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 ...

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.

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 ...

A well-repeated truism throughout the semiconductor industry is that chip design verification is complex and often takes up the largest portion of a design project’s schedule –– sometimes as much as ...