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. Language: English