Organising the "22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)" in Oslo, 2012

The FPL scientific conference is an annually held event gathering 180-300 participants from all over the world to share their knowledge and late-breaking work on hardware design based on field programmable logic devices. They provide interfacing capabilit ies and processing speed far beyond a normal processor. Thus, they are used in many embedded systems where interfacing and processing speed are important. As the conference number indicates, the technology as well as the conference itself is well establis hed. By hosting the conference in Norway, we would like to draw attention to the related Norwegian research (including our RCN funded project "Context Switching Reconfigurable Hardware for Communication Systems") as well as the Norwegian industry much inv olved in such hardware technology. The conference is organized by, and will be located at, the University of Oslo. It will contain tutorials, workshops, invited talks by leading international researchers, oral and poster presentation of accepted papers ( reviewed by an international program committee). The expected audience are researchers from Europe, USA and Asia. Funding from the Research Council of Norway will be of major importance to keep the registration fee paid by each conference participants at a moderate level. Thus, more people would be able to attend and experience a comprehensive conference program.