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The VSIA was created in 1996 by worldwide leaders in semiconductor, semiconductor IP (SIP) and EDA companies to help the industry define and address the challenges of SoC development. Since that time, the VSIA has created more than 20 documents, specs and standards focused on SIP integration. The most widely adopted of these documents, the QIP Metric, has been downloaded and adopted by leading IP companies and integrators located throughout the world. The VSIA has also created documents and standards addressing IP Protection through tagging and encryption and IP Transfer and as these products mature, we expect to see the same high level of interest and adoption from the industry.
VSIA specifies "open" interface standards, which will ease the integration effort required to incorporate IP cores into a system-on-chip (SoC) at both the functional and the physical level. This will allow IP providers to productize and maintain a uniform set of IP deliverables, rather than requiring them to support numerous sets of deliverables needed for the many unique customer design flows. Providing a common set of deliverables can significantly reduce development time and costs for the IP integrator.
Wherever possible, VSIA will begin standards development work utilizing existing defacto standards or other open or proprietary data formats donated by companies, individuals or groups. Additionally, VSIA works with a variety of other organizations to minimize overlap and support complementary efforts. Only when there is no other standard does VSIA develop new standards for the industry. VSIA focuses primarily on addressing the technical aspects of IP integration challenges.
*The term IP core is synonymous with Virtual Component (VC),
which is also used in VSIA documents.
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