Table of Contents

1: Introduction.- 1.1 Motivation for Hardware/Software Codesign.- 1.2 System Design Considerations.- 1.3 Research Scope and Overview.- 1.4 A Road Map of the Monograph.- 2: Hardware/Software Background.- 2.1 Embedded Systems.- 2.2 Models of Design Representation.- 2.3 The Virtual Machine Hierarchy.- 2.4 Performance Modeling.- 2.5 Hardware/Software Development.- 2.6 Summary.- 3: Hardware/Software Codesign Research.- 3.1 An Informal View of Codesign.- 3.2 Hardware/Software Trade-offs.- 3.3 Cross Fertilization.- 3.4 A Typical Codesign Process.- 3.5 Codesign Environments.- 3.6 Limitations of Existing Approaches.- 3.7 The ADEPT Modeling Environment.- 3.8 Summary.- 4: Codesign Concepts.- 4.1 Functions.- 4.2 Functional Decomposition.- 4.3 Virtual Machines.- 4.4 Hardware/Software Partitioning.- 4.5 Hardware/Software Partitions.- 4.6 Hardware/Software Alternatives.- 4.7 Hardware/Software Trade-offs.- 4.8 Codesign.- 4.9 An Example of Alternative Evaluation.- 4.10 Summary.- 5: A Methodology for Codesign.- 5.1 Amount of Unification.- 5.2 General Considerations and Basic Philosophies.- 5.3 A Framework for Codesign.- 5.4 Methodology Discussion.- 5.5 An Example.- 5.6 Summary.- 6: A Unified Representation for Hardware and Software.- 6.1 Benefits of a Unified Representation.- 6.2 Modeling Concepts.- 6.3 A Unified Representation.- 6.4 Related Work.- 6.5 Summary.- 7: An Abstract Hardware/Software Model.- 7.1 Requirements and Applications of the Model.- 7.2 Models of Hardware/Software Systems.- 7.3 An Abstract Hardware/Software Model.- 7.4 Model Implementation in ADEPT.- 7.5 An Example.- 7.6 Generality of the Model.- 7.7 Related Work.- 7.8 Summary.- 8: Performance Evaluation.- 8.1 Applications of the Abstract Hw/Sw Model.- 8.2 Examples of Performance Evaluation.- 8.3 Summary.- 9: Object-Oriented Techniques in Hardware Design.- 9.1 Motivations for Object-Oriented Techniques.- 9.2 Data Types.- 9.3 Modeling Hardware Components as Classes.- 9.4 Deriving Specialized Components.- 9.5 Data Decomposition.- 9.6 Processor Example.- 9.7 Type Genericity.- 9.8 Related Work.- 9.9 Summary.- 10: Concluding Remarks and Future Work.- 10.1 Monograph Summary.- 10.2 Future Work.- 10.3 Concluding Remarks.- References.

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