forum Elevator Pitch Session Chairs: Mirjana Stojilović and Yann Thoma 5:30pm–6:00pm Auditorium B
5:30pm	Designing a Virtual Runtime for FPGA Accelerators in the Cloud Mikhail Asiatici¹, Nithin George¹, Kizheppatt Vipin², Suhaib A. Fahmy³, Paolo Ienne¹ ¹EPFL, CH ²Mahindra École Centrale, IN ³University of Warwick, UK
5:33pm	High-Level Synthesis for Medical Image Processing on Systems on Chip: A Case Study Fraser Robinson¹, Louise Crockett¹, William Nailon², Robert Stewart¹ ¹University of Strathclyde, UK ²Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, UK
5:36pm	Single-FPGA, Scalable, Low-power, and High-Quality 3D Ultrasound Beamformer William Simon, Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler, Aya Ibrahim, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli EPFL, CH
5:39pm	Optimal Random Sampling Based Path Planning on FPGAs Size Xiao, Adam Postula, Neil Bergmann University of Queensland, AU
5:42pm	A Hardware/Software Codesign Framework for Vision-based ADAS Leandro Martinez and Eduardo Marques University of Sao Paulo, BR
5:45pm	Dimensionality Reduction of Hyperspectral Images Using Reconfigurable Hardware Daniel Fernández, Carlos Gonzalez, Daniel Mozos Complutense University of Madrid, ES
5:48pm	Packet Processing on FPGA SoC with DPDK Jan Viktorin and Jan Korenek Brno University of Technology, CZ
5:51pm	Towards a Hardware-assisted Information Flow Tracking Ecosystem for ARM Processors Muhammad Abdul Wahab¹, Pascal Cotret², Mounir Nasr Allah¹, Guillaume Hiet¹, Vianney Lapotre³, Guy Gogniat³ ¹Supélec, FR ²IETR, FR ³Université Bretagne Sud, FR
5:54pm	All-Digital Antenna Array Transmitter Daniel Dinis, Rui Cordeiro, Arnaldo Oliveira, Jose Vieira Universidade de Aveiro, PT
Demo Night and Cocktail Dinner (Awards Ceremony) 7:00pm–10:00pm SV Hall
Transparent FPGA Flow Baptiste Delporte, Anthony Convers, Roberto Rigamonti, Alberto Dassatti HEIG‐VD, CH
A Runtime Reconfigurable FPGA-Based Microphone Array for Sound Source Localization Bruno da Silva, Laurent Segers, An Braeken, Abdellah Touhafi Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE
Demonstration of a Context-Switch Method for Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Systems Arief Wicaksana, Alban Bourge, Olivier Muller, Frédéric Rousseau Laboratoire TIMA, FR
XDL Alternative for Interfacing RapidSmith and Vivado Thomas Townsend, Brent Nelson, Michael Wirthlin Brigham Young University, US
HeteroSim: A Heterogeneous CPU-FPGA Simulator Liang Feng, Hao Liang, Sharad Sinha, Wei Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
Single-FPGA 3D Ultrasound Beamformer Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler, William Simon, Aya Ibrahim, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli EPFL, CH
Architectural Exploration and Implementation of an Image Processing Chain with SpaceStudio Guy Bois¹, Fellipe Monteiro¹, Eric Jenn², Kevin Duplantier² ¹Space Codesign Systems Inc., CA ²IRT Saint-Exupéry, FR
Designing a Virtual Runtime for FPGA Accelerators in the Cloud Mikhail Asiatici¹, Nithin George¹, Kizheppatt Vipin², Suhaib A. Fahmy³, Paolo Ienne¹ ¹EPFL, CH ²Mahindra École Centrale, IN ³University of Warwick, UK
Thursday 1st September
Keynote K4: Accelerating Datacenter Workloads P. K. Gupta (Intel, US) Chair: Patrick Lysaght 9:00am–10:00am Auditorium B
Coffee Break and PhD Forum 10:00am–11:00am Foyer Grätzel
Session S6a: Image Processing and Applications Chair: Nachiket Kapre 11:00am–12:35pm Auditorium B
11:00am	Resource Efficient Real-Time Processing of Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization Burak Unal, Ali Akoglu University of Arizona, US
11:25am	SRI-SURF: A Better SURF Powered by Scaled-RAM Interpolator on FPGA Xijie Jia¹, Kaiyuan Guo¹, Wenqiang Wang², Yu Wang¹, Huazhong Yang¹ ¹Tsinghua University, CN ²Microsoft Research, Asia, CN
11:50am	An Implementation method of the Box Filter on FPGA Sichao Wang, Tsutomu Maruyama University of Tsukuba, JP
12:15pm	Semi-dense SLAM on an FPGA SoC Konstantinos Boikos, Christos Bouganis Imperial College London, UK
12:20pm	SoC and FPGA Oriented High-quality Stereo Vision System Yanzhe Li¹, Kai Huang¹, Luc Claesen² ¹Zhejiang University, CN ²Hasselt University, BE
12:25pm	Exploring the Use of Shift Register Lookup Tables for Keccak Implementations on Xilinx FPGAs Jori Winderickx¹, Joan Daemen², Nele Mentens¹ ¹Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE ²STMicroelectronics, BE
12:30pm	Hardware-Software Codesign of RSA for Optimal Performance vs. Flexibility Trade-off Malik Sharif¹, Rabia Shahid¹, Marcin Rogawski², Kris Gaj¹ ¹George Mason University, US ²Cadence Design Systems, US
Session S6b: High-level Synthesis Chair: Mike Wirthlin 11:00am–12:35pm Room 1ABC
11:00am	Automated Bug Detection for Pointers and Memory Accesses in High-Level Synthesis Compilers Pietro Fezzardi, Fabrizio Ferrandi Politecnico di Milano, IT
11:25am	Efficient and Reliable High-Level Synthesis Design Space Explorer for FPGAs Dong Liu, Benjamin Carrion Schafer Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
11:50am	Quantifying Observability for In-System Debug of High-Level Synthesis Circuits Jeffrey Goeders, Steve Wilton University of British Columbia, CA
12:15pm	SoCLog: A Real-Time, Automatically Generated Logging and Profiling Mechanism for FPGA-based Systems On Chip Ioannis Parnassos, Panagiotis Skrimponis, Georgios Zindros, Nikolaos Bellas Center for Research and Development, Hellas (CERTH), GR
12:20pm	Improved Resource Sharing for FPGA DSP Blocks Ronak Bajaj¹, Suhaib A. Fahmy² ¹Nanyang Technological University, SG ²University of Warwick, UK
12:25pm	Efficient Sum of Absolute Difference Computation on FPGAs Martin Kumm, Marco Kleinlein, Peter Zipf University of Kassel, DE
12:30pm	Runtime Reconfigurable Beamforming Architecture for Real-Time Sound-Source Localization Bruno da Silva, Laurent Segers, An Braeken, Abdellah Touhafi Vrije Universiteit Brussels, BE
Lunch 12:35pm–2:15pm Le Parmentier
Keynote K5: A Software Developer's Journey into a Deeply Heterogeneous World Tomas Evensen (Xilinx, US) Chair: Jason Anderson 2:15pm–3:15pm Auditorium B
Presentation FPL'17 3:15pm–3:30pm Auditorium B
Coffee Break and Poster Session (from Sessions S5a, S5b, S6a, and S6b) 3:30pm–4:15pm Foyer Grätzel
Session S7a: Networks-on-Chip (2) Chair: Dionisis Pnevmatikatos 4:15pm–5:30pm Auditorium B
4:15pm	Effect of I/O routing through NoC interfaces in embedded FPGA fabrics Christophe Huriaux¹, Olivier Sentieys¹, Russ Tessier² ¹INRIA, FR ²University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
4:40pm	AdapNoC: A Fast and Flexible FPGA-based NoC Simulator Hadi Mardani Kamali, Shaahin Hessabi Sharif University of Technology, Iran
5:05pm	XNoC: A Non-intrusive TDM Circuit-Switched Network-on-Chip Tuan D. A. Nguyen¹, Akash Kumar² ¹National University of Singapore, SG ²Technische Universität Dresden, DE
Session S7b: Surveys, Trends, and Education Chair: Kubilay Atasu 4:15pm–5:30pm Room 1ABC
4:15pm	A Survey of AIS-20/31 Compliant TRNG Cores Suitable for FPGA Devices Oto Petura, Ugo Mureddu, Nathalie Bochard, Viktor Fischer, Lilian Bossuet Hubert Curien Laboratory, Jean Monnet University, FR
4:40pm	Survey of Domain-Specific Languages for FPGA Computing Nachiket Kapre¹, Samuel Bayliss² ¹Nanyang Technological University, SG ²Imperial College London, UK
5:05pm	A Survey on Reconfigurable Accelerators for Cloud Computing Christoforos Kachris, Dimitrios Soudris National Technical University of Athens, GR
Closing Remarks 5:30pm–5:45pm Auditorium B

