Contributing Authors Preface Acknowledgments Part A-Reconfigurable Systems IntrOduction to Reconflgurable Hardware KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S.VOROS RecOnfigurable Hardware Exploitation in Wireless Multimedia Communications KONSTANTINOS MAS SELOS AND NIKOLAOS S.VOROS RecOnflgurable Hardware TechnOlOgies KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S.VOROS Part B-System LeVel Design Methodology Design Flow fOr Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip KONSTANTINOS MAS S ELOS AND NIKOLAOS S.VOROS SystemC B ased Approach YANG Qu AND KLARI TIENsYRJA OCAPI-XL Based ApprOach MIRosLAv CuPAK AND Luc RIJNDERS Parc C-Design Cases MPEG-4 Video 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 KARI TIENsYRJA