Second Chance to Sign Up for DAC IP and SOC Design Roundtable and Breakfast
There’s still time to sign up for the IP and SOC Design Roundtable and breakfast at DAC next month in Anaheim that’s being sponsored by Tensilica, Sidense, ChipEstimate.com, and Synopsys. (Sign up here.) EDN’s Executive Editor Ron Wilson is moderating. I expect it to be interesting. Here are the first three big questions we’ll be addressing:
1. Incorporating third-party IP in a systematic way implies a systematic search for candidate IP. Is there any good method for (a) establishing search criteria and (b) actually finding all the good candidate IP offerings for evaluation?
2. How do you go about systematically evaluating candidate IP? Can you build a quantitative comparison, and if so what should the parameters be?
3. Once you select a piece of IP, experience says that integration and verification will always be a joint effort between user and vendor. Can you define a methodology for this joint effort, or does the flow depend on what problems are discovered when?
Here are the questions I’ve suggested:
1. Is pushbutton IP integration just a pipedream? An ideal to be approached but never fully achieved?
2. What sort of issues and problems hinder pushbutton IP integration? How can we circumvent these?
3. Just how difficult is IP integration for your customers?
4. What are the issues surrounding software IP integration such as drivers, stacks, and operating systems?
Be sure to join us on June 11 from 8 am to 9:30 am in the Carmel Room at the Anaheim Hilton on the 4th floor and bring a question or two of your own.
