The First IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT) Venue: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 16-18th December, 2002 Call for Participation Co-organizers The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CUHK The IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter Sponsored by The Croucher Foundation The IEEE Hong Kong Section Electron Devices Society Chung Chi College, CUHK In cooperation with The IEEE Computer Society The IEEE Electron Devices Society CONFERENCE THEME Field-programmable technologies, including complex programmable logic devices and systems containing such components, have become an important topic of research for universities, government, and industry worldwide. Field-programmable devices combine the flexibility of software with the performance of hardware. Their regular structure facilitates rapid improvement in density, capability and speed. Field-programmable systems have a wide variety of applications, such as accelerating computations in molecular biology and medical imaging, low-power control and data processing for palm-size computers, and emulating novel electronic products before manufacture; even advanced microprocessors from Intel and ARM have benefited from field-programmable hardware emulators. The areas of interest of this conference include the following: * Applications of field-programmable technology: biomedical and scientific computation accelerators, network processors, real-time systems, rapid prototyping, hardware emulation, digital signal processing, interactive multimedia, machine vision, computer graphics, cryptography, robotics, manufacturing systems, embedded applications, evolvable and biologically-inspired hardware. * Design techniques and tools for field-programmable technology: placement, routing, synthesis, verification, technology mapping, partitioning, parallelisation, timing optimization, design and run-time environments, languages and modeling techniques, provably-correct development, intellectual property core based design, domain-specific development, hardware/software co-design. * Architectures for field-programmable technology: field programmable gate arrays, complex programmable logic devices, field programmable interconnect, field programmable analogue arrays, field programmable arithmetic arrays, memory architectures, interface technologies, low-power techniques, adaptive devices, reconfigurable computing systems, other emerging technologies. * Device technology for field-programmable logic: programmable memories including non-volatile, dynamic and static memory cells and arrays, interconnect devices, circuits and switches, emerging VLSI device technologies. SUBMISSIONS The program committee solicits papers describing original research in field-programmable technology, including, but not limited to, the areas of interest indicated above. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format, following the IEEE style (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). Full papers should not exceed 8 pages in length, while posters should not exceed 2 pages in length. Submission guidelines and instructions are available from http://www.icfpt.org. A limited number of grants will be available to support attendance at the conference. Questions regarding the FPT conference, including the submission procedure and grants, can be sent to: fpt@icfpt.org DEADLINES and KEY DATES * Submission of papers: 15th July, 2002. * Notification of acceptance: 20th September, 2002. * Final papers & registration due: 18th October, 2002. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order) Erik Cleage, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Altera Corporation Michael J. Flynn, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Patrick Lysaght, Director, Xilinx Labs Tsugio Makimoto, Chief Technology Officer, Sony Corporation Paul Master, Chief Technical Officer, Quicksilver Technology ORGANISING COMMITTEE Philip Leong (Co-Chair), Chinese University of Hong Kong Wayne Luk (Co-Chair), Imperial College, UK S.C. Chan, University of Hong Kong Chak Chung Cheung, Chinese University of Hong Kong C.S. Choy, Chinese University of Hong Kong Anthony Fong, City University of Hong Kong Ted Kok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Henry Lau, University of Hong Kong Kin Hong Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong Monk Ping Leong, Cluster Technology Ivan K.H. Leung, Center for Large Scale Computation Kai Wing Tse, University of Hong Kong Yu Liang Wu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Cedric Yiu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Evangeline F.Y. Young, Chinese University of Hong Kong ADVISORY BOARD Anant Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hideharu Amano, Keio University Jeffrey Arnold, Adaptive Silicon Peter Athanas, Virginia Tech Juergen Becker, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH) Don Bouldin, University of Tennessee Gordon Brebner, University of Edinburgh Duncan Buell, University of South Carolina Mike Butts, Cadence Design Systems Peter Y.K. Cheung, Imperial College Richard Cliff, Altera Andre DeHon, California Institute of Technology Oliver Diessel, University of New South Wales Apostolos Dollas, Technical University of Crete Hossam ElGindy, University of New South Wales Michael Flynn, Stanford University Masahiro Fujita, University of Tokyo Manfred Glesner, Darmstadt University of Technology Yoshiaki Hagiwara, Sony Reiner Hartenstein, University of Kaiserslautern Scott Hauck, University of Washington Jifeng He, United Nations University Xianlong Hong, Tsinghua University Brad Hutchings, Brigham Young University T.T. Hwang, National Tsing Hua University Craig Jin, University of Sydney Patrick Kane, Xilinx Tom Kean, Algotronix David Kearney, University of South Australia Fabrice Kordon, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paul Lai, Score Concept Semiconductor Stephen Lai, Solomon Systech Chen-Yi Lee, National Chiao Tung University and CIC Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University Patrick Lysaught, Xilinx Tsugio Makimoto, Sony Bill Mangione-Smith, University of California Los Angeles Oskar Mencer, Bell Laboratories Paul Metzgen, Altera George Milne, University of Western Australia Tulika Mitra, National University of Singapore Toshiaki Miyazaki, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories C.H. Ng, SUGA Electronics Victor Ng, Micom Tech Christof Paar, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Ian Page, Celoxica Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California Michel Renovell, LIRMM Jonathan Rose, University of Toronto Martine Schlag, UC Santa Cruz Mark Shand, Compaq System Research Center Satnam Singh, Xilinx Tim Southgate, Altera Thambipillai Srikanthan, Nanyang Technological University Yihe Sun, Tsinghua University Russell Tessier, University of Massachusetts Lionel Torres, LIRMM Steve Trimberger, Xilinx Laurence Turner, University of Calgary John Villasenor, University of California Los Angeles Jean Vuillemin, Ecole Normale Superieure John Watson, Quicksilver Steve Wilton, University of British Columbia Weng Fai Wong, National University of Singapore Roger Woods, Queen's University of Belfast Hiroto Yasuura, Kyushu University