Keynote Talks

Doug Burger
Microsoft, US

Configurable Clouds (slides)
Hyperscale clouds are already disrupting the industry in significant ways and are on their way to being a trillion-dollar market. Reconfigurable computing holds the promise of a transformation—not an augmentation—of cloud architecture. In this talk, I will describe the evolution of the Catapult cloud FPGA architecture developed at Microsoft, through its early prototypes, through previously published designs, to the current v2 architecture that is successfully transforming our cloud architecture at large scale. I will show why we believe this particular design is disruptive, and will describe a few case studies about how Microsoft is using it to accelerate our both our services and our Azure cloud platform. I will conclude with some thoughts about how these Configurable Clouds may evolve and some of the future opportunities for large-scale reconfigurable computing in general.
Doug Burger is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, where he leads several research projects aimed at transforming the computing architecture of Microsoft's systems and devices. With Derek Chiou, he co-leads the Catapult project, which is incorporating FPGA technology at large scale into Microsoft's cloud architecture. Before joining Microsoft in 2008, he served on the Computer Science faculty at the University of Texas at Austin for ten years, where he co-led the TRIPS project. He is the recipient of the 2006 Maurice Wilkes Award, an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an ex-athlete, and an avid father.

Gustavo Alonso
ETHZ, CH

Data Processing on the Fast Lane (slides)
Data processing is changing in radical ways. On the one hand, data science and big data have brought an unprecedented growth and variety in data sizes, demanding workloads, data types, and applications. On the other hand, hardware is no longer a source of performance as it has been in the last decades. Instead, it has become a complex, fast evolving, highly specialized, and heterogeneous platform that requires considerable tuning and effort to use optimally. In this talk I will discuss the problem, arguing that there is an opportunity for specialized designs based on FPGAs and showing the challenges to data processing resulting from modern hardware. I will illustrate the points with examples from research and recent developments from industry to argue there is a significant opportunity for FPGAs in data centers if one focuses on the correct problems and finds the proper architecture for the complete system.
Gustavo Alonso is a professor at the Department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich (ETHZ) in Switzerland, where he is a member of the Systems Group. Gustavo has a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara. Before joining ETHZ, he was at the IBM Almaden Research Center. His research interests encompass almost all aspects of systems, from design to run time of distributed systems and databases, with an emphasis on system architecture. Current research is related to multi-core architectures, large clusters, FPGAs, and big data, mainly working on adapting traditional system software (OS, database, middleware) to modern hardware platforms. Gustavo is a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE.

