1. Welcome to FPGA 2019!

2. Tremendous Interest in FPGAs
ML/AI and data-center-deployment of FPGAs has exploded interest in our field
Now, anyone can “rent” time on an FPGA!
8 corporate sponsors
Attendance of 242 as of Sunday morning (includes 67 students)

3. Thanks! Stephen Neuendorffer, Program Chair Jing Li, Publicity Chair
Members of the Program Committee
Jing Li, Publicity Chair
Jason Anderson, Finance Chair
Brad Hutchings, Best Paper Committee Chair
Deming Chen, Panel Chair
Travel grant committee: Suhaib Fahmy, Jeff Goeders, Yun (Eric) Liang
John and Joanne Lateulere

4. Submissions Total of 161 submissions, 139 reviewed (40%) Type Total
Accepted
Rate
Regular 92 24
26%
Short Paper 40 6
15%
Reviewed Tutorial 7 2
29%
139 32
23%

5. Submission Areas 37% Design of FPGAs 58% Design in FPGAs
28% Machine Learning

6. Submissions by Country

7. Peer Review Process 58 members of the TPC 515 total reviews (24%)
23 industry; 35 academia
515 total reviews (24%)
Paper selection process:
First Round (~3 reviewers / paper)
Clarification questions sent to authors
Second Round (~3-5 reviewers / paper)
Gain consensus and Author clarifications
Online discussions (146 messages total)
Full-day meeting at Xilinx in November

8. The Program at a Glance Most Sessions in Laguna Grande DEFG
Sunday
Tutorial (Chair: Stephen Neuendorffer)
24-Feb
Machine Learning 1 (Chair: Jason Cong)
Machine Learning 2 (Chair: Andrew Ling)
Reception
Monday
Keynote (Chair: John Lockwood)
25-Feb
Computing Architectures (Chair: John Lockwood)
Poster Session 1 (Chair: George Constantinides)
CAD (Chair: Sinan Kaptonoglu)
Synthesis (Chair: Martin Langhammer)
Poster Session 2 (Chair: Phillip Leong)
Tutorial (Chair: Phillip Leong)
Banquet
Tuesday
Tutorial (Chair: Alireza Kaviani)
26-Feb
Networks and NOCs (Chair: Grace Zgheib)
Heterogenous Platforms (Chair: Vinod Kathail)
Devices and Security (Chair: Jeffrey Goeders)
Poster Session 3 (Chair: Kees Vissers)
Memory (Chair: Herman Schmit)
Most Sessions in Laguna Grande DEFG
Deep Dive Sessions in Laguna Grande C
Lunch is in the Atrium
Reception and Banquet in Laguna Grande ABC
Posters in Seaside Room

9. Deep Dive Sessions Two tutorials have associated Deep Dive sessions
Everyone is invited to the tutorial
After tutorial, those registered for the Deep Dive sessions meet in Laguna Grande C

10. Monday Night Banquet
Panel: “FPGAs in Supercomputers: Opportunities or Folly”
Hal Finkel (Argonne National Lab)
Martin Herbordt (Boston University)
Wen-Mei Hwu (UIUC)
Manish Muttal (Xilinx)
Venkata Krishnan (Intel)
Moderator: Deming Chen (UIUC)
And...
Special Congratulations and Acknowledgements

11. Best Paper Award 4 nominations (See program) Best paper committee:
Brad Hutchings (BYU)
Ilya Ganusov (Intel) 
Carl Ebeling (UW)
Dinesh Gaitonde (Xilinx)
$500 award
Will be presented at close of conference
Please stay tuned!

12. Some Logistics Schedule is very tight
Session chairs will enforce time limits
Full presentations: total of 25 minutes each
20 minutes for the presentation
5 minutes for Q & A
Short talks: 5 minutes each
No Q & A
Meet authors at the next poster session after the talk
Slides will be shown from the chair’s laptop
Contact your chair as soon as possible if you haven’t yet provided your slides
Slides will be posted online

13. Welcome to FPGA 2019!