EDN

IP quality lies beyond compliance testing

Compliance testing can reveal a great deal about whether an IP (intellectual-property) core functions according to the standard specifications, but does it really answer the most important question in ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Why IP Quality Is So Difficult To Determine

Differentiating good IP from mediocre or bad IP is getting more difficult, in part because it depends up on how and where it is used and in part because even the best IP may work better in one system ...
Semiconductor Engineering

7 Ways to Assess Semiconductor IP Quality

Design teams today are struggling with the quality of semiconductor intellectual property. These teams want first-pass success for SoC creation, but that is becoming increasingly difficult to ...
EDN

Demonstrating ASIC IP performance and quality demands an FPGA-neutral design flow

Companies designing new system-on-chip (SoC) products are subject to ongoing market pressure to do more with less and achieve higher returns. The result is shrinking engineering teams, reduced design ...
Electronic Design

VSIA’s Quality IP Metric Gains Hard-IP Extension

Version 3.0 of the VSI Alliance’s (VSIA’s) Quality IP (QIP) metric, which includes the hard IP extension, is now publicly available. In addition to the public release of the hard IP extension, VSIA is ...