Key Issues in Developing a Comprehensive Reuse System for Industrial Usage

The reuse process consists of several steps: • Design of reusable modules (Intellectual Properties, IPs): To ease the reuse of IPs design style guides should be considered already during this step. To check these style guides a code analyzer is needed. These analyzer should be adaptable to flow specific coding styles. The code analyzer will be used during the creation of IPs but also automatically during archiving IPs in the reuse repository. For each IP a testbench has to be created. Therefore, reusable testbench components can be reused and the testbench creation can be eased by a testbench generator. • Management of IPs: The developed reuse repository has to be efficient in archiving, classifying and retrieving components, while still being comfortable to use for the circuit designers. • Reuse of IPs: Spending more efforts into first step, the design of reusable modules, the reuse of IPs is more efficient.