Proceedings of the 19th ACM/SIGDA international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays

We welcome you to the 19th annual ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. This is premier venue for disseminating research advances in a wide range of topic areas related to FPGAs and FPGA-like technologies. In response to the FPGA 2011 Call for Papers, 82 papers were submitted. From these, the program committee accepted 21 full-length papers (25.6% acceptance rate). We also continued the practice started in 2010 of accepting a number of short (fourpage) papers in order to broaden the participation in the conference, and highlight interesting new projects. The authors of these papers are given the opportunity to give a five-minute oral presentation, followed by a poster presentation to spur discussion. This year we have 16 short papers. Additionally, there are over 20 poster-only presentations that allow authors to interact with attendees more directly. This year's symposium features a pre-conference workshop, "The Role of FPGAs in a Converged Future with Heterogeneous Programmable Processors", run by Jonathan Rose (University of Toronto) and Guy Lemieux (University of British Columbia). All FPGA 2011 attendees are encouraged to participate. We will also have an evening panel, organized by John Wawrzynek (UC Berkeley), entitled "Should the Academic Community Launch an Open Source FPGA Device and Tools Effort?"