PUBLISHABLE PAPER RELATED TO FPGA!

Alexandre, at least you have become polite now.

The problem we all had with your original posting (besides the ALLCAPS) was that you seem to claim that you can write a valuable article about absolutely anything. All we need is to give you a topic. That's pretty arrogant coming from a 23-year old student. There are people in this newsgroup that have a professional experience much longer than your age (double that in my case).

You might have asked: What is an > Dear Miss Lazarut,

So let me get this straight, Alexandre: If I understand you correctly, you want to take somebody else's idea and publish it as your own?

Perhaps I misunderstood your intention, in which case you are putting the cart before the horse; the paper is the last thing to be done after you've put in the research or made the discovery to have something of merit to contribute to the community. The paper is just a vehicle to deliver the results of your work to the community at large so that others can build on your work.

There are plenty of areas ripe for research in FPGA related topics, but simply having a goal of publishing a paper without having something of merit first is not helpful. In fact, speaking as a conference paper reviewer, the last thing we need is more papers with nothing new to offer. We have to review every paper that is submitted, and there are already plenty of papers submitted that amount to little more than a regurgitation of somebody else's work with no significant new contribution. While those papers seldom get published, they still have to be reviewed and are a waste of the conference committee's time as well as yours.

Dear snipped-for-privacy@andraka.com

Let me clarify you > So let me get this straight, Alexandre: If I understand you correctly,

I'm trying to understand what help you are seeking. So far, it appears that you are asking for a paper topic, which is not the way to go about it. Find a research topic that interests you, do the work and then if something noteworthy falls out of it, then and only then consider writing a paper. Going into it with the primary goal being a published paper will generally not yield a paper worth reading.

There are topics in nearly every facet of FPGA design, tools and application that have room remaining for useful research. Asking a broad "help me pick a topic so I can write a paper" isn't likely to get you much advice: no one knows what your talents or interests are, and the subject 'something to do with FPGAs' is extremely broad.

After perusing this rather umm...well, let's just say after perusing this thread I would simply ask you (Ray that is) WHY?

KJ