conferences/fosdem2024/fosdem2024_cfp.mdwn

   1 # Call for Participation
   2
   3 - Web version of this CfP:
   4   <https://libre-soc.org/conferences/fosdem2024/fosdem2024_cfp/>
   5
   6 This email is a Call For Participation in the
   7 **Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI Devroom** at FOSDEM 2024.
   8
   9 Key dates:
  10
  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
  17
  18 ## Useful links
  19
  20 - Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI Devroom Schedule:
  21   <https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/libre-soc-fpga-and-vlsi/>
  22 - Libre-SOC homepage:
  23   <https://libre-soc.org>
  24
  25 ## CFP Introduction
  26
  27 This devroom covers topics mostly related to hardware design
  28 (FPGA and VLSI/ASIC).
  29
  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.)
  34
  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
  38 to the masses.
  39
  40 Please distribute widely to interested parties: anything related to
  41 VLSI and Libre/Open Tape-outs and Silicon development is welcome.
  42
  43 We are looking for any libre or open source topic relating to
  44 hardware design, including but not limited to:
  45
  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
  50
  51 This year we welcome talks that are either:
  52
  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
  56 deeper explanation)
  57
  58 ### What is FOSDEM?
  59
  60 **FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas
  61 and collaborate.**
  62
  63 Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software
  64 from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
  65
  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,
  68 Belgium, Europe.**
  69 If you are unable to attend in-person you can watch any live stream
  70 from the main tracks and developer rooms.
  71
  72 ### Important stuff:
  73
  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/)
  78
  79 ## Desirable topics:
  80
  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:
  85
  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
  98 - FPGAs
  99   * Libre/Open FPGA designs
 100   * FPGA toolchains and Reverse-Engineering
 101   * FPGA workflow
 102 - VLSI RTL and HDL
 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)
 110   * Automated testing
 111
 112 ### Topic overlap
 113
 114 There is quite a lot of overlap this year with:
 115
 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/),
 119
 120 ## How to submit your proposal
 121
 122 To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2024 Pretalx
 123 website](https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/cfp).
 124
 125 Click **Submit a proposal**.
 126
 127 Make sure to choose the **Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI**
 128 devroom in the track drop-down menu (otherwise we might miss it).
 129
 130 ### What should be in your submission
 131
 132 - Name
 133 - Short bio
 134 - Contact info
 135 - Title (funny titles are ~~required~~/appreciated)
 136 - Abstract (what you're going talk about, supports markdown)
 137 - Duration
 138
 139 On the second page of the submission form:
 140
 141 - License, please use **CC BY-SA 4.0**.
 142 - Resources to be used during the talk
 143
 144 ### Optional:
 145
 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)
 150
 151 The second page will include fields for:
 152
 153 - Extra materials for reviewers (optional, for organisers only)
 154 - Additional information about the speaker (optional).
 155
 156 ### Recordings
 157
 158 *(thank you to the Open Hardware and CAD/CAM devroom for this snippet)*
 159
 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.
 165
 166 We require affirmative consent to this license.  Please include the
 167 following statement in your submission notes:
 168
 169 ```
 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.
 173 Sincerely,
 174 <NAME>
 175 ```
 176
 177 Once you've completed the required sections, submit and we'll get
 178 back to you soon!
 179
 180 ## Things to be aware of
 181
 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
 186   day of the event.
 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/>
 195
 196 ## Important Dates
 197
 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)
 204
 205 ## Contact us
 206
 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
 213
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