This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Applied
Reconfigurable Computing ARC 2016 held in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in March 2016. The 20 full
papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They
are organized in topical headings named: video and image processing fault-tolerant systems
tools and architectures signal processing and multicore systems. In addition the book
contains 3 invited papers and 8 poster papers on funded RD running and completed projects.
