Many small and large design teams use third-party IP (intellectual property) to accelerate SOC (system-on-chip) design by importing functional blocks, such as data converters, PLLs, Ethernet PHY ...

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.

IP core providers are increasingly aware of the need to protect their investment from either unintended or unlicensed usage of their IP core blocks. This would require identification of IP core 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 ...

In today’s complex system-on-chip (SoC) design flows, intellectual property (IP) blocks are everywhere—licensed from third parties, leveraged from internal libraries, or hand-crafted by expert teams.