About the Book

Hard/software Co-Design, Principles and Practice presents a number of issues of fundamental importance for the design of integrated hardware software products such as embedded, communication, and multimedia systems. This book is a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of hardware/software co-design. Co-design is still a new field but one which has substantially matured over the post few years. This book, written by leading international experts, covers all the major topics including

• Fundamentals issue in co-design;
• Hardware/software co-synthesis algorithms;
• Prototyping and emulation;
• Target architectures;
• Compiler techniques;
• Specification and verification;
• System-level specification.

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