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Pdf version of the Call for Papers.

The IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines is the original and premier forum for presenting and discussing new research related to computing that exploits the unique features and capabilities of FPGAs and other reconfigurable hardware. Over the past two decades, FCCM has been the place to present papers on architectures, tools, and programming models for field programmable custom computing machines as well as applications that use such systems. Papers on the traditional topics of FCCM as described below are solicited. Novel research in the general area of reconfigurable computing is also encouraged.

Architectures and Programming Models

• Architectures for high performance and/or low power configurable computing
• New spatial architectures with immense parallelism but different basic components than FPGAs
• System-level architectures for reconfigurable computing in either real-time or non real-time systems
• Heterogeneous architectures that integrate a mix of coarse, fine, special purpose, and general-purpose hardware
• Implications and effects of new technologies, including nanotechnology on reconfigurable computing (and vice versa)
• Security enhancements for reconfigurable computing

Languages and Compilers

• New languages and development environments to describe spatial or heterogeneous applications
• Tools to make run-time reconfiguration more accessible to application designers
• Compilation and CAD techniques for reconfigurable computing systems and other spatial computers

Run-Time Systems and Run-Time Reconfiguration

• Operating system techniques to manage run-time reconfiguration of resources in reconfigurable computing or spatial computing systems
• Run-time CAD algorithms to support the above techniques or improve fault tolerance/avoidance
• Use of reconfigurability to build evolvable or adaptable computing systems
• Novel uses of run-time reconfiguration in application-specific systems
• Implications of run-time reconfiguration on security

Applications

• Applications that use reconfigurability to customize hardware for scientific computation, mobile communications, medical image processing, data and communication security, network infrastructure and other embedded systems. These papers should describe novel use of some particular attribute of the reconfigurable device used, or discuss lessons that will help other users.
• Comparison of application implementations on different spatial hardware, such as GPUs, multi-core processors, and FPGAs

Double-Blind Reviewing

FCCM 2015 will be using a double-blind reviewing process. This means that the reviewers should not be aware of the identity of the authors and the authors will not be aware of the identity of the reviewers. The double-blind process is intended to remove, as much as possible, the potential for reviewer bias that can arise because of who is doing the research or where the research is carried out. Please reference your own prior research if it is possible to do so in the paper without revealing your identity. See the Call for Papers for more information.

Conflicts of Interest

It is important to indicate reviewers that may have a potential conflict of interest with your paper. A reviewer has a conflict of interest if it there can be the perception of favoritism regarding how a paper is reviewed. In a perfect, double-blind world, it should not be necessary to indicate potential conflicts, but there are cases where a reviewer can still figure out the authors so it is important that potential conflicts are flagged. Example conflicts include:

• the reviewer is from the same institution as an author
• the reviewer is an author of the paper
• the reviewer is a former supervisor of an author within the last six years
• the reviewer has collaborated with the author on any project within the last six years

On the submission form, authors will be asked to indicate committee members that have a conflict of interest. This is the primary way that conflicts will be identified so this is an important step for authors to help uphold the integrity of the review process. Please DO NOT indicate program committee members that do not have a conflict with your paper. You may be asked to explain why you indicated that someone has a potential conflict of interest. Please make sure that all co-authors have reviewed the list. Student authors should make sure that their supervisors have seen the list.