The 20th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2013) will be held in Boston, USA in May 2013. RAW 2013 is associated with the 27th Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2013) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop is one of the major meetings for researchers to present ideas, results, and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in Reconfigurable Computing.

A reconfigurable computing environment is characterized by the ability of underlying hardware architectures or devices to rapidly alter (often on the fly) the functionalities of their components and the interconnection between them to suit the problem at hand. The area has a rich theoretical tradition and wide practical applicability. There are several commercially available reconfigurable platforms (FPGAs and coarse-grained devices) and many modern applications (including embedded systems and HPC) use reconfigurable subsystems. An appropriate mix of theoretical foundations and practical considerations, including algorithms architectures, applications, technologies and tools, is essential to fully exploit the possibilities offered by reconfigurable computing. The Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop aims to provide a forum for creative and productive interaction for researchers and practitioners in the area.

Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished research in all areas of reconfigurable systems, including architectures, algorithms, applications, software and cross-cutting areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


Architectures & Algorithms

·      Theoretical Interconnect  and Computation Models

·      Algorithmic Techniques and Mapping

·      Run-Time Reconfiguration Models and Architectures

·      Emerging Technologies (optical models, 3D Interconnects, devices)

·      Bounds and Complexity Issues

·      Analog Arrays

Reconfigurable Systems & Applications

·      Reconfigurable accelerators (HPC, Bioinformatics, Multicore environments)

·      Embedded systems and Domain-Specific solutions (Digital Media, Gaming, Automotive applications)

·      Distributed Systems & Networks

·      Wireless and Mobile Systems

·      Emerging applications (Organic Computing, Biology-Inspired Solutions)

·      Critical issues (Security, Energy efficiency, Fault-Tolerance)

Software & Tools

·      High-Level Design Methods (Hardware/Software co-design, Compilers)

·      System Support (Soft processor programming)

·      Runtime Support

·      Reconfiguration Techniques (reusable artifacts)

·      Simulations and Prototyping (performance analysis, verification tools)

 



Submission Guidelines:
All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be a complete manuscript (not to exceed 10 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. Click here to submit your paper.



Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal.

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:

Submission deadline

December 31, 2012

Decision notification

February 4, 2013

Camera-Ready papers due

February 28, 2013


                         

Organization:

Workshop Chairs:

Jürgen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany              

becker@kit.edu

 

 

Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA                               

vaidy@lsu.edu

 

Program Chair:

Peter Athanas, Virginia Tech., USA

athanas@vt.edu

 

Program Vice-Chairs:

 

 

 

 

Architectures and Algorithms:  Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

marco.santambrogio@polimi.it

 

Reconfigurable Systems & Applications:   René Cumplido, INAOE, México

rcumplido@inaoep.mx

 

Software & Tools:  Oliver Sander, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

sander@kit.edu

 

Steering Chair:

Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA

prasanna@usc.edu

 

Steering Committee:

Jürgen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany                       

 

 

Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA                        

 

 

Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA                

 

Publicity Co-Chairs:

 

 

Americas:

Ramachandran. Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA

 

 

René Cumplido, INAOE, México

 

Europe, Asia:

Reiner Hartenstein, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany

 

 

Pascal Benoit, LIRMM, Montpellier, France

                      

 


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