Hardware/Software Co-Design

This text presents a number of issues of fundamental importance for the design of integrated hardware software products such as embedded, communication, and multimedia systems. It is a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of hardware/software co-design. Co-design is still a new field in the late 1990s but one which has substantially matured over the past few years. This book, written by international experts, covers all the major topics including: fundamental issues in co-design; hardware/software co-synthesis algorithms; prototyping and emulation; target architectures; compiler techniques; specification and verification; and system-level specification. Special chapters describe in detail several co-design systems including Cosyma, LYCOS, and Cosmos. The work contains sufficient material for use by teachers and students in an advanced course of hardware/software co-design. It also contains extensive explanation of the fundamental concepts of the subject and the necessary background to bring practitioners up-to-date on this increasingly important topic.