A system to validate and certify soft and hard IP

With the increasing use of Intellectual Property (IP) in the semiconductor industry, the demand to verify IP for quality is high. This paper describes ipscreen, a software tool that aims to both validate and certify IP. Although extendable to all kinds of flows, checks and commercial tools, ipscreen has been primarily designed to comply with the standards that designs produced within STMicroelectronics must adhere to. Both soft and hard IP are targeted.