The FPL2012 Awards

The Michal Servit Memorial Award

is in recognition of excellent paper quality at the 22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Oslo Norway, 2012 for

Correctly Rounded Floating-Point Division for DSP-Enabled FPGAs
Bogdan Pasca, Altera

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Michal Servit has been General Chair of FPL94 at Prague, the largest FPL ever held to that time. He has been an associate professor at EE dept. of the University of Prague (for his CV see http://www.fpl.uni-kl.de/FPL/mservit.html ). Michal Servit has attended all FPLs, and all the time he served as a reviewer, member of the program committee, and the steering committee of FPL, until the message reached us, that he did not survive a heart attack during vacations in Austria, December 5, 1997. The community misses with him as a cooperative and highly competent friend full of good ideas. He has been an important part of the FPL organization. The first Michael Servit Memorial Award has been initially organized by Stephen Guccione triggered by an idea from John Schewel.

The Stamatis Vassiliadis Memorial Award

is in recognition of excellent paper quality at the 22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Oslo Norway, 2012 for

Automatically Exploiting Regularity in Applications to Reduce
Reconfiguration Memory Requirements
Fatma Abouelella, Karel Bruneel and Dirk Stroobandt, Ghent University, Belgium

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Prof. Stamatis Vassiliadis (IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Member of the Dutch Academy of Sciences, and Professor at Delft University of Technology), is well known as an outstanding computer scientist and for establishing the SAMOS conference in 2001. When he passed away much too early on 7 April 2007, the community lost one of its most skilled and inspiring actors. Stamatis Vassiliadis was involved in the organization of many scientific conferences and he was the general chair of FPL2007.

The FPL Community Award

goes to the paper

A High Performance, Open Source SATA2 Core
Ashwin Mendon, Bin Huang and Ron Sass, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA

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This award is for authors who have made a significant contribution to the community by providing some material or knowledge in an open format that benefits the rest of the community. The award was introduced at FPL2010 in Milano by the organizers Fabrizio Ferrandi, Marco D. Santambrogio, and Jari Nurmi. We are happy to continue this tradition at FPL2012.