Work remains, but the path to a single network is getting clearer. Exempla Healthcare’s three-hospital network uses an OC-3 ring to link about 15 buildings in the Denver area. “We run 225 different ...

With pressure to reduce both cost and time-to-market, many chipmakers are turning to intellectual property (IP) providers for existing, pre-verified hard and soft IP. While this approach greatly ...

The Past-The SOC design of yesterday typically had a 70-80% Customer Differentiated Design elements, and 20%-30% of IP and Fabric that was reused. This model allowed third party IP vendors wearing the ...

In not-so-distant past [2], less than 20 percent of high-end digital devices had any significant amount of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) content; by comparison, in the case of design starts in 2007, more ...

Despite the work done by various standards groups such as the VSIA, GSA IP group, and SPIRIT, IP integration still remains quite challenging. First, one has to select the right IP business model, ...