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The best FPGA papers of all time!
Clive Maxfield
2/22/2012 11:49 AM EST
The 20th International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays opens today in Monterey, California. As part of the 20th Anniversary Celebration, the ACM/SIGDA Technical Committee on FPGAs and Reconfigurable Computing has identified the 25 most significant papers from the first 20 years of the conference and is releasing that list today: CLICK HERE
These papers have impacted industry, described key building blocks in wide use throughout industry and academia, opened areas of research, resolved serious problems, illuminated difficult issues, and illustrated innovative ways to use FPGAs.
They span all areas of concern by the FPGA practitioners including architecture, design automation, circuits and technology, applications and reconfigurable computing. These papers capture a significant slice of the history of FPGA research and practice, and continue to deliver insights today. They represent "must read" background for research in the field.
Along with each original paper, this volume includes a one-page endorsement written by an expert in the field that captures the historical context in which the paper was written and offers a retrospective view on its significance.
The papers were selected by a year-long process that started with nominations from the entire FPGA community. Nominated papers were reviewed by a panel of experts drawn from past chairs of the FPGA Symposium. Reviewed papers were then ranked against one another by the panel and the final twenty-five papers were chosen by consensus of the experts. These twenty-five papers represent about five percent of the total papers that have appeared in the FPGA Symposium.
A hardcopy volume that includes the endorsements and the complete set of original papers is available from the ACM (ACM Order Department, PO Box 30777, New York, NY 10087-0777, USA, acmhelp@acm.org).
For more information, contact André DeHon (andre@acm.org) 215-605-5791 or Steve Trimberger (steve.trimberger@xilinx.com) 408-879-5061.
If you found this article to be of interest, visit Programmable Logic Designline where you will find the latest and greatest design, technology, product, and news articles with regard to programmable logic devices of every flavor and size (FPGAs, CPLDs, CSSPs, PSoCs...).
Also, you can obtain a highlights update delivered directly to your inbox by signing up for my weekly newsletter – just Click Here to request this newsletter using the Manage Newsletters tab (if you aren't already a member you'll be asked to register, but it's free and painless so don't let that stop you [grin]).
These papers have impacted industry, described key building blocks in wide use throughout industry and academia, opened areas of research, resolved serious problems, illuminated difficult issues, and illustrated innovative ways to use FPGAs.
They span all areas of concern by the FPGA practitioners including architecture, design automation, circuits and technology, applications and reconfigurable computing. These papers capture a significant slice of the history of FPGA research and practice, and continue to deliver insights today. They represent "must read" background for research in the field.
Along with each original paper, this volume includes a one-page endorsement written by an expert in the field that captures the historical context in which the paper was written and offers a retrospective view on its significance.
The papers were selected by a year-long process that started with nominations from the entire FPGA community. Nominated papers were reviewed by a panel of experts drawn from past chairs of the FPGA Symposium. Reviewed papers were then ranked against one another by the panel and the final twenty-five papers were chosen by consensus of the experts. These twenty-five papers represent about five percent of the total papers that have appeared in the FPGA Symposium.
A hardcopy volume that includes the endorsements and the complete set of original papers is available from the ACM (ACM Order Department, PO Box 30777, New York, NY 10087-0777, USA, acmhelp@acm.org).
For more information, contact André DeHon (andre@acm.org) 215-605-5791 or Steve Trimberger (steve.trimberger@xilinx.com) 408-879-5061.
If you found this article to be of interest, visit Programmable Logic Designline where you will find the latest and greatest design, technology, product, and news articles with regard to programmable logic devices of every flavor and size (FPGAs, CPLDs, CSSPs, PSoCs...).
Also, you can obtain a highlights update delivered directly to your inbox by signing up for my weekly newsletter – just Click Here to request this newsletter using the Manage Newsletters tab (if you aren't already a member you'll be asked to register, but it's free and painless so don't let that stop you [grin]).
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Dr DSP
2/22/2012 11:56 PM EST
Clearly 1999 was the year of the FPGA with 5 of the 25 papers published in that year. It is also interesting to look at the topics that year vs. the topics in the last 5 years. FPGAs are just being tweaked these days- no sign of a break thru on the horizon that I can see. Any other thoughts on this?
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Max the Magnificent
2/23/2012 8:38 AM EST
@DrDSP "FPGAs are just being tweaked these days"
Actually I would disagree -- look at the Xilinx chips using 2.5D to get 20M ASIC gate equivalents -- or the Altera and Xilinx chips with FPGA fabric and dual core ARM Cortex-A9
What about the Tier Logic technology -- although they failed it was a really great idea. What about Achronix and Tabula. What about the Xilinx radiation-tolerant SRAM-based FPGAs?
Also, I saw some pretty amazing things (with regard to using FPGAs -- reconfiguration and genetic algorithms) at the University of Oslo in Norway last week -- I'll be talking more about these in my next Norway blog...
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drward
2/27/2012 6:45 PM EST
Most of those papers were concerned with improvements in the placement and routing of HDL designs onto an FPGA, not with improvements in the FPGAs themselves. As Max pointed out, the capabilities of FPGAs are increasing at an amazing pace.
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abrokalakis
2/23/2012 5:29 AM EST
As a note: these papers highlight the best papers published in this conference (FPGA). There are a lot of other conferences with important FPGA papers, e.g. FPL, FPT, as well as a lot of VLSI or hardware related conferences.
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Max the Magnificent
2/23/2012 8:39 AM EST
Well yes, of course, but I was looking for a punchy article headline ... it wouldn't have read so well if I had started to add a bunch of qualifications (grin)
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