Letter to the editor: IP remains critical (Hal Barbour, CAST)

(08/14/2007 11:26 AM EDT) -- EE Times

I received a plethora of e-mails regarding my recent article, entitled "Semi IP sector is a lost cause"

Then, I asked for the IP vendors themselves to respond to a set of questions. Here's one letter to the editor:

We've heard that the IP business is a total lost cause each of the last 14 years we've been successfully in business.

The fact that you and the industry are all still talking about "IP" proves it's essentialness: any design process aid so regularly getting such slanderous descriptions -- ranging from "risky" and "troublesome" to "totally worthless" -- wouldn't still be around if designers didn't really need it.

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