The Open Core Protocol's unique flexibility, configurability and scalability characteristics enable integrators to build complex systems for high-performance domains A complete standardization process ...

Many design organizations are evolving their flows to an Executable Live Specification (ELS) driven methodology and making huge gains in designer productivity because of increased and coherent ...

Network-on-Chip is a very active field of research of the recent years. Compared to classical bus-based communication schemes, it implies innovative mechanisms as well as new ways of wrapping ...

With more IP components and growing time to market pressures, designers are looking for a way to build and update SoC designs easily. IEEE1685 (IP-XACT) was designed to fit this requirement and ...

Second of two parts: The creation of tools and standards for IP integration is progressing at a snail’s pace, but there is hope. New standards and fabrication methodologies may cause a disruption. IP ...