The recent years have shown a continuous interest in using reconfigurable computing platform for the design of application-specific computer systems. The advances in reconfigurable computing architecture, in algorithm implementation methods, and in automatic mapping methods of algorithms into hardware and processor spaces form together a new paradigm of computing and programming that has often been called `Computing in Space and Time' or `Computing without Computer'.

This conference focuses on the different approaches in engineering of reconfigurable systems and implementing of algorithms, including theory, architecture, algorithms, design systems and applications that demonstrate the benefits of reconfigurable computing.
 
 

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Theory, Mapping and Parallelization. Mapping algorithms into hardware, space-time mapping and synthesis of regular arrays, IP based methods, dataflow and functional programming approaches, formal methods using  logical specification and verification, developing correct circuits, the impact of reconfigurable hardware architectures onto algorithm parallelization, biologically inspired methods etc.

 
2. System Architectures, Aspects and Evaluation. Complex systems using reconfigurable processors, application-tailored reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip (SoC), architectures of SoCs, adaptive and evolvable systems, rapid system prototyping etc.

 
3. CAD: Specification, Partitioning and Synthesis. Hardware compilation, hardware/software codesign, IP-based specification and mapping methods for reconfigurable systems, object oriented models and mapping methods, hardware description languages, design environments and interfaces etc.

 
4. Reconfigurable Hardware Architectures. Dynamically reconfigurable hardware architectures, reconfigurable processor architectures, compiled accelerators, performance evaluation of reconfigurable SoCs, application-specific communication interfaces of reconfigurable SoCs, low power evaluation and optimization of reconfigurable systems, fault-tolerance using reconfigurable hardware, trade-offs measurements etc.

 
5. Algorithms and Optimization. Newly developed algorithms for efficient implementation on reconfigurable systems, in hardware, in space and time, algorithms for design optimization etc.

 
6. Applications. Possible applications areas of interest include, but are  not limited to: Classical image and signal processing ---digital filters, edge and line detection, morphological operators, motion and stereo estimation, discrete transformations, linear algebra, radar systems, object  recognition etc. Multimedia and virtual reality --- telecommunication, data compression, video imaging, image databases, computational geometry and  computer graphics, software radio, digital libraries, genetic databases etc.  Automotive industry --- lane detection and obstacle detection, vehicle guidance, traffic systems, object recognition, navigation of robots etc. Security systems --- object recognition and tracking, cryptology, Internet and security etc.

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