Table of Contents

Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Hardware/Software Systems.- System Level Design Using the SystemC Modeling Platform.- Requirements for Static Task Scheduling in Real Time Embedded Systems.- Relocalization of Data Dependences in Partitioned Affine Indexed Algorithms.- High-level Condition Expression Transformations for Design Exploration.- Component-based System Design in Microkernel-based Systems.- Hardware/Software-Architecture and High Level Design Approach for Protocol Processing Acceleration.- A Fast and Retargetable Simulator for Application Specific Processor Architectures.- Hardware Supported Sorting: Design and Tradeoff Analysis.- Computer Aided Design for Microelectromechanical Systems.- An FEM Based Network Approach for the Simulation of Miniaturized Electromagnetic Devices.- High Performance Control System Processor.- High Level Structural Synthesis of Analog Subsystems — The Information to Electrical Domain Mapping.- Statistical Analysis of Analogue Structures.- A New Hierarchical Simulator for Highly Parallel Analog Processor Arrays.- Object Oriented System Simulation of Large Heterogeneous Communication Systems.- Object-oriented Modelling of Physical Systems with Modelica using Design Patterns.- Simulation of Numerically Sensitive Systems by Means of Automatic Differentiation.- DAE-Index Increase in Analogue Fault Simulation.- Parameter Optimization of Complex Simulation Models.- Quantitative Measures for Systematic Optimization, Validation, and Imperfection Compensation in the Holistic Modeling and Parsimonious Design of Application-Specific Vision and Cognition Systems.