FCCM 2025: Call for Papers

The 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) will be held from May 4 – 7, 2025, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.

Submission Website: https://fccm2025.hotcrp.com/

FCCM is the premier forum for presenting and discussing new research related to computing that exploits the unique features and capabilities of FPGAs and other reconfigurable hardware. FCCM seeks to embrace its role as the venue where “firsts” are presented by encouraging submissions describing new forward-thinking research on emerging technologies with in-field reconfiguration capabilities for the upcoming post-Moore’s Law era.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Custom Computing and Reconfigurable Architectures:

• Heterogeneous and mixed signal digital/analog field customizable accelerators
• Neuromorphic emulation and accelerators
• Memory centric computing architectures
• Overlays, coarse grained reconfigurable architectures
• Clusters, data centers, and large systems
• IoT and Embedded SoC, MPSoC architectures with reconfigurable devices
• Security enhancements for reconfigurable computing
• Customizable soft processor systems

Abstractions, Programming Models, and Tools:

• Use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for FPGA design
• Domain-specific languages, frameworks, and open-source hw/sw synthesis/compilation tools
• Design tools, instrumentation, debug for designer productivity
• High-level synthesis
• Software-defined-systems (e.g. radio, networks, frameworks for new domains)
• CAD tools, abstractions, and languages for mixed analog/digital fabrics

Run Time Reconfiguration:

• Run-time management and scheduling of reconfigurable hardware
• System resilience/fault tolerance for reconfigurable hardware
• Evolvable, adaptable, approximate, or autonomous reconfigurable computing systems
• Security assessment and enhancement of run-time reconfiguration

Applications

• Evaluations and analysis on custom computing architectures with GPUs, NPUs, or DSPs
• Post Quantum Cryptography, Quantum control and emulation
• Safety critical, reliable and high assurance
• Security detection and prevention, and Side Channel analysis and Attack
• Digital twin, modeling, and acceleration

Paper Types

Submissions can be made for any of the two paper types:

• Traditional technical long papers: Introduce and evaluate new technologies. These papers must have strong empirical results and address significant challenges of the corresponding problem. Page length is 8 pages (excluding references).
• Short papers: Intended for new projects, early results, late breaking, and work that can be presented concisely. Page length is 4 pages (excluding references).

Important Dates

All deadlines apply to the Anywhere on Earth (UTC – 12) timezone

Task	Deadline
Abstracts Due (All Papers)	January 10, 2025
Submissions Due (All Papers)	January 19, 2025
Workshop Proposals Due	February 23, 2025
Rebuttal Period	February 16 – 24, 2025
Artifact Form Deadline	February 24, 2025
Notification of Acceptance	March 14, 2025
Demo Night Submissions Due	March 24, 2025
Notification of Acceptance (Demo)	March 31, 2025
Camera-Ready Submission Due	April 4, 2025
Early Registration Deadline	April 20, 2025
Hotel Rooms Reservation Deadline	April 11, 2025
Conference	May 4 - 7, 2025

Paper Formats

• Long papers are limited to 8 pages (excluding references).
• Short papers are limited to 4 pages (excluding references).
• Submissions accepted as posters will have a one-page extended abstract.

Page restrictions for all formats exclude references, which may use additional pages.

Submissions violating the formatting requirements may be automatically rejected.

Paper Preparation

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.

• A conformant LaTeX template is available here. Overleaf users can find the LaTeX template here.
• A Microsoft Word template is available here.

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.

Review Process

FCCM uses a double-blind reviewing system. Manuscripts must not identify authors or their affiliations.

FCCM 2025 includes a rebuttal phase. Specific questions from reviewers will be made available by February 16, 2025. Authors have the option to provide an up to 500-word response by February 24, 2025.

Artifact Evaluation

Authors of accepted full-length papers can optionally participate in an artifact evaluation process.