It is essential to find new ways of enabling experts in different disciplines to collaborate more
efficient in the development of ever more complex systems, under increasing market …

Most electronic systems, whether self contained or embedded, have a predominant digital
component consisting of a hardware platform which executes software application …

This paper addresses the design of reactive real-time embedded systems. Such systems are
often heterogeneous in implementation technologies and design styles, for example by …

This book provides broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire EDA flow. EDA/VLSI
practitioners and researchers in need of fluency in an" adjacent" field will find this an …

For the near future, the recent predictions and roadmaps of silicon semiconductor
technology all agree that the number of transistors on a chip will keep growing exponentially …

The authors present a software-oriented approach to hardware-software partitioning which
avoids restrictions on the software semantics as well as an iterative partitioning process …

One of the key problems in hardware/software codesign is hardware/software partitioning.
This paper describes a new approach to hardware/software partitioning using integer …

Embedded system designers are constantly looking for new tools and techniques to help
satisfy the exploding demand for consumer information appliances and specialized …

Co-Synthesis of Hardware and Software for Digital Embedded Systems, with a Foreword
written by Giovanni De Micheli, presents techniques that are useful in building complex …

This paper describes the LYCOS system, an experimental co-synthesis environment. We
present the motivation and philosophy of LYCOS and after an overview of the entire system …