Integrated Circuit Intellectual Property

The supplies of China’s Si intellectual property (IP) cores are mostly from the overseas companies, e.g., ARM, Synopsys, and others. The “China’s IC Industry Intellectual Property Annual Report,” which is published by the department of intellectual property of China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA) and Shanghai Silicon Intellectual Property Exchange Inc., introduces the annual status, including the applications, reuse and service platforms, of IP cores. Si intellectual property cores (IP cores, or briefly IPs) refer to pre-designed and verified functional circuit modules in the design of ICs, including logic, circuit, or layout designs. With the development of VLSI design and CMOS manufacturing technology, SoCs are the products based on VLSI design and supported by the submicron/nano-scale technologies, IP cores, and standard IC modules with the capability of reuse and portable, as well as hardware and software co-design.