The 17th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2010) will be held in Atlanta, USA in April 2010. RAW 2010 is associated with the 24th Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop is one of the major meetings for researchers and practitioners to present ideas, results, and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in Reconfigurable Computing.

Reconfigurable computing: architectures, devices, algorithms, tools and models

As reconfigurable devices have grown in complexity and capabilities over the years, so has the complexity and variety of applications that must harness their features with unprecedented effectiveness. The key to effectively harnessing these features - heterogeneous fabrics, support for partial and run time reconfiguration (RTR), high speed IO, embedded microprocessors, etc. - includes research on areas such as algorithms, CAD tools, compilers, operating systems, and thermal/precision/fault management. Research challenges within these areas are expected to become even more complex with emerging trends in reconfigurable computing: 3D integration with other FPGA/memory chips, use of nano-technology devices as building blocks, operation at sub-threshold voltages for ultra-low power systems, etc. Furthermore, an appropriate mix of the theoretical foundations of reconfiguration, and practical considerations, including architectures, technologies and tools supporting soft/hard, partial/full, static/run-time reconfiguration is essential to fully reveal and exploit the possibilities created by this powerful computing paradigm. RAW 2010 aims to provide a venue to facilitate creative and productive interaction between all these disciplines.

 

Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished research in all areas of reconfigurable computing (foundations, algorithms, hardware architectures, devices, systems-on-chip (SoC), technologies, software tools, and applications). The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

Models & Architectures

·         Theoretical Interconnect
and Computation Models

·         RTR Models and Systems

·         RTR Hardware Architectures

·         Optical Interconnect Models

·         Simulation and Prototyping

·         Bounds and Complexity Issues

·         3D FPGA Architectures

·         Ultra-low power devices

·         Thermal models

·         Performance prediction models

·         Nano technology based devices and architectures

Algorithms & Applications

·         Algorithmic Techniques

·         Mapping Parallel Algorithms

·         Distributed Systems & Networks

·         Fault Tolerance Issues

·         Reliability Issues

·         Wireless and Mobile Systems

·         Automotive Applications

·         Infotainment & Multimedia

·         Biology Inspired Applications

·         Thermal management

·         Emergent Applications

Design, Technologies & Tools

·         Configurable Systems-on-Chip

·         Energy Efficiency Issues

·         Devices and Circuits

·         Reconfiguration Techniques

·         Bitstream relocation

·         High Level Design Methods

·         System Support

·         Embedded operating systems

·         Adaptive Runtime Systems

·         Organic Computing

·         CAD tools for 3D FPGAs

·         Languages and Compilation Techniques

 

 

Submission Guidelines:

Authors should submit and register their paper through our web-interface at http://edas.info/N8195.

 

All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be a complete manuscript (not to exceed 8 pages of single spaced text, including figures and tables) or, in special cases, may be a summary of relevant work. Submissions should be in pdf-format (preferred), or alternatively in Postscript (level 2) format. Authors should make sure that the submission can be viewed using ghostscript and will print on standard letter size paper (8.5" x 11").

IEEE CS Press will publish the IPDPS symposium and workshop abstracts as a printed volume. The complete symposium and workshop proceedings will also be published by IEEE CS Press as a CD-ROM disk.

 

Important Dates:

Manuscript due:                                                                 November 15, 2009

Notification of acceptance:                                              December 23, 2009

Camera-ready Papers Due:                                            February 1, 2010

 

Organization:

Workshop Co Chairs:                  Jürgen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT, Germany (becker@kit.edu)

Eli Bozorgzadeh, UC Irvine, USA  (eli@ics.uci.edu)

Program Co Chairs:                    Joćo M. P. Cardoso, University of Porto, Portugal (jmpc@acm.org)

Aravind Dasu, Utah State University, USA (dasu@engineering.usu.edu)

Steering Chair:                            Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA   (prasanna@usc.edu)

Publicity Chair (USA):                 Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA

                                                   (vaidy@ece.lsu.edu)

Publicity Chair (Europe, Asia):    Reiner Hartenstein, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany

                                                   (reiner@hartenstein.de)

 

 

