FPGA is our passion
We are changing the world through this. So you can!
Join the FPGA Hackathon we organize in Kraków to learn more about the technology gaining more and more popularity!
Sharing this passion is the reason why we decided to create this Conference and Hackathon.
FPGA technology is one of the foundations for the revolutionary projects like fast telecommunication or autonomous cars. Thanks to the fast data processing and an ability to work on many resources, FPGA is a key in banking and insurance sector (acceleration of calculations and risk analysis based on data) or stock operations.
And that’s not all!
The mission of the event is to spread the knowledge of FPGA topics, meeting interesting guests and common networking.
Conference Stream
Conference: 25 November 2022
What do you get at The Conference?
- Gain knowledge of the latest FPGA challenges and solutions
- Meet with inspiring specialists and build a social and business relationship
- Attend interesting lectures
- Have the opportunity to share your knowledge with FPGA specialists and enthusiasts
- Learn new cool facts about FPGA usage in the space industry and space-oriented topics
Hackathon: 26–27 November 2022
Hackathon main task
We have reached Mars, colonized it, developed the economy and have the resources to grow even more.
The Mars surface has been covered with a number of mega-cities, each of which, to a greater or lesser extent improves the quality of life for everyone on the planet. There has been a high degree of technological development in fields that are providing a basic life support. Despite that many aspects of daily life still requires improvements.
Once there was a time when everyone thought that the mission is doomed to be a complete failure, due to the very harsh conditions on the Red Planet. However, brave pioneers have proved everyone wrong and now the mission is a colossal success. This great achievement inspired the “Martian Base Management” to announce a call for “Engineers” for the new Project. The best recruits, in addition to be placed onto the “Hall of Fame” will have a real impact on improving everyone’s living conditions on the planet.
As a participant, you will be assigned to a team representing one particular city. Within a given team, based on the specifications you receive, you will have to create “Helpers” – simple but functional drones that will help in everyday Martian life.
The condition for receiving a contract is to complete the tasks presented in 24 hours – only then the Planetary Board will receive clear feedback that the time is right for this type of undertaking, and those selected in the competition are very likely to meet the next challenges that surely will arise as the Project evolves.
What do you need?
A team of 2-3 people ready for the challenge (individual registration will not be possible).
If you don’t have a team contact us and we will help!
Programming skills with FPGA background (even if it’s just a little, it is good enough) / Technical skills in FPGA-related areas
What do we provide?
Development board per team with USB programmer cable and power supplier (Cyclone V GX Starter Kit)
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Access to selected FPGA Design and Verification related tools under provided licenses
- Intel Quartus Prime Lite
- Questa Advanced Simulator – Siemens EDA
- Onespin – Siemens EDA
- MATLAB & Simulink – MathWorks
Riviera-PRO – Aldec
What are you fighting for?
In addition to the enormous knowledge you gain, we guarantee great fun with FPGA enthusiasts, just like You! Don’t forget about material prizes from our sponsors and event partners.
Here is a sneak peek of the amazing awards waiting for the best Teams.
Each Team Member gets 1 set of prizes.
1st place
DJI Mavic MINI 2 4K ZOOM
Terasic DE10-Nano Development Kit
2nd place
Onyx Boox Nova Air Color
Terasic DE10-Nano Development Kit
3rd place
Smartwatch Huawei GT 2 Pro Sport
Terasic DE10-Nano Development Kit
Where are we competing?
The third edition of the FPGA Hackathon is organized in a hybrid manner this year.
You can participate in two ways:
- in-person – visit us in Krakow Technology Park
- online form all around the world
We are looking forward to meeting you all!
