The Breakout group "Reclaim the Hardware Design Space!" on the 3rd European Lisp Workshop is about creating hardware that is suited to dynamic programming languages in general, and LISP in particular. We will be investigating current hardware technologies to find out what they have to offer for systems that are dynamic from the ground up.

The breakout group is meant to provide a meeting point for researchers and practitioners working on hardware implementation techniques for dynamic languages. To participate, you should know something about the implementation of dynamic languages, about hardware, or both. You are not required to actually have created a LISP machine yourself, but you should be aware of some of the associated issues in order to take part in the discussion.

Some of the topics of interest are:

• Implementation of LISP-friendly CPUs in hardware
• Hardware assisted garbage collection
• Self-Synthesis and Hardware/Software Co-Design
• LISP based ASLs for hardware description and synthesis
• Techniques for CPU implementation on FPGAs
• Reengineering ancient CPUs in software or hardware

In the breakout group, time will be provided for researchers to demonstrate their achivements and position. If you have something to present, please let us know and we will provide you with presentation time. You may also publish information on this web site in order to let participants get some idea of what you are working on in advance. The number of workshop participants is limited! If you want to attend, it is mandatory that you first contact Pascal Costanza before registering through the ECOOP06 web site.

We hope that the breakout group will help in advancing dynamic hardware and provide for a place for researchers and practitioners to work together.