chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- chapter 2 APPLICATION-SPECIFIC MULTIPROCESSORS -- chapter 3 BACKGROUND TERMINOLOGY AND NOTATION -- chapter 4 DSP-ORIENTED DATAFLOW MODELS OF COMPUTATION -- chapter 5 MULTIPROCESSOR SCHEDULING MODELS -- chapter 6 IPC-CONSCIOUS SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS -- chapter 7 THE ORDERED-TRANSACTIONS STRATEGY -- chapter 8 ANALYSIS OF THE ORDERED-TRANSACTIONS STRATEGY -- chapter 9 EXTENDING THE OMA ARCHITECTURE -- chapter 10 SYNCHRONIZATION IN SELF-TIMED SYSTEMS -- chapter 11 RESYNCHRONIZATION -- chapter 12 LATENCY-CONSTRAINED RESYNCHRONIZATION -- chapter 13 INTEGRATED SYNCHRONIZATION OPTIMIZATION -- chapter 14 FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS.