Ensuring Successful Third Party Intellectual Property (IP) Integration

March 26, 2012

By Mohit Gupta, Open-Silicon, IP manager, Open-Silicon; Bernd Stamme, Director for Marketing and Applications at Kilopass Technology

Today’s complex ASICs often leverage open-market IP to take advantage of reuse of standard functional blocks, and thereby improve time to market and development efficiency.  However, the integration of that third-party IP, if done poorly, can lead to painful cost overruns and schedule delays.  To ensure proper IP core integration, Open-Silicon has developed a detailed and comprehensive process involving close collaboration with IP partners and the SoC design team.  This article will illustrate this process by showing how Open-Silicon and Kilopass worked together on a recent project to ensure success.

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