chapter 1 Programmable Digital Signal Processors -- chapter 2 VLIW Processor Architectures and Algorithm Mappings for DSP Applications -- chapter 3 Multimedia Instructions in Microprocessors for Native Signal Processing -- chapter 4 Recon.gurable Computing and Digital Signal Processing -- chapter 5 Parallel Architectures for Programmable Video Signal Processing -- chapter 6 Oasis -- chapter 7 Digital Signal Processing on MMX Technology -- chapter 8 Hardware/Software Cosynthesis of DSP Systems -- chapter 9 Data Transfer and Storage Architecture Issues and Exploration in Multimedia Processors.