It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 2018 International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig 2018) that will be held during December 3-5, 2018 in Cancun, Mexico.

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become important infrastructure throughout IoT devices, networks, embedded and real time systems, and most recently data centers. FPGAs offer the advantage of being customized in the field to match application specific requirements or host a custom heterogeneous multiprocessor system on programmable chip. In addition to their historical role in distributed, embedded, real time, and telecommunications systems, FPGAs are now an integral piece of infrastructure to provide energy efficient solutions for big data analytics and machine learning applications.

The ReConFig conference is now in its 13th year and has become an international forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss and disseminate new engineering and scientific advancements in all areas pertaining to reconfigurable computing. This year ReConFig will build on its prior success and seek new timely unpublished research in the use of reconfigurable computing and FPGAs devices in research, education, and applications. Topics of interest range from, but are not limited to, physical reconfigurable hardware components and devices, performance and designer productivity techniques and tools, and new evolving use cases. This year’s ReConFig specifically encourages new research on integrating reconfigurable computing components within standard software productivity ecosystems for cloud and data center environments, and big data analytics and machine learning applications.