Contributing Authors Preface Acknowledgments Part A-Reconfigurable Systems Introduction to Reconfigurable Hardware KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S.VOROS Reconfigurable Hardware Exploitaion in Wireless Multimedia Communications KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S.VOROS Reconfigurable Hardware Technologies KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S.VOROS Part B-System Level Design Methodology Design Flow for Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S.VOROS SystemC Based Approach YANG QU AND KARI TIENSYRJA OCAPI-XL Based Approach MIROSLAV CUPAK AND LUC RIJNDERS Part C-Design Cases MPEG-4 Videso Decoder MIROSLAV CUPAK AND LUC RIJNDERS Prototyping of a HIPERLAN/2 Reconfigurable System-on-Chip KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S VOROS WCDMA Detector YANG QU MARKO PETTISSALO AND KAPI TIENSYRJA