FPGA ´97: 1997 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays

This Special Section is devoted to recent research results on FPGA technology, with an emphasis on providing timely and in-depth presentations of the significant contributions reported in the 1997 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA´97). After a careful review process, nine papers were selected from a total of 35 submissions. The papers in this Special Section are organized into three groups: FPGA architectures and systems, FPGA synthesis and layout, and FPGA applications