Field Programmable Logic and Application 14th International Conference , FPL 2004, Leuven, Belgium, August 30-September 1, 2004, Proceedings

This book contains the papers presented at the 14th International Conference onFieldProgrammableLogicandApplications(FPL)heldduringAugust30th- September 1st 2004. The conference was hosted by the Interuniversity Micro- Electronics Center (IMEC) in Leuven, Belgium. The FPL series of conferences was founded in 1991 at Oxford University (UK), and has been held annually since: in Oxford (3 times), Vienna, Prague, Darmstadt, London, Tallinn, Glasgow, Villach, Belfast, Montpellier and Lisbon. It is the largest and oldest conference in recon?gurable computing and brings together academic researchers, industry experts, users and newcomers in an - formal, welcomingatmospherethatencouragesproductiveexchangeofideasand knowledge between the delegates. The fast and exciting advances in?eld programmable logic are increasing steadily with more and more application potential and need. New ground has been broken in architectures, design techniques, (partial) run-time recon?gu- tion and applications of?eld programmable devices in several di?erent areas. Many of these recent innovations are reported in this volume. The size of the FPL conferences has grown signi?cantly over the years. FPL in 2003 saw 216 papers submitted. The interest and support for FPL in the programmable logic community continued this year with 285 scienti?c papers submitted, demonstrating a 32% increase when compared to the year before. The technical program was assembled from 78 selected regular papers, 45 - ditional short papers and 29 posters, resulting in this volume of proceedings. The program also included three invited plenary keynote presentations from Xilinx, GilderTechnologyReportandAltera, andthreeembeddedtutorialsfrom Xilinx, the Universit· at Karlsruhe (TH) and the University of Oslo.