1. Introduction. - 1. 1. Synthesis of Integrated Circuits. - 1. 2 The System Architect's Workbench. - 1. 3 Contrasting Approaches to Synthesis. - 1. 4. Historical Note. - 1. 5. Overview of the Book. - 2. Design Representations and Synthesis. - 2. 1 The Model of Design Representation. - 2. 2. Behavioral Representations at the ALGORITHMIC Level. - 2. 3. Behavioral and Structural Representations at the REGISTER-TRANSFER Level. - 2. 4. Modeling ALGORITHMIC and RT Level Synthesis. - 2. 6 Summary. - 3. Transformations. - 3. 1. Vtbody Transformations. - 3. 2. SELECT Transformations. - 3. 3. Adding Processes To The Workbench. - 3. 4. Process Creation. - 3. 5. Pipestage Creation. - 3. 6. Structural Transformations. - 3. 7. Summary. - 4. Architectural Partitioning (APARTY). - 4. 1. Architectural Partitioning. - 4. 2. Previous Work: Clustering. - 4. 3. Multi-Stage Clustering. - 4. 4. Methodology. - 4. 5. Guiding Other Synthesis Tools. - 4. 6. A Partitioning Example. - 4. 7. Summary. - 5. Control Step Scheduling (CSTEP). - 5. 1. The Scheduling Problem. - 5. 2. Related Work. - 5. 3. The CSTEP Scheduling Approach. - 5. 4. Scheduling Examples. - 5. 5. Summary. - 6. Data Path Allocation (EMUCS). - 6. 1. Other Data Path Allocators. - 6. 2. EMUCS Overview. - 6. 3. Initialization. - 6. 4. Prebinding and Manual Binding. - 6. 5. Automatic Binding. - 6. 6. Post-Processing. - 6. 7. Finish Up. - 6. 9. Summary. - 7. Microprocessor Synthesis (SUGAR). - 7. 1. Organization of SUGAR. - 7. 2. Behavioral Transformations. - 7. 3. Execution Unit Organization Analysis. - 7. 4. Code Generation. - 7. 5. Code Selection. - 7. 6. Register and Bus Assignment. - 7. 7. Phase Structure of SUGAR. - 7. 8. Summary. - 8. Synthesis Results. - 8. 1. Fifth Order Digital Elliptic Wave Filter. - 8. 2. Kalman Filter. - 8. 3. BTL310. - 8. 4. MCS6502. - 8. 5. MC68000. - 8. 6. Summary. - 9. Correlating the Multilevel DesignRepresentation (CORAL). - 9. 1 Linking Design Representations. - 9. 2 Applications. - 9. 3 Summary. - 10. Observations and Future Work. - 10. 1. Are The Two Synthesis Paths Different?. - 10. 2. You Need More Than Synthesis. - 10. 3. Algorithmic Level Synthesis. - 10. 4. Logic Synthesis Module Generation and Physical Design. - 10. 5. Design Languages. - 10. 6. Summary. - References. Language: English