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...