An IP storm?
By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor -- 6/23/2005
EDN
The continuously increasing number of components that silicon vendors are fitting onto a single chip has been driving the need for a correlating increase in developer productivity. Designers are increasingly acquiring IP (intellectual property) from other sources and incorporating it into their designs as a strategy to enable them to more quickly complete designs and focus their engineering resources on their core competencies. Michael Kaskowitz, general manager of Mentor Graphics' IP division, characterizes IP as prepackaged design services that allow a development team to use outsourced engineering resources to gain a shorter development cycle.
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