The Open Core Protocol (OCP) is a core-centric protocol that comprehensively describes the system level integration requirements of intellectual property (IP) cores. The flexible nature of the ...

In most design companies, the chip-level physical implementation teams responsible for design floorplanning in place and route (P&R) environments also manage top-level physical verification from the ...

Toshiba Semiconductor Company decided to widely adopt OCP as the host interface for in-house IP cores. OCP, which is standardized by OCP-IP, is the specification standard host interface for these ...

Verification planning is an important and integral part of verification, irrespective of the size of the system. About 70% of the design cycle time is spent on verification; with proper verification ...

Chip and system developers once considered verification as a secondary activity following the main challenge of design, with the “Designer” playing the central role in a design's success. This notion ...