Technology for IP reuse and portability

Discusses the value of reuse from a system house's point of view and outlines the industry challenges caused by shorter time frames and increased complexities. The author has spent close to 30 years dedicated to the design and use of silicon and related design methodologies. He pioneered standard-cell libraries for silicon design and introduced the customer-owned tooling (COT) flow to enable component reuse and control the movement of intellectual property.