Semiconductor Engineering

A New Strategy For Successful Block/Chip Design-Stage Verification

Achieving efficiency in integrated circuit (IC) design while maintaining design quality is not just a goal, but a necessity. Designers constantly strive to strike a balance between ever-tightening ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Assertion-Based Verification Smoothes The Road To IP Reuse

Theoretically, the use—and subsequent reuse—of intellectual property (IP) should ease the pain of verification. IP lets designers break up the project into self-contained functional blocks, each of ...
EDN

System-on-chip (SoC) design is all about IP management

For most system-on-chip (SoC) designs, the most critical task is not RTL coding or even creating the chip architecture. Today, SoCs are designed primarily by assembling various silicon intellectual ...
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 ...