Decreasing Risk When Selecting Third-Party Semiconductor IP

CAST president Hal Barbour spoke during the IP-SoC Day, a series of talks organized by D&R at the 49th DAC in San Francisco. 

Hal described the importance of selecting the best IP cores for each specific project, and gave tips on how best to do this. The several examples in the talk include specific points about choosing processors and image/video compression cores, plus comments on business terms and IP vendor reliability.