Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) management, reuse, and change tracking are essential for efficiently creating chip designs based on proven building blocks, reducing your time-to-market, and ...

The folks at Synplicity have just introduced something they call System Designer. This is a device-independent intellectual property (IP) configuration and system-level assembly environment that has ...

Design IP is a key contributor to innovation in the semiconductor industry today. As the complexity and scale of silicon designs increase, so does design and verification time. Design IP enables ...

Synopsys is the leading vendor of electronic design automation software tools used for integrated circuit design, and the #2 licensor of chip design IP. While the six-week export restriction only ...

Intellectual property (IP) reuse is a strategy employed by design groups to create complex designs more quickly by leveraging the expert knowledge embodied in existing functional blocks. The ...

“Taking any of these assessments should be the first step in a business owner’s or inventor’s journey in determining how well they know their own IP assets, exposure thereof, potential mechanisms to ...

It seems like there’s an almost unlimited array of microcontrollers—from low-cost 8-bit varieties to high-performance 32/64 multicore systems. While some systems require little thought beyond cost or ...