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FPGA
City
Monterey
Country
United States
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Abstract

The ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field&#8211;Programmable Gate Arrays is the premier conference for presentation of advances in all areas related to FPGA technology&#046; For FPGA 2008, we are soliciting original submissions describing novel research and developments in the following (and related) areas of interes <b>Keywords:</b><ul type=&#8243;disc&#8243;><li><b>FPGA Architecture:</b> Novel logic block architectures, combination of FPGA fabric and system blocks (DSP, processors, memories, etc&#046;), design of routing fabrics, I/O interfaces, new commercial architectures, and architectural features&#046;</li><li><b>FPGA Circuit Design:</b> Novel FPGA circuits and circuit&#8211;level techniques, impact of process and design technologies, methods for analyzing and improving issues with soft&#8211;errors, leakage, static and dynamic power, clocking, power grid, yield, manufacturability, reliability, test, studies on future device technologies (e&#046;g&#046; nano&#8211;scale, 3D gate) for FPGAs&#046;</li><li><b>CAD for FPGAs:</b> Placement, routing, retiming, logic optimization, technology mapping, system&#8211;level partitioning, logic generators, testing and verification, CAD for FPGA&#8211;based accelerators, CAD for incremental FPGA design and on&#8211;line design mapping and optimization, CAD for modeling, analysis and optimization of timing and power&#046;</li><li><b>High&#8211;Level Abstractions and Tools for FPGAs:</b> General&#8211;purpose and domain&#8211;specific models, languages, tools, and techniques to facilitate the design, development, debugging, verification, and deployment of large&#8211;scale and high&#8211;performance FPGA&#8211;based applications and systems – e&#046;g&#046; DSP, networking or embedded system tools and methodologies&#046;</li><li><b>FPGA&#8211;Based and FPGA&#8211;like computing engines:</b> Compiled accelerators, reconfigurable computing, adaptive computing devices, systems and software, rapid&#8211;prototyping&#046;</li><li><b>Design Studies:</b> Innovative uses of FPGA fabric for computation, exploitation of FPGA features and architectures, optimization of FPGA&#8211;based cores (e&#046;g&#046; arithmetic, DSP, security, embedded processors, memory interfaces, or other functions)&#046;</li><li><b>Applications:</b> Implementation of designs on FPGAs to achieve high&#8211;performance, low&#8211;power, or high&#8211;reliability&#046; Novel design algorithms that take advantage of FPGA features&#046; Application&#8211;domain studies to analyze or improve FPGA implementation for networking, DSP, embedded, audio/video, automotive, imaging and other relevant areas&#046;</li><li><b>Panel Outlines:</b> Topic proposals for the traditional Monday night Panel Session at FPGA&#046;</li></ul>