Conference Schedule
To Be Announced Soon
Conference Schedule
08:45 AM – 09:00 AM CEST
Conference Opening
09:00 AM – 09:40 AM CEST
Michał Kuklewski
Thales Alenia Space
FPGAs in Space Communication for Dummies
09:40 AM – 9:50 AM CEST
Coffee Break
9:50 AM – 10:50 AM CEST
Rakesh Jain
SIEMENS
Vendor Independent FPGA Implementation for Safety-Critical Designs
10:50 AM – 11:00 AM CEST
Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 11:40 AM CEST
Jakub Hajkuś
To Jakiś Kosmos
Sending humans to mars: a beginner's guide
11:40 AM – 11:50 AM CEST
Coffee Break
11:50 AM – 12:20 PM CEST
Adam Milik, PhD
ALDEC
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the FPGAs How to make FPGAs work in space
12:20 PM – 1:15 PM CEST
Lunch Break
1:15 PM – 1:45 PM CEST
Paweł Dowgiałło
INTEL
Using FPGAs for pre-silicon validation
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM CEST
Andrzej Stasiak, PhD
INTEL
Hardware design performance insights at up & running FPGA
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM CEST
Coffee Break
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM CEST
Piotr Orleański, DSc
CBK PAN Warszawa
To Be Announced Soon
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM CEST
Coffee Break
3:30 PM – 4:20 PM CEST
Tom Richter
MathWorks
Integrated Workflows for Deploying Deep Neural Networks on FPGAs
4:20 PM – 4:30 PM CEST
Coffee Break
4:30 PM – 5:15 PM CEST
Tomasz Rożek, PhD
Nauka To Lubię
The Space around us - You didn't know that about smartphones
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM CEST
Conference Closure
Hackathon Schedule
26th November, 2022
11:00 AM CEST
Opening Ceremony
Hackathon opening and task presentation
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM CEST
Hackathon Tasks Q&A Session
Time for participants to dispel any doubts about the tasks and what to do
12:00 PM CEST
The Lift-Off!
The official start of the hacking!
12:00 PM – 12 AM CEST
Attractions
Stretching Exercises
3 x VR set with Beat Saber
ALDEC - Training about Tools & Products
SIEMENS - Training about Tools & Products
PW Science Club & MathWorks - Rocket Model & Mars Rover presentation
27th November, 2022
12:00 PM CEST
The Landing
End of the hacking
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
Technical Break
Validating all task solutions provided by participants/winners?
1:00 PM CEST
Winners Presentation & Hackaton Closure
Meet our speakers
To Be Announced Soon
Michał Kuklewski
Thales Alenia Space
Michał Kuklewski works with Thales Alenia Space in Switzerland since August 2021. His main responsibilities include development and simulation for different HDL-HDL-related projects.
He has over 7 years of experience in developing FPGA solutions for space applications and equipment testing, primarily Microchip (Microsemi) and Xilinx FPGAs. Michał has a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Technology in Warsaw.
Read moreJakub Hajkuś
To Jakiś Kosmos
Kuba Hajkuś run the Polish YouTube channel To Jakiś Kosmos! which literally means This is Cosmos, but is also a common phrase for the term Extraordinary.
He creates content about Extraordinary space technologies: orbital rockets and other human made space stuff. If you are looking for space technology explainer videos and live coverages of orbital rocket launches go visit his channel.
Read moreAdam Milik, PhD
ALDEC
Adam Milik - Is a co-simulation specialist at Aldec and an academic teacher at the Silesian University of Technology of Gliwice with 24 years of experience. His main interests are: high-level direct hardware synthesis of control programs (PLCs) and computation algorithms, logic synthesis for programmable devices, co-simulation in heterogeneous environments, control program implementation and partitioning for multithreaded execution.
Read morePaweł Dowgiałło
INTEL
Paweł Dowgiałło graduated from the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland with MsC in Microelectronics. Over the course of his professional career, Pawel has gathered experience working in multiple companies. At Aldec he worked as an FPGA RTL developer and verification engineer where he was primarily delivering FPGA emulation and prototyping features for modeling various types of ASIC memories. At Adva Optical Networking Pawel was responsible for the development and validation of FPGA IPs for Adva’s ethernet metro-class products. In the rt 9 years of his professional career, Pawel has been leading multiple FPGA emulation and prototyping projects for Intel products like PCH Manageability Engine, Ethernet switches or novel CPU architectures for graph arithmetic. Over his employment at Intel Pawel has become recognized emulation and prototyping expert.
Read moreAndrzej Stasiak, PhD
INTEL
Andrzej Stasiak is an experienced hardware/software FPGA IP architect/engineer.
His professional carrier started in 1997 as a hardware IP developer in an international corporation. For broadening his technical horizons, Andrzej accepted an assistant professor position at Technical University leading researches & giving lectures covering hardware architecture and design domains. He defended his PhD thesis in 2007 in hardware-software codesign domain. Andrzej moved back to the industry continuing his professional journey joining the Intel Technology Poland. He participates in and leads various hardware/software projects, mainly: hardware architecture/design/development, HW/SW performance analysis, FPGA/ASIC technology, software low level architecture/design/development, widely understood research & development.