Program Committee (not complete):


Ali Akogku, Univ. of Arizona, USA

Hideharu Amano, Keio University, Japan

Jason Anderson, University of Toronto, Canada

David Andrews, The University of Arkansas, USA

Peter Athanas, Virginia Tech, USA

Sergio Bampi, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Nader Bagherzadeh, University of California Irvine, USA

Juergen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Pascal Benoit, LIRMMM, France

Mladen Berekovic, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany

Neil Bergmann, University of Queensland, Australia

Koen Bertels, TUDelft, The Netherlands

Abbas Bigdeli, National ICT, Australia

Philippe Bonnot, Thales Research & Technology, France

Philip Brisk, University of California, Riverside, USA

Eli Bozorgzadeh, UC Irvine, USA

Thomas Buechner, IBM, Germany

Fabio Campi, ST Microelectronics, Italy

Joćo M. P. Cardoso, University of Porto, Portugal

Luigi Carro, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Ricardo Chaves, IST-TULisbon/INESC-ID, Portugal

Deming Chen, University of Illinois, USA

Peter Y. K. Cheung, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Derek Chiou, University of Texas, USA

Katherine Compton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Rene Cumplido, INAOE, Mexico

Aravind Dasu, Utah State University, USA

Oliver Diessel, University of New South Wales, Australia

Pedro Diniz, IST-TULisbon/INESC-ID, Portugal

Adam Donlin, Xilinx Inc., USA

Hatem El-Boghdadi, Cairo University, Egypt

Hossam Elgindy, University of New South Wales, Australia

Fabrizio Ferrandi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Joćo Canas Ferreira, University of Porto, Portugal

Alan George, University of Florida, USA

Christian Hochberger, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Steven Guccione, Cmpware, Inc., USA

Andreas Herkersdorf, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Thomas Hollstein, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Michael Huebner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Alex Jones, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Ryan Kastner, University of California, USA

Srinivas Katkoori, University of South Florida, USA

Andreas Koch, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Rainer Kress, Infineon Technologies, Germany

Rudy Lauwereins, IMEC, Belgium

Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, USA

Philip Leong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Rajit Manohar, Cornell University, USA

Liam Marnane, University College, Cork, Ireland

Eduardo Marques, University of Sćo Paulo (USP), Brazil

Alba Cristina de Melo, University of Brazil, Brazil

Seda Memik, Northwestern University, USA

Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany

Amar Mukherjee, University of Central Florida, USA

Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, USA

Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan

Jingzhao Ou, Xilinx Inc., The Netherlands

Ranjani Parthasarathi, CEG, Anna University, India

Cameron Patterson, Virginia Tech, USA

Gregory Peterson, The University of Tennessee, USA

Katarina Paulsson, Ericsson, Sweden

Andy Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Paula Pingree, NASA JPL, USA

Thilo Pionteck, University of Luebeck, Germany

Joachim Pistorius, Altera Corp., USA

Marco Platzner, University of Paderborn, Germany

Christian Plessl, University of Paderborn, Germany

Dan Poznanovic, Cray Inc., USA

Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA

Marco Santambrogio, MIT, USA

Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Sakir Sezer, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom

Asadollah Shahbahrami, TUDelft, The Netherlands

Kostas Siozios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Gerard Smit, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Thilo Streichert, Daimler AG, Germany

Dirk Stroobandt, Ghent University, Belgium

Prasanna Sundararajan, Xilinx Inc., USA

Juergen Teich, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Russell Tessier, University of Massachusetts, USA

Lionel Torres, LIRMM, Montpellier, France

Jerry Trahan, Louisiana State University, USA

Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Matthias Traub, Daimler AG, Germany

Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway

Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA

Carlos Valderrama, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

Sridhar Varadarajan, Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India

Milan Vasilko, Aeon Experts, United Kingdom

Brian Veale, IBM, USA

Ranga Vemuri, University of Cincinnati, USA

N. Vijaykrishnan, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Martin Vorbach, PACT Informationstechnologie, Germany

Klaus Waldschmidt, University of Frankfurt, Germany

Norbert When, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Stephan Wong, TUDelft, The Netherlands