Automated Qualification Flow for Soft IP

Reuse of semiconductor IP modules is widely perceived as a means to overcome the design gap [1], enabling the development of complex systems-on-chip under narrow manpower and time-tomarket constraints. However, for the IP business to be a success, many requirements related to the portability, maintainability, and quality of an IP module must be met. This paper presents an automated flow that addresses these aspects, and thereby assures the qualification of technologyindependent soft IP for efficient reuse. The production use of this flow, developed in the MEDEA+ project ToolIP, in both the design and the delivery of IP, is helping sci-worx to better address its customers’ needs and increase its own productivity at the same time.