Many may find Andrzej (but not only) on mountain trails, sea lines or road bicycle racing competitions.
He believes the knowledge & experience sharing between universities and industry, is a key aspect to move forward and make our lives just better.
Read morePiotr Orleański, DSc
CBK PAN Warszawa
Piotr Orleański, DSc. Eng. in Electronics. During 40 years of work, he has gained enormous experience in the construction of satellite scientific instruments, including many for astronomical observations. He led many international satellite projects as a Polish Co-Investigator or Chief Engineer. Some of them were Integral, Herschel, and BRITE– projects with high importance to Polish astronomy. As part of his five-year employment with FHNW in Switzerland, he was responsible for the technical implementation of the STIX instrument in the SolarOrbiter mission (solar X-ray research). Currently, eight instruments he authored or co-authored are working in space: four in Earth orbits, two in Mars orbit, two in the International Space Station and one on its way to Mercury. The last was launched in February 2020 towards the Sun. He collaborated on space projects with many institutes and enterprises in the global space sector. He is the vice-chairman of the Council of the Polish Space Agency and a member of the Presidium of the Space and Satellite Research Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Button textTom Richter
MathWorks
Tom Richter joined MathWorks in Germany in 2011 and worked for 10 years as a Training Engineer for Model-Based Design, Signal Processing, Communications, and Code Generation. With a strong focus on ASIC and FPGA design, he also developed training courses for HDL code generation and HW/SW co-design. Since 2021, Tom works as an Application Engineering Specialist for HDL and System-on-Chip. Tom has a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Ulster in Belfast and a Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg.
Read moreTomasz Rożek, PhD
Nauka To Lubię
Tomasz Rożek, PhD in physics, is a popular internet creator, well-known popular science journalist and popularizer of science. Author of the channel / podcast / blog "Science. I like it". Author of several best-selling scientific books. Author and host of radio and television programs
Button textFrequently Asked Questions
What is the FPGA Hackathon and Conference – Hack into Mars?
It’s a social coding contest where FPGA developers collaborate to solve given tasks and compete for prizes. Hackathon will be preceded by FPGA subject related Conference . This Event is also a great networking opportunity!
Who is this Event for?
The Conference is for everyone interested in FPGA subject.
The Hackathon is for students and professionals of any engineering and technology career, enthusiasts of microcontrollers, FPGAs, programming and electronics in general.
If you would like to have your first experience solving basic problems of FPGA or you are already experienced and you want to challenge your skills on FPGA, then this hackathon is for you!
How much does it cost?
FREE. Registration and participation in both Hackathon and Conference is free of charge.
When and where?
25th – 27th November , 2022 . Conference – online. Hackathon – Krakow Technology Park and online.
How many people should be in a Team?
The Team should consist of 2-3 people.
I don’t have a Team, what now?
We do encourage participants to start forming teams before the Event. However, if you don’t manage to find one, apply as an individual. In field ‘Team name’ please type – looking for the team. We are organizing a team forming activity before the hacking starts.
What is a task?
The detail regarding the task will be provided on Hackathon start day during the Event.
How will Teams be judged?
Judging criteria will be described in separate documents. Details coming soon.
What is the language of the contest?
The Hackathon and Conference is in English.
What should I prepare?
Prepare your laptop, mobile phone, wearable computing devices and whatever technology inspires you. Check your Internet access. Make sure that you will feel comfortable during intense hacking.
Do I have to stay the whole time during Hackathon?
Competitors don’t have to stay overnight to be eligible to win, but we strongly encourage to stay the whole 22h. At least one team member must be present at the results presentation to show their Team’s work effects.
What will be provided during Hackathon?
1 FPGA board per Team, virtual machines with SW delivered by our Sponsors required to fill the tasks. There will also be Mentors who will help you in troubles.
Will there be prizes?
You bet!
Where do I sign up?
Registration for The Event will start soon.
Note, there are separate registration forms for Conference and Hackathon.
What if I have more questions?
Email us and let us know how we can help. You can also find more details in FPGA Hackathon and Conference Terms and Regulations.
Are you interested but want to know more?
Check the FAQ at first.
If there’s no answer for your question, please feel free to contact us with an e-mail:
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