Parameterized IP core design

In the era of Systems-on-Chip (SoC), in order to reduce product cycle time and development cost, people have developed an IP-based SoC design methodology. However, this new methodology raises more issues for IP core creation. In order to make an IP core more flexible for SoC, the core should be configurable. Such configurability requires a new focus on "parameterized IP core". In this paper, we describe the IP core reconfiguration mechanism, define two main types of IP core parameters (static parameters and dynamic parameters), and focus on parameterization, one proposed solution to IP core reconfiguration.