Semiconductor Engineering

IP Becoming More Complex, More Costly

Success in the semiconductor intellectual property (IP) market requires more than a good bit of RTL. New advances mandate a complete design, implementation, and verification team, which limits the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Streamlining Complex Semiconductor Designs With IP-XACT-Based Structured Assembly

Semiconductor design is rapidly evolving because technologies such as AI and machine learning (ML) applications push the boundaries of complexity and specialization. Modern chips require hundreds or ...
EDN

Using formal verification to create robust IP

Contemporary system-on-chip (SoC) design demands the use of pre-existing intellectual property (IP). It is simply not practical to develop many millions of gates of new logic from scratch while ...
Electronic Design

Functional Safety for Control and Status Registers

Today's SoCs include hundreds of complex IP blocks with millions of transistors each. CSRs are essential for managing these IPs, with some systems having up to a million CSRs. IP-XACT standards help ...
EDN

How to manage changing IP in an evolving SoC design

In a previous article, Getting started in structured assembly in complex SoC designs, an unexceptional system-on-chip (SoC) design was shown to contain hundreds of intellectual property (IP) blocks.
Electronic Design

Speeding the Process of Building IPs, Chiplets, and SoCs

How IP-XACT enables tool interoperability, multi-level abstraction, and accurate hardware/software interface alignment through structured metadata. Why integration automation is critical as complexity ...