Emerging application domains: research challenges and opportunities for FPGAs

Communications infrastructure, data processing and industrial electronics are the cornerstone application areas for programmable logic today. But what are the application domains of tomorrow? What nascent application areas could explode the growth of programmable logic usage and expand the programmable market? In this workshop, we will hear speakers from industry and academia talk about the emerging application areas for FPGAs and the challenges and opportunities in these areas. We will consider how programmable hardware and the associated tools should be enhanced to become better-suited to tomorrow's applications. The overarching aim of the workshop is to seed ideas in the research community by giving an applications perspective of the fertile topics for future research on FPGA architecture, CAD and applications.