Contributing Authors 7
Preface 9
Acknowledgments 11
Part A Reconfigurable Systems
Introduction to Reconfigurable Hardware 15
KONSTANTINOSMASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S. VOROS 15
Reconfigurable Hardware Exploitation in Wireless Multimedia
Communications 27
KONSTANTINOSMASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S. VOROS 27
Reconfigurable Hardware Technologies 43
KONSTANTINOSMASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S. VOROS 43
Part B System Level Design Methodology
Design Flow for Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip 87
KONSTANTINOSMASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S. VOROS 87
SystemC Based Approach 107
YANG QU AND KARK I TIENSYRJÄ 107

OCAPI-XL Based Approach 133
MIROSLAV 􀃽UPÁK AND LUC RIJNDERS 133
Part C Design Cases
MPEG-4 Video Decoder 155
MIROSLAV 􀃽UPÁK AND LUC RIJNDERS 155
Prototyping of a HIPERLAN/2 Reconfigurable System-on-Chip 179
KONSTANTINOSMASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S. VOROS 179
WCDMA Detector 209
YANG QU, MARKO PETTISSALO AND KARI TIENSYRJÄ 209