Recent Applications of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 1179
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital systems; control systems; reconfigurable control systems; embedded systems; systems-on-a-chip, programmable logic controllers; Industry 4.0
2. Electrical and Computers Engineering Department, University of the Peloponnese, 22131 Patras, Greece
Interests: efficient implementations of cryptographic; 5G security; IoT security; DSP and ML primitives
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Dear Colleagues,
There has been an emerging interest in field-programmable logic device technology (such as FPGAs) in recent years. The flexibility and logic capacity offered by modern FPGA devices make them a convenient platform for implementing various kinds of functionalities and a core element in various systems. Fast prototyping and a short “production” time are also factors that are often crucial in today's highly competitive economic environment.
Specific features characteristic of FPGAs, e.g., their specific architectural elements, dynamic partial reconfiguration, possibility of integrating general purpose logic resources with MCU/CPU cores, open new possibilities but also constitute a challenge both for application engineers and for scientists searching for new synthesis algorithms and design methodologies.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present recent research results, trends, developments, and achievements related to FPGAs. The research published may cover (but is not limited to) the following areas:
- Synthesis and implementation methodsexploiting device-specific architecture elements, hard macros, and IP cores.
- Design methodologies.
- Verification and validation techniques, including formal verification methods.
- Optimization techniques (e.g., power, area, delay).
- Performance evaluation.
- The implementation of intelligent algorithms directly in hardware.
- AI/ML on FPGAs.
- Hardware architectures for 5G/6G networks.
- Reconfigurable architectures, including reconfigurable control systems.
- Dependable systems (cryptology, security algorithms, security aspects).
- Non-trivial applications, including the following:
- Real-time systems, real-time sensing, and computing.
- Systems-on-a-chip (SoC).
- Industrial control: programmable logic controllers, dedicated CPUs, flexible and expandable I/O modules, dedicated network controllers.
- Digital signal processing.
- Internet of things.
Both original research and review papers are welcome. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions!
Dr. Miroslaw Chmiel
Prof. Dr. Paris Kitsos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- field-programmable gate arrays
- digital systems
- control systems
- reconfigurable control systems
- embedded systems
- systems-on-a-chip, logic synthesis
- hardware-implemented algorithms
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