IP licensing

Arm is reworking the DesignStart scheme it introduced several years, moving it under the umbrella of the broader Flexible Access program.

Arm has introduced a licensing model that makes it easier to try out cores during a design before committing to production.

To get others to adopt its GPU cores, Nvidia must quickly build partnerships with tool vendors and foundries that guarantee easy implementation.

Graphics chipmaker nVidia has said it plans to license as IP cores some of its technology in the hope of building up a customer base among other chipmakers and systems houses developing their own SoCs.

Accellera Systems Initiative has published version of 1.0 of its Soft IP Tagging standard for adding licensing information to RTL and other design files.

ARM has decided to put together a package deal for some of the components that will let prospective customers implement a multiprocessor subsystem in a single SoC design