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A consumer reports methodology for IPPiyush Sancheti, Atrenta As an SoC designer, you’re probably frustrated by how IP (3rd party and internal) can hinder your design getting to tapeout. After all, IP is supposed to be the cure-all for increasingly-complex SoC designs, right? However, it’s turned into a sometimes endless, difficult series of IP fixes. Why? The answer is simple – it’s all about quality. Let’s think about this: the quality of today’s IP varies widely. SoC designers never know whether they will be able to use an IP block in multiple designs or if they will have a problem designing an IP block into just one design. SoC designers need better IP quality! They need a system to check the overall quality of the delivered IP, similar to a Consumer Reports analysis. And this analysis should enforce a quality standard so that the consumer has confidence that an IP block won't require difficult and time-consuming tweaks and fixes to work in the target design. To ensure IP quality, design projects need to create such a Consumer Reports methodology. How do we get there? Here are some suggestions.
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