conferences/fosdem2024/fosdem2024_cfp.mdwn

   1 # Call for Participation
   2
   3 This email is a Call For Participation in the
   4 **Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI Devroom** at FOSDEM 2024.
   5
   6 Key dates:
   7
   8 - Friday, 1st December, 00:00 (CET, UTC+1) - CfP deadline
   9 - Friday, 15th December, 00:00 (CET, UTC+1) - Devroom schedule and
  10 final speaker confirmation
  11 - **Saturday, 3rd February** - First day of FOSDEM 2024
  12 - Saturday, 3rd February - Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI Devroom date
  13 - **Sunday, 4th February** - Second day of FOSDEM 2024
  14
  15 ## Useful links
  16
  17 - Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI Devroom Schedule:
  18   <https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/libre-soc-fpga-and-vlsi/>
  19 - Libre-SOC homepage:
  20   <https://libre-soc.org>
  21 - Copy of this CfP:
  22   <https://libre-soc.org/conferences/fosdem2024/fosdem2024_cfp/>
  23
  24 ## CFP Introduction
  25
  26 This devroom covers topics mostly related to hardware design
  27 (FPGA and VLSI/ASIC).
  28
  29 Libre-SOC is a major project in the open-hardware/free-software
  30 space, and will be sharing progress made so far in areas of efficient
  31 SVP64 assembler, formal verification, and general Power ISA
  32 development (proposed advanced biginteger instructions, etc.)
  33
  34 Libre/Open VLSI, very excitingly, has begun to take off, recently.
  35 NLnet sponsors several VLSI-related projects (Cell Libraries, HDL, VLSI
  36 tools), Efabless and Skywater bring 90nm, 130nm, 180nm MPWs
  37 to the masses.
  38
  39 Please distribute widely to interested parties: anything related to
  40 VLSI and Libre/Open Tape-outs and Silicon development is welcome.
  41
  42 We are looking for any libre or open source topic relating to
  43 hardware design, including but not limited to:
  44
  45 - Chip Design (including nanoscale 3D printing)
  46 - VLSI and FPGA Hardware Design
  47 - Libre/Open Processors in FPGA and/or ASIC
  48 - ISA design and usage
  49
  50 This year we welcome talks that are either:
  51
  52 * 10 min (lightning talk, short introduction of project/topic)
  53 * 25 min + 5 min Q&A (normal slot)
  54 * 40 min + 10 min Q&A (extraordinary slot for a topic that needs a
  55 deeper explanation)
  56
  57 ### What is FOSDEM?
  58
  59 **FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas
  60 and collaborate.**
  61
  62 Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software
  63 from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
  64
  65 FOSDEM 2024 will take place on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 February 2024.
  66 It will be an in-person event at the **ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels,
  67 Belgium, Europe.**
  68 If you are unable to attend in-person you can watch any live stream
  69 from the main tracks and developer rooms.
  70
  71 ### Important stuff:
  72
  73 - FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration.
  74 - [FOSDEM website](https://fosdem.org/)
  75 - [FOSDEM code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2024/practical/conduct/)
  76 - [FOSDEM Schedule](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/)
  77
  78 ## Desirable topics:
  79
  80 This devroom welcomes anything related to making an ASIC,
  81 or designing one, or using FPGAs, or developing
  82 an FPGA Board, or developing tools and techniques that make VLSI ASIC
  83 design easier: we'd love to hear from you.  Here's a list of topics:
  84
  85 - Open Hardware projects
  86 - ISA and Architecture design
  87   * Simplified Vector extensions
  88 - VLSI ASIC Design and Manufacture
  89   * Libre/Open DIY Foundries (nanoscale 3D printing)
  90   * Libre/Open VLSI tools and toolflow
  91   * Libre/Open VLSI Cell Libraries
  92   * VLSI Simulation and Verification
  93 - VLSI Tools in use or in development
  94   * Silicon-proven (QFlow, coriolis2, OpenLANE)
  95   * Under development (LibreEDA, other)
  96   * Advances in Algorithmics in Place and Route and Layout
  97 - FPGAs
  98   * Libre/Open FPGA designs
  99   * FPGA toolchains and Reverse-Engineering
 100   * FPGA workflow
 101 - VLSI RTL and HDL
 102   * Advanced and innovative alternative HDL tools
 103   * Formal Correctness Proofs
 104   * Testing methodologies
 105   * Hardware Trust (and how to break it)
 106 - Software Engineering as applied to Hardware
 107   * Continuous Integration for VLSI
 108   * Automated tool development (RTL to GDS-II)
 109   * Automated testing
 110
 111 ### Topic overlap
 112
 113 There is quite a lot of overlap this year with:
 114
 115 * [Open Hardware and CAD/CAM](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/open-hardware-and-cadcam/),
 116 * [Embedded, Mobile and Automotive](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/embedded-mobile-and-automotive/),
 117 * [Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/open-source-firmware-bmc-and-bootloader/),
 118
 119 ## How to submit your proposal
 120
 121 To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2024 Pretalx
 122 website](https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/cfp).
