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SoCs: Thirst for smarter devices
Every year the innovation behind Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) seems to make great strides forward. Semiconductor manufacturers are laying down more transistors, enabling designers to make more complex systems. As Intellectual Property (IP) blocks keep emerging, designers are gaining a bigger bag of parts to select from. Meanwhile, tool designers are innovating better ways for more effective SoC development. All these factors are helping produce affo...
preview: http://www.embedded-computing.com   date: 3/21/2008

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Systems-on-a-Chip - Intellectual Property Protection and Licensing Issues
Systems-on-a-chip (''SOC'')intellectual property (patents,trade secrets,copyrights,trademarks)is an important business asset,both virtual components as well as complete devices.Customers,potential lenders and acquirors will look carefully at such intellectual property to determine if the company is a good potential business partner or investment.
preview: http://www.fenwick.com   date: 5/16/1998

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The Wishbone II transaction bus: Another grade of speed
Wishbone specifications have been released by OpenCores and Silicore with the aim to provide a standard IP core interconnection scheme to fulfill requirements of modern System-on-Chip (SoC) designs, including CPUs, DMA engines, memory interfaces, peripheral interfaces, and so on. The andEuros company has used the Wishbone specification since its inception and has developed an improved version of the Wishbone bus, called Wishbone II, to propose...
preview: http://www.mil-embedded.com   date: 5/9/2008

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Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP)
OCP-IP is a ground-breaking industry association dedicated to making a common standard for intellectual property core interfaces, or sockets, that facilitate 'plug and play' SOC design. To make complex SOC design a reality for a broader audience, the industry needs a complete socket standard that everyone can use, no matter what their on-chip architecture is, or whose processor cores they're using.
preview: http://www.ocpip.org  

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Open-IP Consortium
Open-IP.org is a consortium of intellectual property industry stakeholders with the goal of creating a viable online marketplace for patents, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property.
preview: http://www.open-ip.org  

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SPIRIT Consortium
Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows One of the key challenges facing the semiconductor industry is to combine IP from various sources quickly and efficiently. This industry level cooperation is developing standards for IP description as well as tools that raise automation levels and cut costs while improving ease-of-use and increasing flexibility in IP selection and integration.
preview: http://www.spiritconsortium.com