This book is the proceedings volume of the 12th International Conference on Field-ProgrammableLogicandApplications(FPL)heldonSeptember2 4,2002. The conference was hosted by the Laboratoired Informatique, de Robotique et de Micro electronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), France. The FPL conference covered areas like recon?gurable logic and recon?gurable computing, as well as their application in various areas like DSP, communication and cryptography. Its subtitle Recon?gurable Computing Is Going Mainstream emphasizes the extensive role recon?gurablelogic has started to play. The annual FPL series...