This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logics and Applications, FPL ''98, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August/September 1998.
The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book from a total of 86 submissions. Also included are 30 refereed high-quality posters. The papers are organized in topical sections on design methods, general aspects, prototyping and simulation, development methods, accelerators, system architectures, hardware/software codesign, system development, algorithms on FPGAs, and applications.