Christoph Hagleitner
IBM, CH

Heterogeneous Computing Systems in Cloud Datacenters (slides)
Cloud computing is at the core of the ongoing revolution inside the IT industry and the cloud platform is a central strategic element in IBMs current transformation. Heterogeneous computing systems employing GPUs, FPGAs, and custom ASICs promise to address the performance and energy-efficiency bottlenecks of homogeneous, CPU-based datacenter (DC) infrastructures. FPGAs offer reconfigurability and superior energy-efficiency, but have only established themselves in niche markets like networking and storage appliances in current DCs. There are two complementary approaches to establish heterogeneous computing systems in cloud datacenters: The first is based on heterogeneous Supernodes that tightly couple compute resources to multi-core CPUs and their coherent memory system via high-bandwidth, low latency interconnects like CAPI or NVlink. The second approach is based on the disaggregation of DC resources, where the individual compute, memory, and storage resources are connected only via the network fabric and can be individually optimized and scaled in line with the cloud paradigm. This talk will map the DC workloads in the areas of cognitive computing, HPC, and IoT to the proposed system architectures and explore where FPGAs can provide differentiation.
Christoph Hagleitner leads the accelerator technologies group at the IBM Research Zurich Lab (ZRL) in Ruschlikon, Switzerland. The group focuses on (hardware-accelerated) heterogeneous computing systems for cloud and HPC. Applications include big-data analytics and cognitive computing. He obtained a diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from ETHZ, Switzerland in 1997 and and a Ph.D. degree for a thesis on CMOS-integrated Microsensors from ETHZ, Switzerland in 2002. In 2003 he joined IBM Research to work on the system architecture of a novel probe-storage device (millipede-project). In 2008, he started to build up a new research group in the area of accelerator technologies. The team initially focused on on-chip accelerator cores and gradually expanded its research to heterogeneous systems and their applications.

P. K. Gupta
Intel, US

Accelerating Datacenter Workloads (slides)
Developers are continually challenged with solving workloads that are increasing in diversity and complexity. Modern workloads include use cases for cloud, networking, HPC and storage which have different attributes. We will discuss strategies and tools to accelerate these workloads using FPGAs, including development environments that make it easier to deploy and manage FPGAs in the datacenter.
P. K. Gupta (PK) is the General Manager of the Xeon+FPGA Products in the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for developing the Xeon+FPGA product for accelerating cloud workloads. PK has been working on accelerator technologies for servers for 10 years. Prior to that, he was the CTO of Intel's Modular Communications Platform Division and the Director of Engineering of Network Building Block Division in Intel's Communications Infrastructure Group. PK has been with Intel since the acquisition of Dialogic in 1999. He joined Dialogic in 1996 and held various engineering positions, including the VP of Engineering. Prior to Dialogic, PK was at Hughes where he led the development of satellite and cellular communication products. PK holds 15 patents and is the author of numerous papers for journals and conference proceedings. PK holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Rhode Island and a MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tomas Evensen
Xilinx, US

A Software Developer's Journey into a Deeply Heterogeneous World (slides)
Embedded software developers have always had to deal with more than just the code running on a processor. To be effective you had to understand the underlying hardware, including caches and interrupts. But with today's deeply heterogeneous architectures, including multiple types of microprocessors, FPGAs, DSPs, and GPUs, the software developer is being asked to partition the application to run efficiently across hardware that sometimes does not even remotely resemble the CPU you are used to. Using the Xilinx MPSoC as an example, this talk will cover what it takes to create an effective software environment that can handle the heterogeneous nature of modern embedded SoCs, including using multiple operating systems and putting some of your C code in the FPGA.
Tomas Evensen is Chief Technology Officer, Embedded Software at Xilinx. In this role he is responsible for the embedded software strategy for Xilinx All Programmable SoCs. Prior to joining Xilinx, Evensen was Chief Technology Officer at Wind River for seven years, as well as GM for the Wind River Tools Division. Before that he was the creator of the Diab Data C/C++ compilers. Evensen received his MSEE at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Tutorials & Workshops

The following tutorials and workshops took place before and after the main conference.

Monday 29th Aug		Friday 2nd Sep
morning	afternoon	morning	afternoon

Tutorial TM1 Embedded Design Using LabVIEW Real-Time and FPGA		Tutorial TF1 Embedded Systems and OpenCL on the Cyclone V SoC

Tutorial TM2 Hyperscale FPGA Research on Catapult		Tutorial TF2 Pynq for Zynq Devices

Tutorial TM3 Energy-efficient Acceleration for Neuro-inspired Computing On-a-Chip	Tutorial TM4 Practical on Benchmarking Real-Time and Energy Constrained 3D Robot Vision Applications with SLAMBench	Tutorial TF3 Accelerating Big Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark, and Memcached on Datacenters on Modern Clusters

Workshop WM1 FPGAs for Software Programmers (FSP 2016)		Workshop WF1 Soft Errors and Programmable Logic (SEPL 2016)

		Workshop WF2 Security in Reconfigurable Devices: Challenges and Solutions (SecRec 2016)	Workshop WF3 Reconfigurable Computing — From Embedded Systems to Reconfigurable Hyperscale Servers

morning	afternoon	morning	afternoon
Monday 29th Aug		Friday 2nd Sep

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Tutorial TM1
Embedded Design Using LabVIEW Real-Time and FPGA

Organizers: Jose Albuquerque Silva, Maha Moatemri, and Joseph Tagg (National Instruments, US)
Monday, 9:00am–5:30pm
Room: 2A

Using high level synthesis (HLS) and an inherently parallel programming language, National Instruments (NI) provides software developers a powerful and efficient way to capture complex designs. This seminar explores the LabVIEW graphical embedded development tools and National Instruments off-the-shelf prototyping and deployment-ready systems. Discover first-hand how to design, prototype, and deploy real-time applications using NI LabVIEW Real-Time and FPGA programming tools and NI RIO hardware. Explore leading-edge control design tools and techniques to improve your design efficiency for custom systems and machines. Learn about closed loop control design, simulation, implementation, and monitoring including PID control and FPGA based machine analysis. During the workshop attendees will have also the opportunity to learn how to design real systems with NI myRIO and thus connecting the acquired knowledge with the teaching experience. NI myRIO is an embedded hardware device developed for teaching applications and designed for developing real, complex engineering systems using a dual-core ARM® CortexTM-A9 real-time processor and customized I/O with a Xilinx FPGA.

For more details, please visit this website.

