Reconfigurable computing technologies offer the promise of substantial performance gains over traditional architectures via the customizing, even at runtime, the topology of the underlying architecture to match the specific needs of a given application.

Contemporary configurable architectures allow for the definition of architectures with functional and storage units that match in function, bit-width and control structures the specific needs of a given computation. The flexibility enabled by reconfiguration is also seen as a basic technique for overcoming transient failures in emerging device structures. ARC aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners of reconfigurable computing with an emphasis on practical applications of this promising technology.

This year's workshopwill have a series of international invited speakers from industry and academia who will express their view on the future of reconfigurable technology (please visit the symposium web site for an update list of the confirmed keynote presentations).