FCCM 2022 Call for Papers
The IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) 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.
The FCCM 2022 will be a hybrid event. There will be a live face-to-face conference at NYC and a virtual program. Please refer to the FCCM website for details. At least one author will be required to register and attend the conference (in-person or virtually). Failure to present at the conference may result in the removal of the submission from IEEE Xplore.
Submissions are solicited on the following topics related to Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCMs) including, but not limited to:
Architectures
- Novel reconfigurable architectures, including overlay architectures
- Architectures for high performance and/or low power computing
- Security assessment and enhancements for reconfigurable computing
- Specialized memory systems including volatile, non-volatile, and hybrid memory subsystems
- Emerging technologies with in-field reconfiguration abilities
- Clusters, data centers, or large systems of reconfigurable devices
- Heterogeneous programmable architectures
Abstractions, Programming Models, and Tools
- Abstractions, programming models, interfaces, and runtimes, including virtualization
- New languages and design frameworks for spatial or heterogeneous applications
- High-level synthesis and designer productivity in general
- Software-Defined-systems (e.g. radio, networks, frameworks for new domains)
- Customizable soft processors systems
Reconfiguration
- Run-time management of reconfigurable hardware
- System resilience/fault tolerance for reconfigurable hardware
- Evolvable, adaptable, or autonomous reconfigurable computing systems
- Security assessment and enhancement of run-time reconfiguration
Applications
- Data center or cluster with reconfigurable applications
- New uses of run-time reconfiguration in applications-specific systems
- Applications that utilize reconfigurable technology for performance and efficiency, and particularly submissions that make comparisons with other highly parallel architectures such as GPUs or DSPs
- Novel use of state-of-the-art commercial FPGAs
Submission Website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fccm22
Important Dates:
All deadlines apply to the Anywhere on Earth (UTC – 12) timezone
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| Submissions Due (All Papers) |
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| Workshop Proposals Due | February 13, 2022 |
| Rebuttal Period | February 24 - 28, 2022 |
| Notification of Acceptance (All Papers) | March 21, 2022 |
| Demo Night Submissions Due | April 15, 2022 |
| Notification of Acceptance (Demo Night) | April 18, 2022 |
| Camera-Ready Submission Due | April 11, 2022 |
| Early Registration Deadline | April 19, 2022 |
| Conference | May 15 – May 18, 2022 |
Organizing Committee:
| General Chair | Zhiru Zhang | Cornell University |
| Program Chair | Eriko Nurvitadhi | Intel |
| Publications Chair | Gabriel Weisz | Microsoft |
| Finance Chair | Andrew Schmidt | University of Southern California ISI |
| Hybridization Chairs |
Ron Sass Peipei Zhou |
UNCC University of Pittsburgh |
| Sponsorship Chair | Lana Josipovic Guojie Luo |
ETH Peking University |
| Workshop Chairs | Yun (Eric) Liang Zhenman Fang |
Peking University SFU |
| Travel Awards Chair | Zhenman Fang | SFU |
| Publicity and Website Chair | Cong (Callie) Hao | Georgia Tech |
| Expo and Demo-Night Chair | Grace Zgheib | Intel |
| Local Arrangement Chair | Mohamed Abdelfattah Debjit Pal |
Cornell Tech Cornell University/University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) |
Paper Formats:
- Long papers are limited to 8 pages. Short papers are limited to 4 pages. Authors are encouraged to submit preliminary work as a 4-page short paper. This category is intended for new projects and early results or work that can be concisely presented in the 4-page budget. Submissions accepted as posters will have a 1-page extended abstract.
- Page restrictions for all formats exclude references, which may use additional pages. Submissions violating the formatting requirements may be automatically rejected. Do not submit the same work as more than one of the formats.
- Accepted papers will have the same page lengths as initial submissions. Short papers will have short oral presentations and long papers may have long or short presentations based on committee decisions on time required to present the material.
- All submissions should be written in English. An online submission link will be available on the FCCM website. Papers must conform to the US letter-sized IEEE conference proceedings format to be reviewed and published. A conformant LaTeX template is available here and a Microsoft Word template is available here. Overleaf users can find the LaTeX template here.
Review Process:
- FCCM uses a double blind reviewing system. Manuscripts must not identify authors or their affiliations. Authors are encouraged to cite their own work but must not implicitly identify themselves. For example, references that clearly identify the authors (“We build on our previous work…”) should be written as “This work builds on XYZ [citation]”. Do not put a “deleted for double-blind” entry in the reference section.
- In the case of widely-available Open Source software, authors should cite the website(s) but not claim to own them. Authors should also remember to mask grant numbers and other government markings during the review process. Note that there are resources to blind open-source repositories for review such as: https://github.com/tdurieux/anonymous_github. Papers that attempt to identify authors or leverage prior work or institutional support for a competitive advantage in the peer review process will not be considered. Placing a preliminary version of the unpublished paper on arXiv is not disqualifying, but it is also not encouraged; just because a paper can be unblinded by active search will not undermine the spirit of the double-blind review. Artifacts, including open-source designs and tools are encouraged; if there are questions about how to handle blind-review, contact the program chair.
FCCM 2022 includes a rebuttal phase. Specific questions from reviewers will be made available by February 24, 2022. Authors have the option to provide an up to 500-word response by February 28, 2022. Reviewers will consider the responses during final paper deliberations.
Simultaneous Submissions:
Papers must not be simultaneously under review or waiting to appear at another conference or in a journal, and must not be essentially the same as any paper that has been previously published. If a paper contains text or technical content that is similar to a previously published or submitted paper, that other paper should be cited in the FCCM submission, and the differences should be made clear.
Reviewer Conflicts
Authors must register any program committee conflicts as they submit their paper. Conflicts can include those that have co-authored a paper in the past 3 years, those that have current or recent shared institutional affiliation, or other situations in which the relationship would prevent a reviewer from being objective. Note that if an undeclared conflict is discovered, or a conflict is declared in an attempt to “game” the review process, the submission may be rejected. If you believe you may have a conflict with the program chair, please contact the program chair well in advance of the submission deadline.
Best Paper Award and a Special Section for the Best FCCM 2022 Papers in ACM TRETS:
FCCM 2022 will continue the tradition of having a best long and short paper award. We will also invite the authors of the best papers to extend their work to be considered for publication in a special section of ACM’s Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) for FCCM 2022.
Special Note to Authors:
Across all topics (and especially for application papers) successful manuscripts will include sufficient details to reproduce the results presented (e.g., full part numbers, software versions). Application papers should not just be an implementation of an application on an FPGA, but should show how reconfigurable technology is leveraged by the application, and should ideally contain insights and lessons that can be carried forward into future designs. Additional suggestions and guidelines are available on www.fccm.org. See the ACM/TCFPGA Hall-of-Fame (hof.tcfpga.org) and the set of previous FCCM Best Paper winners (wiki.tcfpga.org/FCCMBest) for outstanding examples of FCCM papers.
Questions
Questions about this call, submissions, and potential submissions should be directed to the program chair, Eriko Nurvitadhi.