Process · General Industry
IP reuse (Intellectual property reuse)
Building new chips largely from blocks already designed, verified and proven in silicon, whether internal or licensed. The main lever for shortening design cycle time as SoC complexity outgrows what teams can build from scratch.
- Also known as
- Design reuse, Block reuse
- Type
- Process
- Domain
- General Industry, Industry structure
Notes
Reuse only pays if the block is properly packaged with documentation, testbenches and integration collateral; a copied directory is not reuse.
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