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QIP (Quality Intellectual Property) Metric is an international standard, developed by Virtual Socket Interface Alliance (VSIA) 〔http://www.vsi.org VSIA documents〕 for measuring IP or SIP (Silicon intellectual property) quality and examining the practices used to design, integrate and support the SIP. SIP hardening is required to facilitate the reuse of IP in integrated circuit design. == Background and Importance == Application is driving the need for higher complexity and performance IP-based System-on-a-chip (SoC) design. One solution is the reuse of high quality IP. IP quality is the key to successful SoC designs, but it is one of the SoC’s most challenging problems. * QIP Metric allows both the IP designers and IP integrators to measure the quality of an IP core against a checklist of critical issues. * IP integrators make use of the IP cores into their own design and deliver final integrated circuit for an application, e.g. an integrated circuit designer of iPhone main processor IC (ARM architecture CPU) integrates other IP cores like USB 2.0, DSP, MP4 decoder, etc.,〔http://www.amazon.com/dp/0387740988 Reuse Methdology Manual〕 so that the additional features of USB 2.0, MP4 decoder, etc. can be easily embedded into the final IC. * The QIP consists of interactive Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with sets of questions to be answered by the IP vendor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quality Intellectual Property Metric」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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