Foreword. Preface. 1. INTRODUCTION. 1.1 Challenge: From Board to SoC. 1.2 Degrees of SoC Customization. 1.3 Organization of this Book. 2. SOC DESIGN METHODOLOGIES. 2.1 Traditional HW/SW Co-Design. 2.2 System Level Design. 2.3 Current Research on SoC Design Methodologies. 2.4 Contribution of this Work. 3. COMMUNICATION MODELING. 3.1 Transaction Level Modeling. 3.2 Generic Communication Modeling. 3.3 Communication Customization. 3.4 The BusCompiler Tool. 4. PROCESSOR MODELING. 4.1 Generic Processor Modeling. 4.2 Processor Customization Techniques. 4.3 LISA. 5. PROCESSOR SYSTEM INTEGRATION. 5.1 Simulator Structure. 5.2 Adaptors: Bridging Abstraction Gaps. 5.3 Commercial SoC Simulation Environments. 6. SUCCESSIVE TOP-DOWN REFINEMENT FLOW. 6.1 Phase 1: Standalone. 6.2 Phase 2: IA ASIP - AVF Communication Models. 6.3 Phase 3: IA ASIP - CA TLM Bus. 6.4 Phase 4: CA ASIP - CA TLM Bus. 6.5 Phase 5: BCA ASIP - CA TLM Bus. 6.6 Phase 6: RTL ASIP - CA TLM Bus. 6.7 Phase 7: RTL ASIP - RTL Bus. 7. AUTOMATIC RETARGETABILITY. 7.1 MP-SoC Simulator Generation Chain. 7.2 Structure of the Generated Simulator. 7.3 Bus Interface Specification. 8. DEBUGGING AND PROFILING. 8.1 Multiprocessor Debugger. 8.2 TLM Bus Traffic Visualization. 8.3 Bus Interface Analysis. 9. CASE STUDY. 9.1 Multi Processor JPEG Decoding Platform. 9.2 Phase 2: IA+AVF Platform. 9.3 Phase 3: IA + BusCompiler Platform. 9.4 Phase 4: CA + BusCompiler Platform. 9.5 Phase 5: BCA + BusCompiler Platform. 10. SUMMARY. Appendices. A. Businterface Definition Files. A.1 Generic AMBA 2.0 Protocol. A.2 Derived AMBA 2.0 Protocols. A.3 AMBA 2.0 Bus Interface Specification. B. Extended CoWare Tool Flow. List of Figures. References. Index.