The ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays is the premier conference for advances in all areas related to FPGAs. Please join us in Monterey, California in February to discuss the latest advances in FPGA architecture, CAD, applications, and technology.

While power reduction has been a recent dominant theme at the conference, the FPGA 2007 technical program adds two new and interesting emerging themes: process variation and high-performance computing. As well, a special evening panel debates the merits of high-level languages for FPGA design.

Architecture and CAD papers consider interconnect design with 3D transistor stacking, counting of switch patterns, datapath-oriented architecture synthesis, and power reduction by glitch elimination. Also included are advances in logic design of asynchronous LEs, BDD mapping for power, polarity selection to improve timing, and techmapping using SAT solvers.

Applications papers include security network intrusion detection systems, accelerating ECC cryptosystems, and an ISA for finite field arithmetic, as well as a speech recognition system on FPGAs.

Variation papers include CAD approaches for routing and physical synthesis, using configurations to tolerate within-die (WiD) variation, a study of parametric yield due to WiD, and hardware checkpointing to tolerate faults.

High-performance computing papers include a special invited session with speakers from Xilinx, XtremeData, and Microsoft Research on programming FPGAs for computational systems. As well, implementations of a high-performance HyperTransport core, the Pentium CPU design in half of an FPGA, and a PowerPC multiprocessor system on the BEE2 multi-FPGA board are described. Related software advances on multiprocessor system scheduling and microcode compression are also included.

We look forward to seeing you this February at FPGA in Monterey!

Mike Hutton, Program Chair	André DeHon, General Chair	Steve Wilton, Finance Chair	Guy Lemieux, Publicity Chair