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On behalf of the ISSS 2001 Steering and Technical Program committees, I would like to welcome you to Montréal and to The International Symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS). ISSS is a major international forum presenting emerging techniques for the system-level design and synthesis of computing systems. Having begun as the International Workshop on High-Level Synthesis in the mid-80's, it attracts leading design automation professionals from around the world.ISSS 2001 is the 14th in this very successful series of symposia. This year, in addition to regular presentations, the Symposium includes invited talks by leading industrial and academic experts covering emerging network processor technologies, new paradigms designs and perspectives in System-on-a-Chip as well as two discussion panels. To encourage discussion among the Symposium participants, each technical session will consist of oral presentations followed by a poster session where the authors of presented papers will answer any further questions and provide additional details of their works. This year technical sessions cover the following topics.

• 1. System-Level Synthesis

• 2. Hardware-Software Co-Design

• 3. Programmable (Multi-)Processor-Based Design and Synthesis

• 4. System Design Experience and Methodologies

• 5. Embedded and Real-Time System Software

• 6. High-Level and Architectural Synthesis

• 7. Co-design of Distributed and multiprocessor architectures

• 8. Synthesis for Low Power, Testability and Verifiability in the above areas.