MICROELECTRONIC SYSTEMS NEWS
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Special-Issue TVLSI FPGA
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DATE: march 1997
TITLE: Special Issue of TVLSI on FPGA Technology
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE ON RECENT ADVANCES IN FPGA TECHNOLOGY
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VLSI SYSTEMS
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become an important
technology for the implementation of VLSI circuits and systems
due to the steady increase in FPGA density and speed. Aside from
main-stream use in reasonably high volume production, the field-
programmability and re-programmability of FPGAs enable many novel
and promising applications, including rapid system prototyping,
reconfigurable system designs, rapid system prototyping, circuit
emulation, and reconfigurable custom computing. This special is-
sue will be devoted to recent advances in all areas related to
the FPGA technology.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
o Advances in FPGA architectures, including design of programm-
able logic blocks, programmable interconnects, programmable I/Os,
and development of new FPGAs and field-configurable memories.
o Novel applications of FPGAs, including rapid prototyping, logic
emulation, reconfigurable custom computing, and dynamically
reconfigurable applications.
o New CAD algorithms and tools for FPGAs, including new algo-
rithms for sequential and combinational logic optimization,
technology mapping, partitioning, placement, routing, and de-
velopment of new FPGA synthesis or layout systems.
o Advances in field-programmable technology, including new pro-
cess and fabrication technologies, and field-programmable
analog arrays.
Authors of papers accepted for the 1997 ACM/SIGDA 5th Interna-
tional Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA'97) are
especially encouraged to submit an extended version of their pa-
pers for possible inclusion in the special issue. Submissions of
relevant work not presented at FPGA'97 are also welcome. This
special issue is being coordinated by Guest Editors Jason Cong of
Univ. of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Carl Ebeling of Univ.
of Washington.
Prospective authors should submit postscript versions of their
papers electronically using the www no later than March 31, 1997,
and indicate they should be considered for this special issue:
WWW
Alternatively, email may be used by contacting:
tvlsi@microsys6.engr.utk.edu
If neither of the electronic means is available to authors, trad-
itional paper manuscripts should be sent to:
IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems
c/o Prof. Bing Sheu
Electrical Engineering
Powell Hall, Room 604
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0271
dbouldin@utk.edu