As we embrace the world of personal, portable, and perplexingly complex digital systems, it has befallen upon the bewildered designer to take advantage of the available transistors to produce a system which is small, fast, cheap and correct, yet possesses increased functionality.

"As we embrace the world of personal, portable, and perplexingly complex digital systems, it has befallen upon the bewildered designer to take advantage of the available transistors to produce a system which is small, fast, cheap and correct, yet possesses increased functionality.

Application Specific Embedded Processors.- Application-Specific Embedded Processors.- Low-Power Design with NISC Technology.- Synthesis of Instruction Sets for High-Performance and Energy-Efficient ASIP.- A Framework for Extensible Processor Based MPSoC Design.- Design and Run Time Code Compression for Embedded Systems.- Embedded Memories.- Power Optimisation Strategies Targeting the Memory Subsystem.- Layer Assignment Techniques for Low Energy in Multi-Layered Memory Organizations.- Memory Bank Locality and Its Usage in Reducing Energy Consumption.- Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling.- Fundamentals of Power-Aware Scheduling.- Static DVFS Scheduling.- Dynamic DVFS Scheduling.- Voltage Selection for Time-Constrained Multiprocessor Systems.- Compiler Techniques.- Compilation Techniques for Power, Energy, and Thermal Management.- Compiler-Directed Dynamic CPU Frequency and Voltage Scaling.- Link Idle Period Exploitation for Network Power Management.- Remote Task Mapping.- Multi-Processors.- A Power and Energy Perspective on MultiProcessors.- System-Level Design of Network-on-Chip Architectures.- Power-Performance Modeling and Design for Heterogeneous Multiprocessors.- Reconfigurable Computing.- Basics of Reconfigurable Computing.- Dynamic Reconfiguration.- Applications, Design Tools and Low Power Issues in FPGA Reconfiguration.