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Tutorial TM2
Hyperscale FPGA Research on Catapult

Organizers: Andrew Putnam (Microsoft, US) and Derek Chiou (Microsoft and University of Texas Austin, US)
Monday, 9:00am–5:30pm
Room: INF3 (EPFL)

The Microsoft Catapult system is a multi-FPGA reconfigurable fabric designed for integration with modern hyperscale datacenters. Microsoft has donated two large systems for use by both academic and commercial researchers—one at EPFL, and one at TACC at the University of Texas (Austin). Similar hardware is available in very limited supply for individual systems. The goal of this donation is to facilitate large-scale, multi-FPGA research. This tutorial will introduce students to the Catapult hardware, software, and systems. Basic compilation of simple roles will be covered, as well as writing software to interact with those roles. We will also briefly cover the use of the EPFL and TACC systems, as well as any questions about promising research directions using the Catapult hardware.

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Tutorial TM3
Energy-efficient Acceleration for Neuro-inspired Computing On-a-Chip

Organizers: Yu Cao, Jae-sun Seo, and Yu Wang (Arizona State University, US)
Monday, 9:00am–12:30pm
Room: 3A

Neuro-inspired computing, has made enormous progress in recent years. Yet their performance on hardware is still limited by the scale of computation and the architecture of existing CPUs/GPUs. While special purpose hardware solutions help bring expensive algorithms to a low-power processor, limitations still exist in homogeneous architecture, memory footprint, communication, and online learning capability, especially for mobile/wearable systems with extreme power constraints. This tutorial will present our latest knowledge of hardware acceleration from multiple aspects. Examples include model/memory compression, data precision, architectural optimization, circuit operation, emerging devices, and neuromorphic motifs. These techniques will effectively reduce the computation complexity and improve the mapping of the algorithms to various hardware platforms.

For more details, please visit this website.

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Tutorial TM4
Practical on Benchmarking Real-Time and Energy Constrained 3D Robot Vision Applications with SLAMBench

Organizers: Bruno Bodin, Luigi Nardi, and Harry Wagstaff (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Monday, 2:15pm–5:30pm
Room: 3A

During this tutorial we propose a practical on the robotics vision SLAMBench benchmarking framework. Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping (SLAM) systems aim to perform real-time localisation of the camera and 3D mapping “simultaneously” for a camera moving through an unknown environment. The SLAMBench benchmarking framework is a publicly-available software framework which represents a starting point for quantitative, comparable and validatable experimental research to investigate trade-offs in performance, accuracy and energy consumption of SLAM algorithms. Our goal is to ensure that attendees can install andrun the framework on their machine during the tutorial. No previous knowledge of computer vision is required. Invited speakers will talk about their experience with SLAMBench.

For more details, please visit this website.

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Tutorial TF1
Embedded Systems and OpenCL on the Cyclone V SoC

Organizer: Kevin Nam (Altera, US)
Friday, 9:00am–5:30pm
Room: 2BC

The integration of a CPU and FPGA into an SoC allows the development of exciting applications that benefit from the strengths of each half. In this tutorial we will look at designing such applications using the Cyclone V SoC device. We will begin by examining the Cyclone V SoC device architecture, and writing baremetal code. We will then learn how to use a Linux environment to develop and run software programs that communicate with circuits placed inside the FPGA. Starting from the basics of running Linux on the Cyclone V SoC board, we will work our way up to designing a hardware-accelerated Linux application that offloads computation to a custom circuit placed in the FPGA. The tutorial will conclude with an introduction to the Altera OpenCL SDK, which provides a high-level design methodology for creating hardware-accelerated applications that use Altera FPGAs.

For more details, please visit this website.

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Tutorial TF2
Pynq for Zynq Devices

Organizers: Patrick Lysaght and Cathal McCabe (Xilinx, US)
Friday, 9:00am–5:30pm
Room: 3A

Pynq is a new open-source framework for designing with Xilinx Zynq devices. Pynq enables programmers who design embedded systems to exploit the capabilities of Zynq APSoCs without having to use ASIC-style, CAD tools to design programmable logic circuits. Instead the APSoC is programmed in Python and the code is developed and tested directly on the embedded system. The programmable logic circuits are imported as hardware libraries and programmed through their APIs, in essentially the same way that software libraries are imported and programmed. The framework combines four main elements: (1) the use of a high-level productivity language, Python in this case; (2) Python-callable hardware libraries based on FPGA overlays; (3) a web-based architecture incorporating the open-source Jupyter Notebook infrastructure served from Zynq's embedded processors; and (4) Jupyter Notebook's client-side, web apps. The result is a web-centric programming environment that enables software programmers to work at higher levels of design abstraction and to re-use both software and hardware libraries. This tutorial will give a hands-on introduction to Pynq.

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Tutorial TF3
Accelerating Big Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark, and Memcached on Datacenters on Modern Clusters

Organizers: DK Panda and Xioyi Lu (The Ohio State University, US)
Friday, 9:00am–12:30pm
Room: 2A

Apache Hadoop and Spark are gaining prominence in handling Big Data and analytics. Similarly, Memcached in Web 2.0 environment is becoming important for large-scale query processing. These middleware are traditionally written with sockets and do not deliver best performance on datacenters with modern high performance networks. In this tutorial, we will provide an in-depth overview of the architecture of Hadoop components (HDFS, MapReduce, RPC, HBase, etc.), Spark and Memcached. We will examine the challenges in re-designing the networking and I/O components of these middleware with modern interconnects, protocols (such as InfiniBand, iWARP, RoCE, and RSocket) with RDMA and storage architecture. Using the publicly available software packages in the High-Performance Big Data (HiBD, http://hibd.cse.ohio-state.edu) project, we will provide case studies of the new designs for several Hadoop/Spark/Memcached components and their associated benefits. Through these case studies, we will also examine the interplay between high performance interconnects, storage systems (HDD and SSD), and multi-core platforms to achieve the best solutions for these components.

For more details, please visit this website.

