1st Korea HEP-FPGA Firmware Developers' Forum 2025

25 Aug 2025, 12:00 → 28 Aug 2025, 19:00 Asia/Seoul

강릉원주대학교 해양과학교육원

Jaebak Kim (Korea Uni), Jason Lee (University of Seoul), Minsuk Kim (KWNU)

Introduction to the FPGA Firmware Developers' Forum for High-Energy Physics Students

The FPGA School is a four-day, fast-paced workshop designed to give graduate-level high-energy-physics (HEP) students a hands-on command of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)—from fundamental concepts to cutting-edge AI acceleration.

The program blends concise lectures with extended laboratory sessions so participants can immediately apply what they learn.

Whether your goal is trigger-level data processing for experiments like CMS, ALICE, EIC etc., low-latency AI inference, or simply demystifying programmable logic, this school provides the practical foundation and expert guidance to accelerate your research journey.

Monday, 25 August

14:00 → 20:20 Day 1: Introduction to FPGAs

15:00 Registration and Check-in

16:00 Welcom to the 1st Korea HEP-FPGA Firmware Developers' Forum

16:10 Invited talk from AMD

16:30 FPGA project 2 - Yonsei

16:50 Coffee Break

17:00 FPGA project 3 - KNU

17:20 FPGA project 4 - UoS

17:40 Overview/plan of workshop and poll

18:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 26 August

09:00 → 20:00 Day 2: FPGA Algorithms

09:00 Introduction to FPGA

09:45 Coffee Break

10:00 Introduction to HDL

10:45 Coffee Break

11:00 Introduction to FPGA workflow and boards

11:45 Lunch

14:00 Introduction to simple FPGA resources (clock, sliceLUT)

14:45 Coffee Break

15:00 Hands on with FPGAs

18:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 27 August

09:00 → 20:00 Day 3: FPGA and AI

09:00 Writing firmware logic (Pipeline, and FSM)

09:45 Coffee Break

10:00 Introduction to simulation

10:45 Coffee Break

11:00 Introduction to AI

11:45 Lunch

14:00 Introduction to IP cores

14:45 Coffee Break

15:00 Hands on with FPGA and AI

18:00 Dinner

Thursday, 28 August

09:00 → 14:35 Day 4: FPGA Timing & High-Speed Communication

09:00 Introduction to HLS

09:45 Coffee Break

10:00 Introduction to ML4HLS

10:45 Coffee Break

11:00 Hands on with HLS and ML4HLS

11:45 Closing - Future Research Directions

12:00 Lunch and end of Forum