Concurrent design, or co-design of hardware and software is extremely important for meeting design goals, such as high performance, that are the key to commercial competitiveness. Hardware/Software Co-Design covers many aspects of the subject, including methods and examples for designing: (1) general purpose and embedded computing systems based on instruction set processors; (2) telecommunication systems using general purpose digital signal processors as well as application specific instruction set processors; (3) embedded control systems and applications to automotive electronics. The book also surveys the areas of emulation and prototyping systems with field programmable gate array technologies, hardware/software synthesis and verification, and industrial design trends. Most contributions emphasize the design methodology, the requirements and state of the art of computer aided co-design tools, together with current design examples.

1. Hardware Software Co-Design: Application Domains and Design Technologies.- Instruction Set Processors.- 2. Hardware/Software Co-Design of Processors: Concepts and Examples.- 3. Performance Analysis of Embedded Systems.- Embedded Signal Processing Systems.- 4. Co-Design of DSP Systems.- 5. Concurrent Hw/Sw Design for Telecommunication Systems: A Product Development Perspective.- 6. Programmable Chips in Consumer Electronics and Telecommunications: Architecture and Design Technology.- 7. Code Generation and Optimization Techniques for Embedded Digital Signal Processors.- 8. Effective Heterogeneous Design and Co-simulation.- Embedded Control Systems.- 9. Embedded System Co-Design: Synthesis and Verification.- 10. Embedded System Co-Design: Towards Portability and Rapid Integration.- 11. TOSCA: A Pragmatic Approach to Co-Design Automation of Control-Dominated Systems.- 12. Automotive Electronics: A Major Application Field for Hardware/Software Co-Design.- Trends in Co-Design.- 13. Trends in Embedded System Technology: An Industrial Perspective.- 14. Emulation and Prototyping of Digital Systems.- 15. A Rewiew of Hardware Synthesis Techniques: Behavioral Synthesis.- 16. Software Systems: Languages, Models and Processes.- 17. The Lambda Approach to System Verification.- 18. Industrial HW/SW Co-Design.