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FPGA 2003

Eleventh ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

Monterey Beach Hotel
Monterey, California
February 23-25, 2003

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Join us at the beach in Monterey, California for the eleventh ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA2003), the premier forum for novel work in all areas related to FPGA technology.  This year’s FPGA Symposium features twenty-four papers describing cutting-edge FPGA work.  Authors present novel work on FPGA architecture from commercial vendors, research labs and universities.  Innovative software research highlights high-speed and high-quality FPGA design.   Finally, FPGA 2003 showcases some very impressive applications of FPGAs.

 

FPGA2003 provides a relaxed environment for informal information exchange, networking and stimulating discussions with the leaders in FPGA research and development from academia and industry. Paper sessions are separated by ample time to peruse the poster presentations and discuss the latest-breaking FPGA news.  This year, FPGA 2003 will be at the Monterey Beach Hotel, a stunning setting guaranteed to facilitate informal discussion as well as formal presentations.

 

The FPGA 2003 dinner banquet will be followed by a panel discussion.  This is an opportunity not to be missed.

 

If you are interested in FPGA technology and developments, you won’t want to miss this event.

 

 

Organization:

 

            General Chair: Steve Trimberger, Xilinx

            Program Chair: Russ Tessier, U. Mass.-Amherst

            Finance Chair: Martine Schlag, UCSC

            Publicity Chair:  Steve Wilton, U. British Columbia

            Panel Chair:  Herman Schmit, CMU

           

Program Committee:

 

Ray Andraka, Andraka Consulting

Michael Butts, Cadence

Vaughn Betz, Altera

Jason Cong, UCLA

Andre DeHon, Caltech

Eugene Ding, Mentor Graphics

Scott Hauck, U. Washington

Rajeev Jayaraman, Xilinx

Sinan Kaptanoglu, Altera

Tom Kean, Algotronix

Arun Kundu, Actel

Miriam Leeser, Northeastern U.

Wayne Luk, Imperial College

Margaret Marek-Sadowska, UCSB

Majid Sarrafzadeh, UCLA

Martine Schlag, UCSC

Herman Schmit, CMU

Russ Tessier, U. Mass.–Amherst

Steve Trimberger, Xilinx

Qiang Wang, Xilinx

Steve Wilton, U. British Columbia

Martin Wong, UIUC

Zeljko Zilic, McGill U.

 

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Sunday, February 23, 2003

6:00PM           

Registration

7:00PM

Welcoming Reception

 

 

Monday, February 24, 2003

 

7:30 AM

Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:20 AM

Opening Remarks, Steve Trimberger, Russ Tessier

 

Session 1. Novel Architectures

Chair: Michael Butts, Cadence

8:30 AM

Architectures and Algorithms for Synthesizable Embedded Programmable Logic Cores, Noha Kafafi, Kimberly Bozman, and Steven J.E. Wilton,  University of British Columbia

8:50 AM

The Stratix Routing and Logic Architecture, David Lewis, Vaughn Betz, David Jefferson, Andy Lee, Chris Lane, Paul Leventis, Sandy Marquardt, Cameron McClintock, Bruce Pedersen, Giles Powell, Srinivas Reddy, Chris Wysocki, Richard Cliff, and Jonathan Rose,  Altera Corporation

9:10 AM

A Pipelined Configurable Gate Array for Embedded Processors, Andrea Lodi, Mario Toma, Fabio Campi, Andrea Cappelli, Roberto Canegallo, and Roberto Guerrieri, University of Bologna and STMicroelectronics

9:30 AM

Coffee Break and Poster Presentations

 

Session 2. Placement

Chair: Vaughn Betz, Altera Corporation

 

10:30 AM           

Hardware-Assisted Simulated Annealing with Application for Fast FPGA Placement, Michael G. Wrighton and André DeHon, California Institute of Technology

10:50 AM

Parallel Placement for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, Pak K. Chan and Martine D.F. Schlag,  University of California, Santa Cruz

11:10 AM           

I/O Placement for FPGAs with Multiple I/O Standards, Wai-Kei Mak, University of South Florida

11:30 AM

Poster Presentations

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

Session 3. Routing

Chair: Jason Cong, UCLA

1:30 PM

Wire Type Assignment for FPGA Routing, Seokjin Lee, Hua Xiang, D. F. Wong, Richard Y. Sun,  University of Texas at Austin, UIUC, and Xilinx Corporation

1:50 PM

PipeRoute: A Pipelining-Aware Router for FPGAs, Akshay Sharma, Carl Ebeling, and Scott Hauck,  University of Washington

2:10 PM

Stochastic, Spatial Routing for Hypergraphs, Trees, and Meshes, Randy Huang, John Wawrzynek, and André DeHon, University of California, Berkeley and California Institute of Technology

2:30 PM

Poster Presentations

 

