# ACM TRETS Best Paper Awards

The ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) has awarded Best Paper Awards to the following papers:

#### 2026
**[Understanding the Potential of FPGA-based Spatial Acceleration for Large Language Model Inference](https://doi.org/10.1145/3656177)**  
Hongzheng Chen, Jiahao Zhang, Yixiao Du, Shaojie Xiang, Zichao Yue, Niansong Zhang, Yaohui Cai, and Zhiru Zhang

*Honorable Mentions*:  
[On the Malicious Potential of Xilinx’s Internal Configuration Access Port (ICAP)](https://doi.org/10.1145/3633204)  
Nils Albartus, Maik Ender, Jan-Niklas Möller, Marc Fyrbiak, Christof Paar, and Russell Tessier

[HLPerf: Demystifying the Performance of HLS-based Graph Neural Networks with Dataflow Architectures](https://doi.org/10.1145/3655627)   
Chenfeng Zhao, Clayton Faber, Roger Chamberlain, and Xuan Zhang

#### 2020
**[VTR 8: High-performance CAD and Customizable FPGA Architecture Modelling](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3388617)**  
Kevin E. Murray, Oleg Petelin, Sheng Zhong, Jia Min Wang, Mohamed Eldafrawy, Jean-Philippe Legault, Eugene Sha, Aaron G. Graham, Jean Wu, Matthew J. P. Walker, Hanqing Zeng, Panagiotis Patros, Jason Luu, Kenneth B. Kent and Vaughn Betz
 

#### 2019
**[FINN-R: An End-to-End Deep-Learning Framework for Fast Exploration of Quantized Neural Networks](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3242897)**  
Michaela Blott, Thomas B. Preußer, Nicholas J. Fraser, Giulio Gambardella, Kenneth O’brien, Yaman Umuroglu, Miriam Leeser, Kees Vissers
 
#### 2018
**[General-Purpose Computing with Soft GPUs on FPGAs](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3173548)**  
Muhammed Al Kadi, Benedikt Janssen, Jones Yudi and Michael Huebner

#### 2017
**[Hoplite: A Deflection-Routed Directional Torus NoC for FPGAs](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3027486)**  
Nachiket Kapre and Jan Gray

#### 2016
**[Fine Grained Interconnect Synthesis](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2892641)**  
Alex Rodionov, David Biancolin and Jonathn Rose.

#### 2015
**[The Cibola Flight Experiment](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2629556)**  
Heather Quinn, Diane Roussel-Dupre, Mike Caffrey, Paul Graham, Michael Wirthlin, Keith Morgan, Anthony Salazar, Tony Nelson, Will Howes, Eric Johnson, Jon Johnson, Brian Pratt, Nathan Rollins and Jim Krone

[Source](https://dl.acm.org/journal/trets/announcements)