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Automating the Integration Workflow with IP Centric Design

Thursday, March 7, 2024 1:30 pm — 3:00 pm

During a project, subsystem and full-chip integration plays a crucial role. Integration can be particularly challenging on large SoCs with distributed teams due to complexity of the integration process, multi-site infrastructure issues, as well as the need to collaborate across multiple time zones. Often, integrators must integrate design blocks delivered by distant teams on which they do not possess any expertise. This causes long lead times with the integration process, repeated debugging of similar issues, and a perpetual state of missing key integration milestones. With IP-centric design and the use of "IP aliases," we propose a methodology that provides a streamlined, controlled, quality-based, and transparent flow that helps teams reliably meet integration milestones and more easily debug integration issues.