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  Chip designers  have always reused circuitry, when possible, to shrink the project schedule, save resources, and reduce risk by using a silicon-verified design. Many types of  chip design  elements are common in diverse applications, and gradually these became packaged into libraries shared across all the teams in a company. The advent of register-transfer-level (RTL) descriptions made reuse much easier since logic synthesis tools could map the same code to many different silicon technologies. Rise of Reusing IP Chips In the 1990s, internal reuse was complemented by a robust commercial silicon intellectual property (IP) industry, in which both digital RTL cores and hard macros for analog elements were licensed to many different customers. Chip designers could focus their time and effort on differentiating features rather than common functions where custom  chip design  yielded no competitive advantage. Today’s large system-on-chip (SoC) designs contain hu...

  Introduction IP-XACT stands for Intellectual Property exchange-Advanced Configuration and Integration of IP components. It is an IEEE standard (IEEE 1685) that provides a standardized format for describing and packaging electronic design intellectual property (IP). Think of it as a universal language for communicating the characteristics, configurations, and connections of various IP components within a design. IP-XACT  streamlines the process of IP packaging and integration by providing a common framework for describing IP components. It enhances interoperability between different design tools, allowing for seamless exchange of design data across the entire design flow. With IP-XACT, designers can easily create, package, and reuse IP components, leading to improved productivity and reduced time-to-market. Key Concepts of IP-XACT Component A fundamental building block of IP-XACT , representing a functional unit or module within a design. At the core of IP-XACT is the concep...