 123
 124 Click **Submit a proposal**.
 125
 126 Make sure to choose the **Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI**
 127 devroom in the track drop-down menu (otherwise we might miss it).
 128
 129 ### What should be in your submission
 130
 131 - Name
 132 - Short bio
 133 - Contact info
 134 - Title (funny titles are ~~required~~/appreciated)
 135 - Abstract (what you're going talk about, supports markdown)
 136 - Duration
 137
 138 On the second page of the submission form:
 139
 140 - License, please use **CC BY-SA 4.0**.
 141 - Resources to be used during the talk
 142
 143 ### Optional:
 144
 145 - Description (more detail description, supports markdown)
 146 - Submission notes (for the organiser only, not made public)
 147 - Session image (if you have an illustration to go with the talk)
 148 - Additional speaker/s (if more than one person presenting)
 149
 150 The second page will include fields for:
 151
 152 - Extra materials for reviewers (optional, for organisers only)
 153 - Additional information about the speaker (optional).
 154
 155 ### Recordings
 156
 157 *(thank you to the Open Hardware and CAD/CAM devroom for this snippet)*
 158
 159 The talks will be recorded and live-streamed during FOSDEM2024.
 160 The recordings will be published under the same licence as all
 161 FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Only presentations will be recorded,
 162 not informal discussions and whatever happens during breaks
 163 between presentations.
 164
 165 We require affirmative consent to this license.  Please include the
 166 following statement in your submission notes:
 167
 168 ```
 169 If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license
 170 all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the
 171 Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License.
 172 Sincerely,
 173 <NAME>
 174 ```
 175
 176 Once you've completed the required sections, submit and we'll get
 177 back to you soon!
 178
 179 ## Things to be aware of
 180
 181 * The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET)
 182   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/belgium/brussels>
 183 * There will be a Q/A session after the talk is over.
 184   Please make sure that you will be available on the
 185   day of the event.
 186 * If you're not able to attend the talk in-person, live stream links
 187   will be available on the FOSDEM schedule page:
 188   <https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/>.
 189 * FOSDEM Matrix channels are specific to each devroom,
 190   the general link is: </#/#fosdem:fosdem.org>
 191 * **Matrix bridge to the LibreSOC IRC channel**:
 192   <https://matrix.to/#/#_oftc_#libre-soc:matrix.org>
 193 * FOSDEM 2024 FAQ: <https://fosdem.org/2024/faq/>
 194
 195 ## Important Dates
 196
 197 - **December 1st: submission deadline**
 198   - FAQ - is the submission deadline final?
 199     - Yes. The new submission system is stricter, and thus the,
 200       1st of December is the final date.
 201 - ASAP: announcement selected talks (15th Dec or earlier)
 202 - February 3rd: FOSDEM! (with live Q&A during recorded talks)
 203
 204 ## Contact us
 205
 206 - [Andrey Miroshnikov](mailto:andrey at technepisteme.xyz)
 207   - "octavius" on #fosdem and #libre-soc Libera.Chat IRC
 208 - [Sadoon Albader](mailto:sadoon <sadoon@albader.co>)
 209   - "sadoon[m]1" on #libre-soc Libera.Chat IRC
 210 - [Luke Leighton](mailto:lkcl at lkcl.net)
 211   - "lkcl" or "mwfc" on #fosdem Libera.Chat IRC
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