I am personally most familiar with that of NXP‘s (formerly Philips Semiconductors) which is perhaps the industry’s most advanced example of IP reuse in action and would like to relate its interesting story here. However the struggle, I have found European semiconductor companies not idly waiting for external standards to take hold before acting and far in advance of the rest of the world in their recognition of the need for internal IP development standards. They cannot afford the luxury that IP companies have, of focusing on one IP design they produce hundreds every year.Īs a result, a lot of semiconductor companies struggle with developing effective methods of IP design and reuse within their companies, if for no other reason than that the size of the design organization is immense and impossible to control by brute force. They are faced with the daunting challenge of generating their own differentiated IP and integrating that in their chips together with purchased third-party IP. Semiconductor companies are not as lucky as IP companies. With enough focus and resources, quality IP products can be consistently produced- sometimes by brute force means. IP companies typically focus all their energy into a very limited number of products, for example, a microprocessor or USB core. IP companies, however, have it a bit easier compared to semiconductor companies. The remaining IP companies in business today are here because they understood that quality matters and that making IP is a serious business. ![]() We have all heard many horror stories about companies getting burned by buggy IP cores and, fortunately, the Darwinian forces of natural selection have mostly removed them from the market. That’s not to say we are not making progress.
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