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Workshop WM1
FPGAs for Software Programmers (FSP 2016)

Organizers: Andreas Koch (Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE) and Markus Weinhardt (Hochschule Osnabrück, DE)
Proceedings Chair: Christian Hochberger (Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE)
Monday, 9:00am–5:30pm
Room: 2BC

The aim of this workshop is to make FPGA and reconfigurable technology accessible to software programmers. Despite their frequently proven power and performance benefits, designing for FPGAs is mostly an engineering discipline carried out by highly trained specialists. With recent progress in high-level synthesis, a first important step towards bringing FPGA technology to potentially millions of software developers was taken.

For more details, please visit this website.

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Workshop WF1
Soft Errors and Programmable Logic (SEPL 2016)

Organizers: Mike Wirthlin (Brigham Young University, US) and Mike Hutton (Altera, US)
Friday, 9:00am–5:30pm
Room: 3B

Programmable devices are very attractive for a variety of applications due to their high levels of logic integration, their flexibility during the project lifetime, and their reconfigurability. However, SRAM-based FPGAs are particularly susceptible to single-event upsets due to ionizing radiation found in the terrestrial environment, high-altitude applications, space, and unique radiation environments such as high-energy physics. The objective of this workshop is to share information and results related to the reliable use of SRAM-based FPGAs in the presence of single-event effects. This topic is of interest to users of FPGAs in a variety of unique environments such as space, avionics, high-reliability, FPGA-based data centers, and high-energy physics. This topic will be of increasing interest to a variety of users as the densities of FPGAs continue to increase and the effects of ionizing radiation play a more important part of large FPGA-based systems.

For more details, please visit this website.

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Workshop WF2
Security in Reconfigurable Devices: Challenges and Solutions (SecRec 2016)

Organizers: Lejla Batina (Radboud University, NL), Francesco Regazzoni (USI, CH), Ricardo Chaves (INESC-ID, PT), Nele Mentens (KU Leuven, BE), and Tim Güneysu (University of Bremen, DE)
Friday, 9:00am–12:30pm
Room: 3C

Reconfigurable systems are used to control critical application or to handle sensitive information. To safely and reliably implement such systems, it is of paramount importance that designers have a complete awareness of the risks to be avoided, the main security threats, and the most advanced protection available. Similar to other digital circuits, designs implemented using FPGAs are susceptible to physical attacks and to hardware Trojans. Nevertheless, FPGAs offer new and unique possibilities for implementing secure features, including quantum resistant algorithms, and for guaranteeing robustness against reverse engineering. The SecRec Workshop aims to bring researchers and experts together to discuss current and future research directions regarding threats, attacks, design methodologies, and basic blocks currently used to address security problems using reconfigurable hardware.

For more details, please visit this website.

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Workshop WF3
Reconfigurable Computing — From Embedded Systems to Reconfigurable Hyperscale Servers

Organizers: Mario Porrmann (Bielefeld University, DE), Zain Ul‐Abdin (Halmstad University, SE), and Madhura Purnaprajna (Amrita University, IN)
Friday, 2:15pm–5:30pm
Room: 3C

Reconfigurable computing platforms, which offer massive parallelism coupled with the capability of run‐time adaptation to changing application requirements are becoming core components of the information processing in embedded systems with high computational demand but limited energy budget. In parallel to their utilization for IoT devices and in cyber physical systems, reconfigurable systems are used together with GPGPUs in data centres for high performance and cloud computing. The synergistic use of multiprocessing techniques and reconfigurable parallelism has shown orders of magnitude improvements in performance, power efficiency, and cost for a wide range of applications. Partial reconfiguration—a research topic for two decades—is becoming mainstream for embedded systems and is seen as an important requirement for efficient utilization in HPC and cloud computing. However, developing systems and applications that employ such architectures still poses many challenges, which are currently tackled in several research projects. In this workshop, we want to bring together researchers from a wide variety of international projects to share their achievements and innovations in the area of reconfigurable computing, ranging from embedded systems to reconfigurable hyperscale servers. The workshop will provide a platform for open discussion of ongoing research with interested attendees from industry and academia.

For more details, please visit this website.

Awards

The Michal Servit Award, to the most outstanding paper in the area of design algorithms, methods, and CAD tools for FPGAs and self-aware systems, was awarded to An Evaluation on the Accuracy of the Minimum Width Transistor Area Models in Ranking the Actual Layout Area of FPGA Architectures by Farheen Khan and Andy Ye (Ryerson University, CA).

The Stamatis Vassiliadis Award, to the most outstanding paper in the area of architecture and applications, was awarded to An Investigation into a Circuit Based Supply Chain Analyzer for FPGAs by Jacob Couch and John Arkoian (Johns Hopkins University, US).

The FPL'16 Community Award, in appreciation of an outstanding research contribution to the FPL community through publicly accessible IP that can be used and extended by others in future research, was awarded to JetStream: An Open-Source High-performance PCI Express 3 Streaming Library for FPGA-to-Host and FPGA-to-FPGA Communication by Malte Vesper and Dirk Koch (University of Manchester, UK), Kizheppatt Vipin (Mahindra École Centrale, IN), and Suhaib A. Fahmy (University of Warwick, UK).

Registration

To register for the conference and for all tutorials workshops, please visit the registration site. After registration, you will receive by e-mail a personal link that can be used to update your registration at any time (e.g., to participate in tutorials or to add tickets for the social event). If you are unable to pay by credit card because of exceptional circumstances, please register as usual (but leaving the billing info blank) and contact the Registration Chairs. Please note that registrations are not refundable.

Early registration ends at midnight AoE on 15th July 2016. Online registration will remain open until the conference begins. On-site registration will be available at the Late Registration rates and only by credit card or PayPal.

