WORKSHOP REPORT: FPGA '94: Report on FPGA '94 The Second ACM International Workshop on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Jonathan Rose, University of Toronto Sponsored by ACM SIGDA, with supportfrom Actel Corp., Altera Corp. and Xilinx, Inc. Berkeley, California, USA February 13-15, 1994 The p u r p o s e of the FPGA '94 w o r k s h o p w a s to bring together people working on the widely varying technologies needed to create and use Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Field-Programmable Systems and Field-Programmable Analog Arrays. These technologies include Computer-Aided Design, FPGA Architecture, Circuit Design and IC fabrication process design. The w o r k s h o p was attended b y over 140 people with roughly 60% from industry and 40% from academia. This mixture augurs well for both the research prospects and applicability of this field. Registration was cut off at the conference to prevent it from becoming too crowded. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are revolutionizing ASIC design b y p r o v i d i n g fast turnaround and negligible overhead cost. The challenge in FPGA research is to improve the speed and density of the devices, and find
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