IP reusable design methodology

Abstract

The rapid increase in IC design complexity and greater time-to-market pressure require improving design productivity and reducing product cycle time and development cost, therefore it is necessary to reuse complex pre-defined design and blocks develop new SOC design methodology to improve design productivity. In this paper, IP reusable design methodology is studied from module level and system level. Interface-based IP design methodology is studied firstly. According to the IP interface standards of Motorola Semiconductor Reuse Standards (MSRS), IP module standalone verification environment is built. Next, SOC system design methodology is analyzed and platform-based design methodology is studied from two sides: the development of integration platform and the SOC development based on integration platform. At last, the Mcore-based platform developed by Motorola is introduced as an example.