The Second IEEE International Conference on
Field-Programmable Technology (FPT'03)

Venue: The University of Tokyo, Japan
December 15-17, 2003

First Call for Papers

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 will be 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:                 July 15, 2003.
* Notification of acceptance:           September 20, 2003.
* Final papers & registration due:      October 18, 2003.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Kunihiro Asada (Co-Chair), The University of Tokyo
Masahiro Fujita (Co-Chair), The University of Tokyo
Philip Leong (Program Co-Chair), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Makoto Ikeda (Program Co-Chair), The University of Tokyo
Yoshio Mita (Financial Chair), The University of Tokyo
Satoshi Komatsu (Local Arrangement), The University of Tokyo