Traditionally, FPGAs have avoided the consumer handheld market during to its stringent requirements for low power, low cost, and small space. As consumer electronics become more sophisticated, new technology breakthroughs in manufacturing, packaging, and display solutions emerge. Market dynamics remain affected by the same factors: price, power and space.
The IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
is a forum to present and discuss new research on the use of
field-programmable technologies for high performance and/or low energy
computation. Submissions are solicited on a wide variety of topics
related to custom computing, including but not limited to:
Architecture of reconfigurable computing devices and systems,
including coprocessors, attached processors, and hybrid architectures
Languages, compilation techniques, tools, and environments for programming and run time support of custom computing machines
Applications of reconfigurable computing, including the use of
reprogrammable logic in scientific computation, mobile communications,
medical image processing, data and communication security, network
infrastructure and other embedded systems
Implications and effects of nanotechnology and reconfigurable computing on each other
Possible forms and system implications of reconfiguration for fault tolerance and avoidance
Novel use of reconfigurability, including evolvable hardware and adaptive computing