1. The Rise of Reconfigurable Systems Nick Tredennick Gilder Technology Report The 2003 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA’03) June 23, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada

2. This year’s transistors are just twice the size of a virus

3. Performance rises with Moore’s law and the demand spreads with time. Soon performance is good enough for most users

4. Fixed-cost amortization now dominates the cost of processing a wafer

5. Normalized by transistor cost and the value transistor

6. Adoption rates are falling for new semiconductor processes

7. Programmable Metallization Cell memory (PMCm)

8. PLD and ASIC cost cross-over point

9. PLD and ASIC cost cross-over points (dots) with time