Experts at the table: As the industry migrates from small blocks to larger integrated blocks and subsystems, it is having an impact on IP companies. Just a few years ago, the (IP) business consisted ...

The development of analog IP blocks shows its own difficulties in that it is still unclear, today, what characteristics those blocks must actually have and how they should be approached. Particularly, ...

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.

This paper compares reconfigurable IP – a class of processing cores that provide high-performance, low power, and run-time flexibility – with other forms of intellectual property, and explains how ...