FPGA Best Paper Awards

The ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) has awarded Best Paper Awards to the following papers: 
 2026 
 KANELÉ: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Efficient LUT-based Evaluation 
Duc Hoang, Aarush Gupta and Philip C Harris 
 2025 
 FlightVGM: Efficient Video Generation Model Inference with Online Sparsification and Hybrid Precision on FPGAs 
Jun Liu, Shulin Zeng, Li Ding, Widyadewi Soedarmadji, Hao Zhou, Zehao Wang, Jinhao Li, Jintao Li, Yadong Dai, Kairui Wen, Shan He, Yaqi Sun, Yu Wang and Guohao Dai 
 2024 
 Formal Verification of Source-to-Source Transformations for HLS 
Louis-Noël Pouchet, Emily Tucker, Niansong Zhang, Hongzheng Chen, Debjit Pal, Gabriel Rodríguez and Zhiru Zhang 
 2023 
 DONGLE: Direct FPGA-Orchestrated NVMe Storage for HLS 
Linus Y. Wong, Jialiang Zhang and Jing (Jane) Li 
 2022 
 RapidStream: Parallel Physical Implementation of FPGA HLS Designs 
Licheng Guo, Pongstorn Maidee, Yun Zhou, Chris Lavin, Jie Wang, Yuze Chi, Weikang Qiao, Alireza Kaviani, Zhiru Zhang and Jason Cong 
 2021 
 AutoBridge: Coupling Coarse-Grained Floorplanning and Pipelining for High-Frequency HLS Design on Multi-Die FPGAs 
Licheng Guo, Yuze Chi, Jie Wang, Jason Lau, Weikang Qiao, Ecenur Ustun, Zhiru Zhang and Jason Cong 
 2020 
 Buffer Placement and Sizing for High-Performance Dataflow Circuits 
Lana Josipović, Shabnam Sheikhha, Andrea Guerrieri, Paolo Ienne and Jordi Cortadella 
 2019 
 HeteroCL: A Multi-Paradigm Programming Infrastructure for Software-Defined Reconfigurable Computing 
Yi-Hsiang Lai, Yuze Chi, Yuwei Hu, Jie Wang, Cody Hao Yu, Yuan Zhou, Jason Cong and Zhiru Zhang 
 2018 
 FASTCF: FPGA-based Accelerator for Stochastic-Gradient-Descent-based Collaborative Filtering 
Shijie Zhou, Rajgopal Kannan, Yu Min and Viktor K. Prasanna 
 2017 
 ESE: Efficient Speech Recognition Engine with Compressed LSTM on FPGA 
Song Han, Junlong Kang, Huizi Mao, Yiming Hu, Xin Li, Yubin Li, Dongliang Xie, Hong Luo, Song Yao, Yu Wang, Huazhong Yang, William (Bill) J. Dally 
 2016 
 FPRESSO: Enabling Express Transistor-Level Exploration of FPGA Architectures 
Grace Zgheib, Manana Lortkipanidze, Muhsen Owaida, David Novo and Paolo Ienne 
 2015 
 Take the Highway: Design for Embedded NoCs on FPGAs 
Mohamed S. Abdelfattah, Andrew Bitar and Vaughn Betz 
 2014 
 Optimizing Effective Interconnect Capacitance for FPGA Power Reduction 
Safeen Huda, Jason Anderson and Hirotaka Tamura 
 2013 
 Polyhedral-Based Data Reuse Optimization for Configurable Computing 
Louis-Noel Pouchet, Peng Zhang, P. Sadayappan and Jason Cong 
 2012 
 Rethinking FPGAs: elude the flexibility excess of LUTs with and-inverter cones 
Hadi Parandeh-Afshar, Hind Benbihi, David Novo and Paolo Ienne 
 2011 
 CoRAM: an in-fabric memory architecture for FPGA-based computing 
Eric S. Chung, James C. Hoe, and Ken Mai