Foreword. Preface. 1. INTRODUCTION. 1.1 Organization of the Book Chapters. 2. EMBEDDED SOC APPLICATIONS. 2.1 Networking Domain. 2.2 Multimedia Domain. 2.3 Wireless Communications. 2.4 Application Trends. 2.5 First Order Application Partitioning. 3. CLASSIFICATION OF PLATFORM ELEMENTS. 3.1 Architecture Metrics. 3.2 Processing Elements. 3.3 On-Chip Communication. 3.4 Summary. 4. SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN PRINCIPLES. 4.1 The...