Important Dates

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, reconfigurable computing and applications. The conference continues to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry from around the world. Many of the advances in reconfigurable system architectures, applications, embedded processing, design automation methods and tools have been first published in the proceedings of the FPL conference series.

This year, the 31st edition of FPL will be celebrated virtually. The main conference will take place from 1 Sept until 3 Sept, 2021. The workshops and tutorials will be organized on 30 Aug until 31 Aug, 2021.

Contributions within (but not limited to) the following topics related to Field-Programmable Logic and Applications are very welcome:

• Architectures and Technology
• Applications and Benchmarks
• Programming Methods and Tools

Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers in IEEE double column format. Submitted papers are limited to 6 pages plus references (references must not exceed two pages). This is a strict limit, and papers exceeding this limit will be rejected automatically.

Authors are required to use the standard IEEE templates in format A4 and not to include page numbers. Templates are available directly from IEEE (link). All contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF format. FPL 2020 uses a double-blind reviewing system. Manuscripts must not identify authors or their affiliations; those that do will not be considered. 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”.

Papers accepted as full papers will appear in the proceedings as 6 pages papers plus up to 2 pages of references. Short papers will have 4 pages plus up to 2 pages of references in the proceedings. Authors of accepted full papers will have the possibility to buy 2 additional pages. Authors of accepted short papers will have the possibility to buy 1 additional page.
The conference proceedings will be made available online during the conference. The conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE Xplore.

The FPL 2021 PhD forum is suited for PhD students in the following two ways. First, it is an excellent occasion for PhD students to present their work in progress or preliminary results, and receive early feedback from other researchers in the domain. Secondly, it is a unique opportunity for PhD students, whether fresh or close to completion to give a broad overview of the their work and draw attention to it from both the academic and industrial worlds.

PhD Forum authors are invited to submit 2-page papers using the same format as FPL 2021 regular papers. PhD Forum papers should include clear descriptions of the project’s motivation, objectives, problem definition, addressed solutions, current status, and planned work if applicable. Contributions based on preliminary results or on work in progress are particularly encouraged. Accepted PhD Forum papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at a special poster session. Prior to this session, presenters will be offered the opportunity to draw attention to their posters through a short “elevator pitch” (2-minute presentation).

Authors are required to use the standard IEEE templates in format A4 and not to include page numbers. Templates are available directly from IEEE (link). All contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF format. FPL 2020 uses a double-blind reviewing system. Manuscripts must not identify authors or their affiliations; those that do will not be considered. 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”.

The FPL 2021 Demo Night is an excellent opportunity for participants to demonstrate and disseminate their work, to increase their visibility, to interact with attendees as well as to impress the FPL community and to make real impact. Demonstrations may include, but are not limited to, academic or commercial experiments, prototypes, tools, platforms, systems, and applications. The event will take place on one of the conference evenings.

Demo Night presenters are invited to submit 1-page abstracts using the same format as FPL 2021 regular papers before the deadline. An additional cover page should contain the following information:

• Demo title.
• Names and affiliations of all authors.
• Description of the main objectives and relevance of the demo to the FPL community.
• Short biographies of demo presenters.
• Any logistical requirements the demonstration may have (e.g. Internet access)

Due to the pandemic situation, we want to be more inclusive about attending the conference and whom you can reach with your work. Even though we might make the conference physically, we want to give authors and attendees the chance to make part of it in countries whose restrictions do not allow them to travel or simply do not want to risk their health. For that, we ask the authors of the accepted demos to prepare a 5-minute video presentation of your demo, replicating what you would have done if you were presenting in a traditional poster setup. You can be creative and add shots of the prototypes if you want to show them. We do not require any special software or equipment to produce the videos but make sure that your videos are of good quality for a streaming service like YouTube but not larger than 250MB.

In addition to the video, we ask that you also provide us the poster used for your presentation. Submit it as a single pdf file.
Please keep in mind that when submitting your video, you agree with us for it to be available to the public.

Name your video file "DemoNUM_video", and your pdf poster file as "DemoNUM_poster" (where NUM is your demo number, e.g. "Paper15_video", and "Paper15_slides"). (instructions of how to submit will be added later)

You may already be registered to FPL2021, but you will still need to register (free registration) to the FPL2021 online platform (To be announced).

During the conference days, as an author, you can participate in the event (virtual or presential) with a short 3-minute pitch for your work during Demo Nigth. After every pitch, we will have a Discussion Session where you need to be present to participate (virtual or presential) to answer any questions that the audience may pose for your work.

All demo posters will be published on the FPL 2021 program and website, and the abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings.

The FPL 2021 Research Projects event is suited for participants interested to disseminate their activities in a starting, ongoing or recently finished research project (e.g., national- or european-funded), which relates to topics within the scope of FPL. This event is an excellent occasion for presenting their research goals, activities, and results to the FPL community, as well as for receiving feedback and for initiating new research opportunities and collaborations.

Researchers that are interested in participating in the event with a presentation of their research project are invited to submit a short title and an extended abstract of their work before the deadline of May 14th, 2021. Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers in IEEE double column format. The submitted papers in the Research Project Event are extended abstracts limited to 2 pages. Accepted papers have to be registered as ordinary papers and will appear in the proceedings. The proceedings will be made available online during the conference and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore. Please send your extended abstracts by email the FPL 2021 Research Projects Event Chairs (FPL2021-EU-Projects@esda-lab.gr) with subject: “FPL2020 Research Project Event submission”.