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What is the future for Intellectual Property?-July 30, 2009 |
A panel at DAC yesterday examined the future of IP. Panelists included Joachim Kunkel, VP & GM of the Solutions Group at Synopsys; CebaTech's president and CEO Ramana Jampala; Bryan Lewis, research VP and chief analyst at Gartner; Naveed Sherwani, president and CEO of Open-Silicon, SMSC VP engineering Jim O'Connor; and Francios Remond, group design methodology manager at ST Microelectronics. In a wide-ranging discussion with the audience, the panel explored the current nature of IP and its likely future.
One thread of the discussion involved the growing importance of software to IP; or to look at the issue in a slightly different way, software as IP. Both Jampala, whose organization builds system-level tools, and Kunkel, whose organization sells conventional silicon IP, observed that the distinction between hardware and software is getting blurred.
One thread of the discussion involved the growing importance of software to IP; or to look at the issue in a slightly different way, software as IP. Both Jampala, whose organization builds system-level tools, and Kunkel, whose organization sells conventional silicon IP, observed that the distinction between hardware and software is getting blurred.