The first version of the Chinook co-synthesis tool was operational in November 1993. ``<A HREF="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/lis/www/chinook/roe.html">Version <I>roe</I></A>'' was shown at DAC (Design Automation Conference) in San Diego in June 1994. Its main features include automatic connection between the processor and peripheral devices, generation of sequential code from a concurrent description, and synthesizing device drivers. Its inputs Verilog and outputs a hardware netlist needed to connect the hardware components together and the software program to run on the processor. The main topics include the interfacing problem between hardware and software components, scheduling under timing constraints, and partitioning of functionality.</P>
