Plenary speaker: “The pig in the poke? - Strategies to avoid unpleasant surprises with IP on your SoC”

Developing an SoC and meeting the profitable market window just requires the intense use of pre-verified functional blocks, either “homegrown” or coming from external IP providers. The fast growing 3^rd party IP market place is the direct consequence of this. While we can see significant changes in the kind of IP and its distribution models over time, the main concerns of an SoC designer remains the same: Will the IP work as anticipated, and how much time can I really save by using such a “Lego building brick” rather than developing the functionality from scratch? The talk will briefly compare the IP market and its maturity with the EDA market and address the change of requirements to IP over time. The trend towards next gen IP demands will be addressed. From this background the author will share important learnings to help users avoid the most common pitfalls when designing-in the IP into their next complex SoC.