1 # Call for Participation
3 - Web version of this CfP:
4 <https://libre-soc.org/conferences/fosdem2024/fosdem2024_cfp/>
6 This email is a Call For Participation in the
7 **Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI Devroom** at FOSDEM 2024.
11 - Friday, 1st December, 00:00 (CET, UTC+1) - CfP deadline
12 - Friday, 15th December, 00:00 (CET, UTC+1) - Devroom schedule and
13 final speaker confirmation
14 - **Saturday, 3rd February** - First day of FOSDEM 2024
15 - Saturday, 3rd February - Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI Devroom date
16 - **Sunday, 4th February** - Second day of FOSDEM 2024
20 - Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI Devroom Schedule:
21 <https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/libre-soc-fpga-and-vlsi/>
23 <https://libre-soc.org>
27 This devroom covers topics mostly related to hardware design
30 Libre-SOC is a major project in the open-hardware/free-software
31 space, and will be sharing progress made so far in areas of efficient
32 SVP64 assembler, formal verification, and general Power ISA
33 development (proposed advanced biginteger instructions, etc.)
35 Libre/Open VLSI, very excitingly, has begun to take off, recently.
36 NLnet sponsors several VLSI-related projects (Cell Libraries, HDL, VLSI
37 tools), Efabless and Skywater bring 90nm, 130nm, 180nm MPWs
40 Please distribute widely to interested parties: anything related to
41 VLSI and Libre/Open Tape-outs and Silicon development is welcome.
43 We are looking for any libre or open source topic relating to
44 hardware design, including but not limited to:
46 - Chip Design (including nanoscale 3D printing)
47 - VLSI and FPGA Hardware Design
48 - Libre/Open Processors in FPGA and/or ASIC
49 - ISA design and usage
51 This year we welcome talks that are either:
53 * 10 min (lightning talk, short introduction of project/topic)
54 * 25 min + 5 min Q&A (normal slot)
55 * 40 min + 10 min Q&A (extraordinary slot for a topic that needs a
60 **FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas
63 Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software
64 from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
66 FOSDEM 2024 will take place on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 February 2024.
67 It will be an in-person event at the **ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels,
69 If you are unable to attend in-person you can watch any live stream
70 from the main tracks and developer rooms.
74 - FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration.
75 - [FOSDEM website](https://fosdem.org/)
76 - [FOSDEM code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2024/practical/conduct/)
77 - [FOSDEM Schedule](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/)
81 This devroom welcomes anything related to making an ASIC,
82 or designing one, or using FPGAs, or developing
83 an FPGA Board, or developing tools and techniques that make VLSI ASIC
84 design easier: we'd love to hear from you. Here's a list of topics:
86 - Open Hardware projects
87 - ISA and Architecture design
88 * Simplified Vector extensions
89 - VLSI ASIC Design and Manufacture
90 * Libre/Open DIY Foundries (nanoscale 3D printing)
91 * Libre/Open VLSI tools and toolflow
92 * Libre/Open VLSI Cell Libraries
93 * VLSI Simulation and Verification
94 - VLSI Tools in use or in development
95 * Silicon-proven (QFlow, coriolis2, OpenLANE)
96 * Under development (LibreEDA, other)
97 * Advances in Algorithmics in Place and Route and Layout
99 * Libre/Open FPGA designs
100 * FPGA toolchains and Reverse-Engineering
103 * Advanced and innovative alternative HDL tools
104 * Formal Correctness Proofs
105 * Testing methodologies
106 * Hardware Trust (and how to break it)
107 - Software Engineering as applied to Hardware
108 * Continuous Integration for VLSI
109 * Automated tool development (RTL to GDS-II)
114 There is quite a lot of overlap this year with:
116 * [Open Hardware and CAD/CAM](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/open-hardware-and-cadcam/),
117 * [Embedded, Mobile and Automotive](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/embedded-mobile-and-automotive/),
118 * [Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/open-source-firmware-bmc-and-bootloader/),
120 ## How to submit your proposal
122 To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2024 Pretalx
123 website](https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/cfp).
125 Click **Submit a proposal**.
127 Make sure to choose the **Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI**
128 devroom in the track drop-down menu (otherwise we might miss it).
130 ### What should be in your submission
135 - Title (funny titles are ~~required~~/appreciated)
136 - Abstract (what you're going talk about, supports markdown)
139 On the second page of the submission form:
141 - License, please use **CC BY-SA 4.0**.
142 - Resources to be used during the talk
146 - Description (more detail description, supports markdown)
147 - Submission notes (for the organiser only, not made public)
148 - Session image (if you have an illustration to go with the talk)
149 - Additional speaker/s (if more than one person presenting)
151 The second page will include fields for:
153 - Extra materials for reviewers (optional, for organisers only)
154 - Additional information about the speaker (optional).
158 *(thank you to the Open Hardware and CAD/CAM devroom for this snippet)*
160 The talks will be recorded and live-streamed during FOSDEM2024.
161 The recordings will be published under the same licence as all
162 FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Only presentations will be recorded,
163 not informal discussions and whatever happens during breaks
164 between presentations.
166 We require affirmative consent to this license. Please include the
167 following statement in your submission notes:
170 If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license
171 all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the
172 Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License.
177 Once you've completed the required sections, submit and we'll get
180 ## Things to be aware of
182 * The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET)
183 <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/belgium/brussels>
184 * There will be a Q/A session after the talk is over.
185 Please make sure that you will be available on the
187 * If you're not able to attend the talk in-person, live stream links
188 will be available on the FOSDEM schedule page:
189 <https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/>.
190 * FOSDEM Matrix channels are specific to each devroom,
191 the general link is: <https://matrix.to/#/#fosdem:fosdem.org>
192 * **Matrix bridge to the LibreSOC IRC channel**:
193 <https://matrix.to/#/#_oftc_#libre-soc:matrix.org>
194 * FOSDEM 2024 FAQ: <https://fosdem.org/2024/faq/>
198 - **December 1st: submission deadline**
199 - FAQ - is the submission deadline final?
200 - Yes. The new submission system is stricter, and thus the,
201 1st of December is the final date.
202 - ASAP: announcement selected talks (15th Dec or earlier)
203 - February 3rd: FOSDEM! (with live Q&A during recorded talks)
207 - [Andrey Miroshnikov](mailto:andrey at technepisteme.xyz)
208 - "octavius" on #fosdem and #libre-soc Libera.Chat IRC
209 - [Sadoon Albader](mailto:sadoon <sadoon@albader.co>)
210 - "sadoon[m]1" on #libre-soc Libera.Chat IRC
211 - [Luke Leighton](mailto:lkcl at lkcl.net)
212 - "lkcl" or "mwfc" on #fosdem Libera.Chat IRC