neral issues related with IP core integration: Stephen B. Furber, ARM System-on-a-Chip Architecture, 2nd ed. (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 2000). The following are a couple of very good books on the fundamentals of ASIC design for readers who are new to this field: Farzad Nekoogar, Timing Verification of Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1999). Sung-Mo Kang and Yusuf Leblebici, CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits Analysis & Design, 2nd ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998). Michael J.S. Smith, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1997). Jan M. Rabaey, Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1995). Neil H.E. Weste and Kamran Eshraghian, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design, 2nd ed. (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1994). A nice source of study on the issues of parallel design (co-design) of hardware and software can be found in the following book: Jorgen Staunstrup and Wayne Wolf, Hardware/Software Co-Design: Principles and Practice (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997). An industry association that promotes open standards for the structured and disciplined use of intellectual property inside SOC designs is VSI Alliance (www.vsi.org). Their site contains some inter- esting links. A good site with interesting information on IP components for reuse is www.design-reuse.com. The following companies distribute trade publications that often discuss this technology in depth. These publications also include tutorials in new approaches: EE Times (www.eet.com) EE Design (www.eedesign.com/isd/issue) Embedded (www.embedded.com) Communications Design (www.commsdesign.com/csd/issue) Integrated Communications Design (http://icd.pennnet.com/home.cfm) EDN Access (www.e-insite.net/ednmag/index.asp?layout=webzine) Several market research groups are also analyzing this market and consistently provide research material on multiple aspects of embedded processor technolo