Herbert Grunbacher – författare

This book is the proceedings volume of the 10th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and its Applications (FPL), held August 27 30, 2000 in Villach, Austria, which covered areas like reconfigurable logic (RL), reconfigurable computing (RC), and its applications, and all other aspects. Its subtitle "The Roadmap to Reconfigurable Computing" reminds us, that we are currently witnessing the runaway of a breakthrough. The annual FPL series is the eldest international conference in the world covering configware and all its aspects. It was founded 1991 at Oxford University (UK) and is 2 years older than its two most important competitors usually taking place at Monterey and Napa. FPL has been held at Oxford, Vienna, Prague, Darmstadt, London, Tallinn, and Glasgow (also see: http://www. fpl. uni kl. de/FPL/). The New Case for Reconfigurable Platforms: Converging Media. Indicated by palmtops, smart mobile phones, many other portables, and consumer electronics, media such as voice, sound, video, TV, wireless, cable, telephone, and Internet continue to converge. This creates new opportunities and even necessities for reconfigurable platform usage. The new converged media require high volume, flexible, multi purpose, multi standard, low power products adaptable to support evolving standards, emerging new standards, field upgrades, bug fixes, and, to meet the needs of a growing number of different kinds of services offered to zillions of individual subscribers preferring different media mixes.

This book contains papers first presented at the SecondInternational Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic andApplications (FPL '92), held in Vienna, Austria, inAugust-September 1992. The growing importance of field-programmable devices,especially of field-programmable gate arrays, isdemonstrated by the increased number of papers submitted in1992. Of the 70 papers submitted, 23 were selected for thisbook. The first three papers were invited and discussstrategic issues and give surveys. Three papers deal withnew FPGA architectures and five papers introduce methods andtools. The last twelve papers report applications focusingon rapid prototyping or new FPGA-based computerarchitectures. The invited papersare: "Overview of complex array-basedPLDs" by G. Biehl; "Technologies and utilization of fieldprogrammable gate arrays" by J. Isoaho, A. Nummela, andH. Tenhunen; and "Some considerations on field-programmablegate arrays and their impact on system design" by A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.