FPT2015 PC chair´s report

This year we have a strong FPT program with a full paper acceptance rate of ?21% from a pool of 106 submissions. This is a ?25% increase in the number of submissions over last year while still maintaining a near identical number of accepted papers. We strictly enforced all advertised deadlines, and significantly revised the Program Committee to help improve review quality. We had 132 original registrations with 106 complete submissions at the deadline. We selected 22 full papers (21 in the final program), 23 posters (16 in the final program). Our papers cover a wide range of technical topics including routine reports on FPGA acceleration of myriad applications, advances in high-level synthesis+debug, and investigations in FPGA architectures. We urge the attendees to pay particular attention to the following papers nominated for consideration as Best Papers in the conference 1. ?Energy Minimization in the Time-Space Continuum? by Hyunseok Park, Shreel Vijayvargiya and Andre DeHon, University of Pennsylvania 2. ?Accelerated Cell Imaging and Classification on FPGAs for Quantitative-phase Asymmetric-detection Time-stretch Optical Microscopy? by Junyi Xie, Xinyu Niu, Andy K. S. Lau, Kevin K. Tsia and Hayden K. H. So, University of Hong Kong 3. ?Analyzing the Divide between FPGA Academic and Commercial Results? by Elias Vansteenkiste, Henri Fraisse and Alireza Kaviani, Xilinx Inc. 4. ?An Adaptive Virtual Overlay for Fast Trigger Insertion for FPGA Debug? by Fatemeh Eslami and Steve Wilton, University of British Columbia, Vancouver