The result is a valuable book which is a unique record of state-of-the-art in the research field programmable logic and reconfigurable computing. Contributions are grouped into twenty-four chapters and grouped into three main categories: architecture and application tools. Within these three areas the most powerful theme is represented by coarse-grained architecture, dynamically reconfigurable and multi-context architecture; tools for rough and reconfigurable architectures, network security and encryption applications. Field programmable logic and reconfigurable computing is the discipline of interesting research that span the traditional boundaries of electronic engineering and computer science.