In 2011, ReconFig continued to provide a leading edge forum for researchers and engineers from across the world to present their latest research and to discuss future research and applications. The conference (http://www.reconfig.org/) promotes the use of reconfigurable computing and FPGA technology for research, education, and applications, covering from hardware architectures and devices to custom computers and high-performance systems. ReconFig 2011 covered a broad spectrum of topics from hardware architectures and devices to custom computers and high-performance systems. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Models, methods, tools, and architectures for reconfigurable computing
• Compilation, simulation, debugging, synthesis, verification, and test of reconfigurable systems
• Field programmable gate arrays and other reconfigurable technologies
• Evolvable hardware and dynamic reconfiguration
• Algorithms implemented on reconfigurable hardware
• Reconfigurable computing education
• Reconfigurable computing applications
• High-performance reconfigurable computing
• Reconfigurable computing for security and cryptography
• Reconfigurable computing for DSP and communications
• Multiprocessor systems and networks on chip
• Reconfiguration techniques
• Productivity environments and high-level languages
• Controversy track: FPGAs versus GPUs
• FPGA applications in power electronics and drives

From the total of 144 papers that were submitted for review to ReconFig 2011, 51 were accepted for oral presentation at the conference. For this special issue, authors of the top 20 papers will be invited to submit an extended version. The criteria for paper selection will be based on papers that stand out in terms of quality of the research and the presentation of the results, originality, and potential scientific impact ensuring a diverse range of topics of representative of important and growing research areas of reconfigurable computing and FPGAs.

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijrc/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: