• Tools and design techniques for field-programmable technology

Placement, routing, synthesis, verification, debugging, run-time support, technology mapping, partitioning, parallelization, timing optimization, design and run-time environments, languages and modelling techniques, provably-correct development, intellectual property core-based design, domain-specific development, hardware/software co-design.

• Architectures for field-programmable technology

Field-programmable gate arrays, complex programmable logic devices, coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays, interconnect, analogue arrays, arithmetic arrays, memory architectures, interface technologies, low-power techniques, adaptive devices, reconfigurable computing systems, high-performance reconfigurable systems, evolvable hardware and adaptive computing, fault tolerance and avoidance.

• Device technology for field-programmable technology

Programmable memories such as non-volatile, dynamic and static memory cells and arrays, interconnect devices, circuits and switches, and emerging VLSI device technologies.

• Applications of field-programmable technology

Biomedical and scientific computation accelerators, network processors, real-time systems, rapid prototyping, hardware emulation, digital signal processing, interactive multimedia, machine vision, computer graphics, cryptography, robotics, manufacturing systems, embedded applications, evolvable and biologically-inspired hardware, financial application, big data management, aerospace and extreme environment applications.

• Education for field-programmable technology

Courses, teaching and training experience, experiment equipment, design and applications.