	Early (before 15th July)	Late (from 16th July)
Main conference (full registration)	625 CHF	825 CHF
Main conference (students)	335 CHF	425 CHF
Any tutorials or workshops on Monday	60 CHF/day (if registered for the main conference) 125 CHF/day (otherwise)
Any tutorials or workshops on Friday	60 CHF/day (if registered for the main conference) 125 CHF/day (otherwise)
Additional tickets for the social event	120 CHF
Additional pages (max 2, full papers only)	150 CHF

Accommodation

A number of rooms have been reserved for the conference in various hotels. They will be kept available for the FPL'16 participants on a first-come first-served basis until a date specified by the hotel (usually between end of June and early August). Below is the offering by these hotels; to book a reserved room in any of these hotels, you should e-mail directly the hotel (envelope link in the table) and mention "FPL16" as a reference to the reservation. Note that at the time of this writing some of these hotels already look fully booked on common travel websites. Please also note that the reservation is only a courtesy by the hotels to our participants.

Hotel	Book by	Offer	Breakfast
Alpha-Palmiers ★★★★		5% discount if booked directly
Continental ★★★★	27th July	Single: 175 CHF Double (1 p.): 220 CHF Double (2 pp.): 280 CHF	incl.
Starling ★★★★	26th July	Double (1 p.): 160 CHF Double (2 pp.): 195 CHF	incl.
Victoria ★★★★	27th July	Single: 192 CHF Double (1 p.): 222 CHF	incl.
46a ★★★	28th June	Studio (1 p.): 145 CHF Studio (2 pp.): 160 CHF	incl.
Aulac ★★★	10th August	Single: 145 CHF Large single: 160 CHF Double: 190 CHF	incl.
Crystal ★★★	29th July	Single: 131 CHF Double (1 p.): 161 CHF Double (2 pp.): 181 CHF	incl.
Du Port ★★★	8th August	Single (town side): 145 CHF Double (2 pp., lake side): 195 CHF Double (2 pp., town side): 175 CHF	incl.
LHOTEL ★★★	25th July	Single: 102.50 CHF Double (2 pp.): 142.50 CHF	14 CHF
SwissTech ★★★	15th July	Single: 120 CHF	11 CHF
Ibis ★★	13th August	Double (1 p., 28/08): 126 CHF Double (1 p., 29/08 and 01/09): 155 CHF Double (1 p., 30/08 and 31/08): 161 CHF	no
Jeunotel (Youth Hostel)	30th June	Single: 87 CHF Double: 59 CHF/person Quadruple: 40 CHF/person	no

For your convenience, the map below indicates the location of all of the above hotels together with the main sites of the conference and some touristic landmarks. Note that the SwissTech Hotel is right on the side of the SwissTech Convention Centre and literally on the platform of the metro connecting EPFL with the city centre. Most of the rooms have been reserved there.

Local Transportation

The best means to reach Lausanne from all Swiss airports is train. You can find the most convenient connections from the CFF website or using Google Maps. Both Geneva and Zurich airports have a train station inside the building and direct trains to Lausanne. You should typically take one-way tickets (return tickets are valid only for the same day) and get regular tickets (most Swiss residents have a 1/2-price card). A second class regular ticket to/from Geneva Airport costs 27 CHF and one to/from Zurich Airport costs 77 CHF. Second class is quite comfortable; first class, depending on the route and times, may have the advantage of more free seats available (but not always!).

Public transportation in Lausanne is fairly well developed and efficient. You can find the most convenient connections and all timetables from the TL website or, again, using Google Maps. In particular, you can find on the TL website the network map in PDF. To reach EPFL and STCC, the most convenient line is m1, a metro line, and the stop you want is named, unimaginatively, EPFL. STCC is immediately recognizable from the m1 stop. Note that you could take m1 to EPFL both from the city centre (stop Lausanne-Flon) as well as from the Renens train station (on the Geneva – Lausanne line, but few trains from the airport stop there). Finally, everyone staying in a hotel in Lausanne will receive a free daily ticket, so you should not be concerned by how to obtain tickets.

The use of private cars to come to Lausanne is usually not a recommended option, unless the hotel offers parking spaces (free and unlimited street parking is almost inexistent in the city centre). Coming to EPFL by private car is also not very convenient: there is no public parking at STCC and parking at EPFL requires you to purchase daily parking passes at the central information desk. Please consider that public transportation is much more convenient.

Finally, if you need to find a place at EPFL, you may find useful the interactive map of EPFL

Tourism

Late summer is a great time to visit the region of Lake Geneva and Switzerland. There are many websites with abundant information on Lausanne and Switzerland.

The official Lausanne tourism website.

The official Lake Geneva Region tourism website.

The official Switzerland tourism website.

The official Gran Tour of Switzerland website.

And there is a City Guide Lausanne app available for both Android and iOS.

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: 20th March 2016

Paper submission deadline: 27th March 2016 AoE (please note: no extensions!)

Demo night, PhD forum, tutorials, and workshops submission deadline: 8th May 2016

Notifications: around 15th June 2016

Final manuscripts deadline: 3rd July 2016

Early registration deadline: 15th July 2016

Online registration deadline: 22nd August 2016

Calls for Contributions

Here is the final Call for Contributions in PDF.

Here is the final Call for PhD Forum and Demo Night Contributions in PDF.

The conference proceedings will me made available online at the FPL 2016 venue and will be published through IEEE Xplore after the conference.

Submissions

Authors are required to use the standard IEEE templates in format A4 and not to include page numbers, to ensure compatibility with IEEE Xplore. Templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word 2003 are available directly from IEEE.

FPL 2016 uses a double-blind reviewing system. Manuscripts must not identify authors or their affiliations; those that do will not be considered. Exceptions may be allowed with prior approval of the Programme Chairs, in cases where the authors’ identity is vital to evaluating the paper (e.g., papers presenting updates of infrastructure used by the FPGA community). References to the authors’ prior work should be made in the 3rd person, in the same way one would reference work by others. If necessary to maintain anonymity, citations may be shown as "Removed for blind review", but consider that this may impede a thorough review if the removed citation is crucial to understanding the submission.

