S ophisticated consumer devices that support multimedia-personal digital assistants, network computers, and mobile communication devices-pose challenges for embedded-systems designers. The low-cost, consumer-oriented, fast time-to-market mentality that dominates embedded-system design today forces design teams to use hardwaresoftware codesign to cope with growing design complexities. New codesign methodologies and tools must support a key characteristic of next-generation embedded systems: the

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... apability to communicate over networks and adapt to different operating environments.