• The Free-IP Project
  The Free-IP project is an effort to make quality IP available to anyone. You can download some logic blocks that can be used in making ASIC's and FPGA's.

• Open Cores
  OpenCores is a loose collection of people who are interested in developing hardware, with a similar ethos to the free software movement.

• Design & Reuse
  Design and Reuse provides a global collaboration network for sharing design resources in the electronics SoC inductry.

• VSI Alliance
  VSIA is formed with the goal of establishing both a unifying vision for the chip industry and the technical standards required to enable the most critical component of the vision: the mix and match of Intellectual Property (IP) cores from multiple sources.

• Virtual Component Exchange
  VCX is a unique provider of software and e-commerce solutions to organisations involved in acquiring, using, managing and distributing Intellectual Property.

• MiBench
  MiBench is a free, commercially representative embedded benchmark suite, developed by a group of people from the University of Michigan.

• IFIP VLSI-SoC 2003

• International Conference on VLSI

• IEEE SoC Conference

• IP-Based SoC Design Conference

• Design Automation Conference

• Design Automation and Test Europe

• Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Related Press on IP

• Repositories called linchpin of widespread design reuse
  EEdesign, March 21, 2000

• Interest in analog IP outpaces execution
  EEdesign, February 11, 2003

• What IP really means
  EDN Access, August 5, 1999

• Vendors must support IP reuse in SoC
  EETimes, December 19, 2002

• Intellectual Property Reuse - A New Business Model
  D&R Industry Article, 2002

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