Papers can be submitted for one of the following categories (please note the later deadline for the last two types of papers). All papers will be published in the proceedings and will appear in IEEE Xplore. Strict paper length limitations are as follows:

Full papers	8 pages + up to 2 additional pages which can be purchased at the time of registration for 150 CHF/page + references (i.e., references are not counted in the page budget)
Short papers	4 pages, including references
PhD Forum papers	2 pages, including references
Demo Night papers	1-page abstract, including references

Use this submission site to submit your paper. Please note that the submission of the full- and short-paper abstracts by the relevant deadline is mandatory and that deadlines are not going to be extended.

Organizing Committee

General Chairs

Paolo Ienne, EPFL, CH
Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, US

Programme Chairs

Jason Anderson, University of Toronto, CA
Philip Brisk, University of California Riverside, US

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs

Pierre‐Emmanuel Gaillardon, University of Utah, US
Michael Hübner, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE

PhD Forum, Demo Night, and Industrial Events Chairs

Mirjana Stojilović, HEIG‐VD, CH
Yann Thoma, HEIG‐VD, CH

Proceedings Chair

Walter Stechele, TU München, DE

Publicity Chair

Kubilay Atasu, IBM Research – Zurich, CH

Local Arrangements Chair

Chantal Schneeberger, EPFL, CH

Local Arrangements Team

Mikhail Asiatici, EPFL, CH
Andrew Becker, EPFL, CH
Lana Josipović, EPFL, CH
Ana Petkovska, EPFL, CH
Grace Zgheib, EPFL, CH

Registration Chairs

Andrew Becker, EPFL, CH
Grace Zgheib, EPFL, CH

Programme Committee

Michael Adler, Intel, US
Hideharu Amano, Keio University, JP
David Andrews, University of Arkansas, US
Sameh Asaad, IBM, US
Kubilay Atasu, IBM, CH
Peter Athanas, Virginia Tech, US
Trevor Bauer, Xilinx, US
Samuel Bayliss, Xilinx, US
Kia Bazargan, University of Minnesota, US
Jürgen Becker, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, DE
Tobias Becker, Maxeler Technologies, UK
Pascal Benoit, Université Montpellier 2, FR
Neil Bergmann, University of Queensland, AU
Koen Bertels, Technische Universiteit Delft, NL
Vaughn Betz, University of Toronto, CA
Dustyn Blasig, National Instruments, US
Michaela Blott, Xilinx, IE
Christophe Bobda, University of Arkansas, US
Cristiana Bolchini, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Christos Bouganis, Imperial College London, UK
Eli Bozorgzadeh, University of California Irvine, US
Gordon Brebner, Xilinx, US
Stephen Brown, Altera, CA
João M. P. Cardoso, Universidade do Porto, PT
Benjamin Carrion Schafer, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Luigi Carro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, BR
Deming Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Peter Cheung, Imperial College London, UK
Kiyoung Choi, Seoul National University, KR
Paul Chow, University of Toronto, CA
Jason Cong, University of California Los Angeles, US
Philippe Coussy, Université de Bretagne Sud, FR
Jose Gabriel Coutinho, Imperial College London, UK
Rene Cumplido, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, MX
Martin Danek, Daiteq, CZ
Anup Das, University of Southampton, UK
Sabya Das, Xilinx, US
Eduardo de la Torre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
André DeHon, University of Pennsylvania, US
Steven Derrien, Université de Rennes 1, FR
Oliver Diessel, University of New South Wales, AU
Pedro Diniz, University of Southern California, US
Apostolos Dollas, Technical University of Crete, GR
Carl Ebeling, Altera, US
Suhaib A. Fahmy, University of Warwick, UK
Fabrizio Ferrandi, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Elliott Fleming, Intel, US
Blair Fort, University of Toronto, CA
Roberto Giorgi, Università di Siena, IT
Diana Goehringer, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE
Guy Gogniat, Université de Bretagne Sud, FR
Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US
Kees Goossens, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, NL
Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, US
David Greaves, University of Cambridge, UK
Jonathan Greene, Microsemi, US
Yajun Ha, National University of Singapore, SG
Yuko Hara-Azumi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP
Reiner Hartenstein, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, DE
Martin Herbordt, Boston University, US
James C. Hoe, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Michael Hübner, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE
Miaoqing Huang, University of Arkansas, US
Eddie Hung, Imperial College London, UK
Paolo Ienne, EPFL, CH
Arpith Jacob, IBM, US
Nachiket Kapre, Nanyang Technological University, SG
Sinan Kaptanoglu, Microsemi, US
Wolfgang Karl, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, DE
Ryan Kastner, University of California San Diego, US
Alireza Kaviani, Xilinx, US
Tom Kean, Algotronix, UK
Udo Kebschull, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, DE
Andrew Kennings, University of Waterloo, CA
Kenneth Kent, University of New Brunswick, CA
Taemin Kim, Intel, US
Kenji Kise, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP
Vipin Kizheppatt, Mahindra École Centrale, IN
Andreas Koch, Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE
Dirk Koch, University of Manchester, UK
Jan Korenek, Brno University of Technology, CZ
Akash Kumar, Technische Universität Dresden, DE
Martin Langhammer, Altera, UK
Luciano Lavagno, Politecnico di Torino, IT
Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, US
Guy Lemieux, University of British Columbia, CA
Philip Leong, University of Sydney, AU
Wayne Luk, Imperial College London, UK
Patrick Lysaght, Xilinx, US
Wai-Kei Mak, National Tsing Hua University, TW
Tsutomu Maruyama, University of Tsukuba, JP
Cathal McCabe, Xilinx, IE
Nele Mentens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE
Antonio Miele, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Roger Moussalli, IBM, US
Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, US
Brent Nelson, Brigham Young University, US
Smail Niar, Université de Valenciennes, FR
David Novo, Université Montpellier 2, FR
Jose Nunez-Yanez, University of Bristol, UK
Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Ioannis Papaefstathiou, Technical University of Crete, GR
Cameron Patterson, Virginia Tech, US
Christian Pilato, Columbia University, US
Thilo Pionteck, Universität zu Lübeck, DE
Marco Platzner, Universität Paderborn, DE
Christian Plessl, Universität Paderborn, DE
Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, Technical University of Crete, GR
Daniel Poznanovic, Cray, US
Madhura Purnaprajna, Amrita University, IN
Rodric Rabbah, IBM, US
Kyle Rupnow, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, SG
Mazen Saghir, American University of Beirut, LB
Kentaro Sano, Tohoku University, JP
Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Paul Schumacher, Xilinx, US
Olivier Sentieys, Université de Rennes 1, FR
Muhammad Shafique, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, DE
Lesley Shannon, Simon Fraser University, CA
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Nicolas Sklavos, University of Patras, GR
Ioannis Sourdis, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, SE
Dirk Stroobandt, Universiteit Gent, BE
Henry Styles, Xilinx, US
Jürgen Teich, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE
Russ Tessier, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US
David Thomas, Imperial College London, UK
Tim Todman, Imperial College London, UK
Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Ritsumeikan University, JP
Lionel Torres, Université Montpellier 2, FR
Jim Tørresen, Universitetet i Oslo, NO
Steve Trimberger, Xilinx, US
Wim Vanderbauwhede, University of Glasgow, UK
Tanya Vladimirova, University of Leicester, UK
Qiang Wang, Huawei, US
John Wawrzynek, University of California Berkeley, US
Norbert Wehn, Universität Kaiserslautern, DE
Markus Weinhardt, Hochschule Osnabrück, DE
Gabriel Weisz, Information Sciences Institute, US
Steve Wilton, University of British Columbia, CA
Michael Wirthlin, Brigham Young University, US
Stephan Wong, Technische Universiteit Delft, NL
Roger Woods, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Sotirios Xydis, National Technical University of Athens, GR
Yoshiki Yamaguchi, University of Tsukuba, JP
Wei Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
Zhiru Zhang, Cornell University, US
Daniel Ziener, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE
Peter Zipf, Universität Kassel, DE

