Foundries and the dawn of an open IP era

Author

Chiang, Shang-Yi

Author_Institution

Taiwan Semicond. Manuf. Co., Taiwan

Volume

34

Issue

4

fYear

2001

fDate

4/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

46

Abstract

Independent intellectual property (IP) providers began emerging in the late 1990s. The growing complexity of SOC (system-on-a-chip) technology dramatically increases design loading and creates the need for verified third-party cores to simplify multifunctional chip designs. Chip foundry companies play a key role in providing the IP hard cores and expediting design migration to smaller geometries in silicon-verified IP cores. As a result, foundries stand at the focal point of an impending open IP era that will facilitate the virtual re-integration of such value-adding activities as system design, IC design, third-party IP and electronic design automation (EDA). By serving as a virtual re-integrator, chip foundries will reverse the fragmentation of the IC industry and form the keystone in an efficient value-creation network

Keywords

electronic design automation; electronics industry; industrial property; integrated circuit manufacture; technological forecasting; chip foundries; design migration; electronic design automation; geometry; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit industry fragmentation; intellectual property; multifunctional chip designs; silicon-verified cores; system design; system-on-chip; value-adding activities; value-creation network; virtual reintegrators; Chip scale packaging; Computer aided manufacturing; Costs; Electronic design automation and methodology; Foundries; Logic; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Random access memory; Time to market;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.917536

Filename

917536