System Level Synthesis : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on System Level Synthesis for Electronic Design, Held in Il Ciocco, Italy, 11-12 August 1998

__System-Level Synthesis__ deals with the concurrent design of electronic applications, including both hardware and software. The issue has become the bottleneck in the design of electronic systems, including both hardware and software, in several major industrial fields, including telecommunications, automotive and aerospace engineering. The major difficulty with the subject is that it demands contributions from several research fields, including system specification, system architecture, hardware design, and software design. Most existing book cover well only a few aspects of system-level synthesis. The present volume presents a comprehensive discussion of all the aspects of system-level synthesis. Each topic is covered by a contribution written by an international authority on the subject. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Embedded System Architectures....Pages 1-43 Models of Computation for Embedded System Design....Pages 45-102 Multilanguage Specification for System Design....Pages 103-136 High-Level Specification Languages for Embedded System Design....Pages 137-174 Towards a New System Level Design Language -- SLDL....Pages 175-187 Hardware/Software Co-Synthesis Algorithms....Pages 189-217 Rapid Prototyping, Emulation and Hardware-Software Co-Debugging....Pages 219-262 Dynamic Power Management of Electronic Systems....Pages 263-292 Compiler Generation Techniques for Embedded Processors and their Application to HW/SW Codesign....Pages 293-320 IP-Centric Methodology and Design with the SpecC Language....Pages 321-358 The Javatime Approach to Mixed Hardware-Software System Design....Pages 359-396 Models and Methods for HW/SW Intellectual Property Interfacing....Pages 397-432 Back Matter....Pages 433-435

System-Level Synthesis deals with the concurrent design of electronic applications, including both hardware and software. The issue has become the bottleneck in the design of electronic systems, including both hardware and software, in several major industrial fields, including telecommunications, automotive and aerospace engineering. The major difficulty with the subject is that it demands contributions from several research fields, including system specification, system architecture, hardware design, and software design. Most existing book cover well only a few aspects of system-level synthesis. The present volume presents a comprehensive discussion of all the aspects of system-level synthesis. Each topic is covered by a contribution written by an international authority on the subject.