Steering Committee

Chairman

Patrick Lysaght, Xilinx, US

Jürgen Becker, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, DE
Koen Bertels, Technische Universiteit Delft, NL
Eduardo Boemo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ES
João M. P. Cardoso, Universidade do Porto, PT
Peter Y. K. Cheung, Imperial College London, UK
Martin Danek, Daiteq, CZ
Apostolos Dollas, Technical University of Crete, GR
Fabrizio Ferrandi, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Manfred Glesner, Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE
John Gray, consultant, UK
Reiner Hartenstein, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, DE
Andreas Herkersdorf, Technische Universität München, DE
Udo Kebschull, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, DE
Wayne Luk, Imperial College London, UK
Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology, FI
Lionel Torres, Université Montpellier 2, FR
Jim Tørresen, Universitetet i Oslo, NO
Roger Woods, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Previous Editions

FPL 2015: London, UK
FPL 2014: Munich, DE
FPL 2013: Porto, PT
FPL 2012: Oslo, NO
FPL 2011: Chania, GR
FPL 2010: Milano, IT
FPL 2009: Prague, CZ
FPL 2008: Heidelberg, DE
FPL 2007: Amsterdam, NL
FPL 2006: Madrid, ES
FPL 2005: Tampere, FI
FPL 2004: Leuven, BE
FPL 2003: Lisbon, PT
FPL 2002: La Grande-Motte, FR
FPL 2001: Belfast, UK
FPL 2000: Villach, AT
FPL 1999: Glasgow, UK
FPL 1998: Tallinn, EE
FPL 1997: London, UK
FPL 1996: Darmstadt, DE
FPL 1995: Oxford, UK
FPL 1994: Prague, CZ
FPL 1993: Oxford, UK
FPL 1992: Vienna, AT
FPL 1991: Oxford, UK

26th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications

Tutorial TM1Embedded Design Using LabVIEW Real-Time and FPGA

Tutorial TM2Hyperscale FPGA Research on Catapult

Tutorial TM3Energy-efficient Acceleration for Neuro-inspired Computing On-a-Chip

Tutorial TM4Practical on Benchmarking Real-Time and Energy Constrained 3D Robot Vision Applications with SLAMBench

Tutorial TF1Embedded Systems and OpenCL on the Cyclone V SoC

Tutorial TF2Pynq for Zynq Devices

Tutorial TF3Accelerating Big Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark, and Memcached on Datacenters on Modern Clusters

Workshop WM1FPGAs for Software Programmers (FSP 2016)

Workshop WF1Soft Errors and Programmable Logic (SEPL 2016)

Workshop WF2Security in Reconfigurable Devices: Challenges and Solutions (SecRec 2016)

Workshop WF3Reconfigurable Computing — From Embedded Systems to Reconfigurable Hyperscale Servers

General Chairs

Programme Chairs

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs

PhD Forum, Demo Night, and Industrial Events Chairs

Proceedings Chair

Publicity Chair

Local Arrangements Chair

Local Arrangements Team

Registration Chairs

Chairman

Technical Sponsor

Platinum Level

Golden Level

Silver Level

Tutorial TM1
Embedded Design Using LabVIEW Real-Time and FPGA

Tutorial TM2
Hyperscale FPGA Research on Catapult

Tutorial TM3
Energy-efficient Acceleration for Neuro-inspired Computing On-a-Chip

Tutorial TM4
Practical on Benchmarking Real-Time and Energy Constrained 3D Robot Vision Applications with SLAMBench

Tutorial TF1
Embedded Systems and OpenCL on the Cyclone V SoC

Tutorial TF2
Pynq for Zynq Devices

Tutorial TF3
Accelerating Big Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark, and Memcached on Datacenters on Modern Clusters

Workshop WM1
FPGAs for Software Programmers (FSP 2016)

Workshop WF1
Soft Errors and Programmable Logic (SEPL 2016)

Workshop WF2
Security in Reconfigurable Devices: Challenges and Solutions (SecRec 2016)

Workshop WF3
Reconfigurable Computing — From Embedded Systems to Reconfigurable Hyperscale Servers