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FILENUMBER: 9406 BEGIN_KEYWORDS Special-Issue TVLSI FPGA END_KEYWORDS 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


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