1 Introduction. - 1. 1 Design of Embedded Systems. - 1. 2 Synthesis Solutions. - 1. 3 Co-design and Co-synthesis. - 1. 4 Motivations for Hardware-Software Co-synthesis. - 1. 5 Applications. - 1. 6 The Opportunity of Co-synthesis. - 1. 7 Scope and Contributions. - 1. 8 Outline of the Book. - 2 Related Work. - 2. 1 CAD Systems for Hardware-Software Co-design. - 2. 2 CAD for Hardware-Software Co-synthesis. - 3 System Modeling. - 3. 1 System Specification using Procedural HDL. - 3. 2 System Model and its Representation. - 3. 3 The Flow Graph Model. - 3. 4 Interaction Between System and its Environment. - 3. 5 NDExecution Rate and Communication. - 3. 6 Constraints. - 3. 7 Summary. - 4 Constraint Analysis. - 4. 1 Scheduling of Operations. - 4. 2 Deterministic Analysis of Min/max Delay Constraints. - 4. 3 Deterministic Analysis of Execution Rate Constraints. - 4. 4 Constraints Across Graph Models. - 4. 5 ND Cycles in A Constraint Graph. - 4. 6 Probabilistic Analysis of Min/max and Rate Constraints. - 4. 7 Flow Graph as a Stochastic Process. - 4. 8 Summary. - 5 Software and Runtime Environment. - 5. 1 Processor Cost Model. - 5. 2 A Model for Software and Runtime System. - 5. 3 Estimation of Software Performance. - 5. 4 Estimation of Software Size. - 5. 5 Software Synthesis. - 5. 6 Step I: Generation of Program Threads. - 5. 7 Step II: Generation of Program Routines. - 5. 8 Step III: Code Synthesis. - 5. 9 Issues in Code Synthesis from Program Routines. - 5. 10 Summary. - 6 System Partitioning. - 6. 1 Partition Cost Model. - 6. 2 Local versus Global Properties. - 6. 3 Partitioning Feasibility. - 6. 4 Partitioning Based on Separation of Control and Execute Procedures. - 6. 5 Partitioning Based on Division of ND Operations. - 6. 6 Partition Related Transformations. - 6. 7 Summary. - 7 System Implementation. - 7. 1 Vulcan System Implementation. - 7. 2 Implementation of Target Architecture in Vulcan. - 7. 3 Co-simulation Environment. - 7. 4 Summary. - 8 Examples and Results. - 8. 1 Graphics Controller. - 8. 2 Network Controller. - 9 Summary Conclusions and Future Work. - 9. 1 Future Work. - References. Language: English