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People have been talking about semiconductor IP "reuse" for many years, but is IP really reusable as is? It's increasingly unlikely, according to Martin Lund (right), senior vice president of the SoC Realization Group at Cadence. In a recent keynote speech, Lund said that continuous changes in standards, technology, and requirements mean that IP cores must be configured in an "IP Factory" to meet the needs of a given system-on-chip (SoC).

Lund gave the keynote speech at the IP-SOC 2012 conference in Grenoble, France Dec. 4, 2012 (I "attended" the keynote via a recorded presentation). The speech was titled "Cloud and Mobility - Disrupting the IP Ecosystem."

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