Session 4.  Prototyping, Verification, and Test

Chair: Majid Sarrafzadeh, UCLA

3:30 PM

Implementation of BEE: A Real-Time Large-scale Hardware Emulation Engine, Chen Chang, Kimmo Kuusilinna, Brian Richards, and Robert W. Brodersen, University of California, Berkeley and Tampere University of Technology

3:50 PM

High-Level Modeling and FPGA Prototyping of Microprocessors, Joydeep Ray and James C. Hoe, Carnegie Mellon University

4:10 PM

Reducing Pin and Area Overhead in Fault-Tolerant FPGA-based Designs, Fernanda Gusmão de Lima, Luigi Carro, and Ricardo Reis, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

4:30 PM

Poster Presentations

 

 

6:00 PM

Dinner

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Panel  - Attack of the Killer Gate Arrays

 

Moderator: Michael Butts, Cadence

Panelists: Herman Schmit, Carnegie Mellon University

                   Steve Trimberger, Xilinx

                   Jonathan Rose, Altera

                   Ronnie Vasishta, LSI Logic

                  (others panelists TBD)

 

The ever-growing capacity and speed of FPGAs have brought them into the heart of the silicon mainstream.  Major ASIC vendors have responded by reviving masterslice gate arrays, standard prefab die with design-specific metal layers.  They claim lower NREs, quicker delivery and easier design than cell-based ASICs, and lower unit cost, better speed, capacity and power than FPGAs.

Do these gate arrays spell doom for FPGA vendors’ dreams of displacing the ASIC as a mainstream silicon platform?  Will the FPGA's high volume, superior flexibility and time-to-market prevail?  Or will they co-exist in different classes of application?  Why?  When?

 

We have assembled a panel of experts from FPGA and ASIC vendors and academia to duke it out.  Each panelist will give a short presentation putting forward their point of view, then we'll have interactive debate among the panelists and attendees.

 

 

Tuesday, February 25, 2003

7:30 AM

Breakfast

 

Session 5. Logic Synthesis and Mapping

Chair: Steve Wilton, University of British Columbia

8:30 AM

Placement-driven Technology Mapping for LUT-based FPGAs, Jason Cong, Ashok Jaganathan, and Joey Y. Lin,  UCLA

8:50 AM

Verifying the Correctness of FPGA Logic Synthesis Algorithms, Boris Ratchev, Mike Hutton, Gregg Baeckler, and Babette van Antwerpen,  Altera Corporation

9:10 AM

Using Logic Duplication to Improve Performance in FPGAs, Karl Schabas and Stephen D. Brown,  University of Toronto

9:30 AM

Coffee Break and Poster Presentations

 

Session 6.  Device-Level Design

Chair: Guy Lemieux, University of British Columbia

10:30 AM

A Scalable 2V, 20 GHz FPGA using SiGe HBT BiCMOS Technology, J.R. Guo, C. You, K. Zhou, M. Chu, B.S. Goda, R.P. Kraft, and J.F. McDonald, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

10:50 AM

Design of FPGA Interconnect for Multilevel Metalization, Raphael Rubin and André DeHon, California Institute of Technology

11:10 AM

Automatic Transistor and Physical Design of FPGA Tiles from an Architectural Specification, Ketan Padalia, Ryan Fung, Mark Bourgeault, Aaron Egier, and Jonathan Rose, University of Toronto

 

Poster Presentations

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

Session 7.  Architecture Analysis and Evaluation

Chair: Sinan Kaptanoglu, Altera Corporation

1:30 PM

Architecture Evaluation for Power-Efficient FPGAs, Fei Li, Deming Chen, Lei He, and Jason Cong, UCLA

1:50 PM

Post-Placement C-slow Retiming for the Xilinx Virtex FPGA, Nicholas Weaver, Yury Markovskiy, Yatish Patel, and John Wawrzynek, University of California, Berkeley

2:10 PM

An FPGA Architecture with Enhanced Datapath Functionality, Katarzyna Leijten-Nowak and Jef L. van Meerbergen,  Eindhoven University of Technology and Philips Research Labs

2:30 PM

Coffee Break and Poster Presentations

 

Session 8.  Innovative Applications

Chair: Ray Andraka, Andraka Consulting Group

3:30 PM

A Fully Pipelined Memoryless 17.8 Gbps AES-128 Encryptor, Kimmo U. Järvinen, Matti T. Tommiska and Jorma O. Skyttä,  Helsinki University of Technology

3:50 PM

Methodology to Implement Block Ciphers in Reconfigurable Hardware and its Application to Fast and Compact AES RIJNDAEL, Francois-Xavier Standaert, Gael Rouvroy, Jean-Jacques Quisquater, and Jean-Didier Legat,  Université Catholique de Louvain

4:10 PM

Energy-Efficient Signal Processing Using FPGAs, Seonil Choi, Ronald Scrofano, Viktor K. Prasanna, and Ju-wook Jang, University of Southern California

 

4:30 PM

Closing Remarks,  Steve Trimberger, Russ Tessier